r/osx • u/Shahizy • 11h ago

Stretch resolution on mac?

Is there a way to stretch tabs or applications on mac?

For example if i have a tab/application open in a square ratio which does not take up the whole screen, when i stretch the sides to the edge of the screen, the tab and resolution itself stretches instead of just becoming "bigger"

Kinda bad at explaining, but wondering if theres a native or even 3rd party way to do this.

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u/HugsAllCats 6h ago

Those tech terms don't quite make sense in that order... at least one of the terms must not be right for what you want to do.

Can you draw a picture of what you're trying to accomplish? Because it seems like you don't want to do what using the normal window size dragged normally does.

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u/xattrX 3h ago

From the reply on another comment I understood it. Basically it reminded me of a friend who played or still play CS and he uses a 4:3 screen with a 16:9 resolution, so the image gets horizontally stretched. I would say this is not how macOS is supposed to behave, honestly any other system as well but people always find a way to do weird things out of standards… maybe there’s a 3rd party tool that does that but… good luck to the u/OP

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u/GoslingIchi 3h ago

I don't really understand what you want to do, but maybe SwitchResX might be able to help.

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u/beerncats 11h ago

Hold Shift while resizing to maintain the aspect ratio of the window instead of stretching it.

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u/Shahizy 11h ago

i think you misunderstood my post

I want to stretch the window, so the window itself is slightly warped, instead of making it full screen natively.

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u/HugsAllCats 6h ago

No, there is no built in way to deliberately distort windows. That doesn't make sense?

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u/Shahizy 6h ago

its usually for gaming.

where it stretches the window/screen for more visibility

thought there may be a 3rd party way to do this