Apps that won't shrink

Some apps refuse to get smaller than a certain size. macOS doesn’t say what that size is in advance, so Shoji learns it.

How it works

1. Learn. When an app refuses a size, Shoji remembers the smallest size it accepted.
2. Make room. The lines between windows move just enough to give that app its minimum size, as long as every other window still fits.
3. Float when it can’t fit. If there’s no way to fit the window where it would go, it’s placed in the middle of its screen at its own size, and the other windows tile as if it weren’t there.

The first time Shoji meets such an app, it finds out while moving the window and plans again straight away, so the window gets its room (or floats) in the same moment.

Shoji never reorders your windows to make one fit. If you want a large app to be the primary window, swap it there yourself.

Example

An app that won’t go below 952 × 732 points opens first on a 1470-point-wide MacBook screen. It keeps 952 points, and the next window gets the remaining space. Opened third instead, it wouldn’t fit under the window above it, so it floats.

See and forget learned sizes

Settings → Apps → Apps that can’t shrink lists every app Shoji has learned, with its size. Any means that side has no known limit.

Click Forget All to clear the list. Shoji will learn them again as needed.

The list holds only app names and sizes. It’s stored in Shoji’s preferences on this Mac, isn’t synced to iCloud, and is never sent anywhere.