Allow windows to maximize behind notch on newer MacBook Pros

[Tobbe]

There are a couple of issues about this already (#695, #827), but they've both been closed. And I think something has changed in MacOS, so I'm opening up a discussion about it.

Previous issues said it wasn't possible to place windows behind the notch. This is not the case now. By manually resizing a window I can make it be proper full screen. See photo below.

So maybe Rectangle could now just simply resize windows like as if they were manually resized?

If that doesn't work, I also found this blog post with a bunch of technical jargon I didn't understand 😅 But hopefully you do @rxhanson 😄
https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/Fullscreen-apps-above-the-MacBook-notch

[rxhanson]

Thanks for the feedback.

Although you can resize the window under the notch, the Accessibility API that Rectangle uses to place windows doesn't support that, unless there is a workaround that I'm unaware of.

I still don't have plans to add this in myself, but don't mind merging a good PR for it if someone has a good way to do it.

That post by Alin demonstrates moving the displayed portion of the screen below the notch (probably not what you're looking for?)

[Tobbe]

I want what Alin shows in this video

https://files.alinpanaitiu.com/parallels-full-notch-h264.mp4

And this one

https://files.alinpanaitiu.com/noteplan-full-notch-h264.mp4

Where the app truly fits the whole screen (and the notch covers parts of the app's UI)

But yeah, requiring disabling SIP isn't going to fly 🙁

[Tobbe]

I still don't have plans to add this in myself

Understood 👍
Thanks for taking the time to reply to my message! 🙂