Resizing
Windows start with equal shares of the screen. Make one bigger and its neighbors make room.
Drag an edge
Section titled “Drag an edge”Drag the edge between two tiled windows, just as you’d resize any Mac window. The windows on the other side of that edge shrink or grow to fit, and the layout stays tidy.
Dragging an edge on the outside of the screen does nothing; only edges shared with another window move.
With the keyboard
Section titled “With the keyboard”| Shortcut | What it does |
|---|---|
| ⌃⌥= | Make the active window bigger |
| ⌃⌥- | Make the active window smaller |
| ⌃⌥0 | Give every window on this screen an equal size again |
Each press moves the window’s shared edges a small step, in every direction it can grow or shrink.
When a window can’t grow or shrink any further, a short Maximum size reached or Minimum size reached notice appears near the bottom of the screen with your Mac’s alert sound. (The sound follows System Settings → Sound, so it’s silent if you’ve turned alerts off.)
Sizes stay put
Section titled “Sizes stay put”The sizes you set stay when windows are swapped, opened or closed. They belong to the positions, not the windows: swap two windows and each takes on the size of its new place.
Sizes are remembered separately for each screen and each macOS Space, so a Space with different windows keeps its own sizes.
Reset sizes
Section titled “Reset sizes”Press ⌃⌥0, or click Reset sizes on the layout preview in the menu bar panel. The button only appears while that screen has custom sizes.
Limits
Section titled “Limits”Shoji never makes a window smaller than a usable size, or smaller than its app allows. If an app refuses to shrink, the edge stops where that app’s minimum is. See Apps that won’t shrink.