Manage windows on multiple displays

Use 1 Moom

In Moom’s preferences, click Custom then + (bottom left) to create a new shortcut. Set it to Move & Zoom and fill the right side of the grid. Click the box to the top right of the grid and press

≈+ Alt+‘. Now when you use that shortcut, the current window will resize to fill the right half of the display.

2 Move between displays

Create a second shortcut and set its behavior to Move to Other Display. Click the rightmost button in Direction and then enable “Loop through displays.” Set the shortcut to ≈+ß+‘. Each time you press this key combo, the current window will move to the next display, eventually coming full circle.

3 Test and expand

Open a Finder window and press the shortcut from step 2 a few times. Try interchanging it with the shortcut from step 1. Open Mail and put it on your Mac’s second screen, open a new message by pressing ç+N, and move it to your other screen. Powerful, huh? Now add any other shortcuts you want.

4 Use BetterTouchTool

You can add similar functionality to a trackpad. In BetterTouchTool, select Trackpads, click Add New Gesture and set the gesture to 5 Finger Swipe Right. Click the Predefined Action pop-up and pick Move Window to Next Monitor. Just as with Moom, performing this gesture repeatedly will take a window full circle.

5 Move and resize

BetterTouchTool offers two more actions for moving a window between displays: Maximize Window to Next Monitor makes it as big as possible (but doesn’t switch it to full-screen mode); Center Window on Next Monitor centers the window on the next screen as soon as it’s moved there.