Struggling to resize windows on macOS Tahoe? Here’s why.
https://noheger.at/blog/2026/01/11/the-struggle-of-resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe/
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Norbert Heger
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Hooray! Apple resolved the window resizing issues on macOS Tahoe! Or did they?
https://noheger.at/blog/2026/02/12/resizing-windows-on-macos-tahoe-the-saga-continues
That’s the price of adding a weird, purple-colored snake icon to a menu item…
#macOSTahoe
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@chrismessina@mastodon.xyz @stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social @gruber@mastodon.social Here you can also find a LaunchBar action for toggling menu icons. Have fun!
https://obdev.at/blog/evanesco-iconia/
Sure. Presenting search results that way makes so much sense… 🤦♂️
#macOSTahoe #MusicApp
Besides looking terrible in the first place, look at how poorly these pinstripes are implemented… But nobody cares.
Damn… now I cannot unsee it anymore.
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@cubeofcheese@mstdn.social Out-of-the-box macOS screen recording. Can be enabled in the Options menu.
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@tuparev@mstdn.social @tarunuday@mastodon.social It was just“Edit” before, if I remember correctly.
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@ptujec@mastodon.social @marioguzman@mastodon.social When your app uses the standard document management APIs (NSDocumentController in Cocoa and DocumentGroup in SwiftUI) you get that basically for free.
“Evanesco Iconia!”
https://obdev.at/blog/evanesco-iconia
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@Cykelero@mas.to You mean the transitions between green and yellow? I had to determine them manually after the scan, with Mouse Keys turned on for pixel-precise mouse positioning.
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@nikolausf@wien.rocks Und wieder Futter für’s Schweinderl…
„Daraus ergibt sich, dass das Internet kein rechtsfreier Raum sein kann“, sagte Pröll.
https://orf.at/stories/3426363
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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social This icon is absolutely gorgeous! But I’m afraid you won’t be able to use it as an app icon on Tahoe without macOS ruining it by chopping off its corners and applying an ugly glass effect to the border. So sad.
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@Cykelero@mas.to Excellent talk! You made a very good point about how clever it is that you can move a window even if you start your mouse drag in the resize area. And in fact, this not only works at the top edge but at all four edges of the window.
However, on macOS Tahoe this resize area now extends into the curvature of the rounded corner. You can see in this screenshot that the cursor still indicates a horizontal resize, even though it’s already inside the corner area, where you might expect to be able to resize diagonally. But if you try to do that, you will actually move the window.
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@tuomas_h@mastodon.social I couldn’t agree more! Unfortunately, even a Dock tile plugin is only a partial solution, because it affects just the icon shown in the Dock and the Command-Tab app switcher. But in Finder and in the app’s alert dialogs, we still get the app’s regular icon.