Windows

The Windows screen lets you snap and tile the window you’re working in — move it to a half of the screen, a corner, the center, or full screen — with a keyboard shortcut you choose, so you never have to drag and resize windows by hand.

What window management does

Dragging a window to exactly half the screen, then lining up a second window beside it, is fiddly and slow. Window management turns that into a single keystroke: press your shortcut and the window you’re in jumps to the left half, the top-right quarter, the full screen — whatever you assigned.

The actions always work on the window that’s currently in front, and they respect your screen’s usable space: the menu bar and the Dock are left alone, and on a multi-monitor setup the window snaps within whichever display it mostly sits on. Nothing is pre-set — you decide which arrangements you use often enough to deserve a shortcut, and assign keys to just those.

Assigning a shortcut

The screen lists every window action, grouped into Halves, Quarters and General. Each row shows the action’s icon, its name, and a button on the right where you set its shortcut. Every action starts unassigned — it does nothing until you give it a key combination.

Recording the keys

To give an action a shortcut, click its Record Shortcut button. It changes to Type shortcut… to show it’s listening — now press the combination you want, such as your Hyper Key plus an arrow key. As soon as you press a valid combination it’s saved, and the button shows the shortcut you chose.

A couple of things to know while recording:

• Your combination must include at least one modifier (⌘, ⌃, ⌥ or ⇧). A bare key is ignored and recording keeps waiting.
• Press Esc to cancel without changing anything.
• Press Delete or Backspace to clear the action’s current shortcut.

Changing or clearing a shortcut

To change a shortcut, click the button again and record a new combination — the old one is replaced. To remove a shortcut entirely, click the small x button that appears next to it (its tooltip reads Clear shortcut). The action stays in the list, just without a shortcut.

Halves

The Halves section snaps the focused window to fill exactly one half of the screen — handy for putting two windows side by side, or stacking two one above the other.

• Left Half — fills the left half of the screen.
• Right Half — fills the right half.
• Top Half — fills the top half.
• Bottom Half — fills the bottom half.

Quarters

The Quarters section snaps the window to a corner, filling one quarter of the screen — useful for arranging four windows in a grid.

• Top-Left Quarter — fills the top-left corner.
• Top-Right Quarter — fills the top-right corner.
• Bottom-Left Quarter — fills the bottom-left corner.
• Bottom-Right Quarter — fills the bottom-right corner.

General

The General section holds the whole-window actions.

• Maximize — grows the window to fill all the usable space on its screen, while still leaving the menu bar and the Dock visible. This is a resized regular window, not macOS fullscreen.
• Center — keeps the window’s current size and moves it to the middle of the screen. It doesn’t make the window bigger or smaller; it just centers it (shrinking it only if it was larger than the screen).
• Full Screen — toggles macOS’s native full screen for the window — the same thing the green button in a window’s title bar does, hiding the menu bar and Dock and giving the window its own Space. Press the shortcut again to leave full screen.

When a shortcut is already taken

Each key combination can belong to only one thing at a time. If you try to assign a combination that’s already used — by another window action, or by an app, system or trackpad action elsewhere in Uncapped — a Shortcut Already in Use message appears, telling you which one currently owns it and asking whether to reassign it.

Choose Reassign to move the combination to the new action — Uncapped removes it from whatever held it before, so a press always does exactly one thing. Choose Cancel to leave everything as it was.