Mental Note to Self - Command-Dragging Windows

I’ve learned a lot of Mac Keyboard shortcuts over the years - but one that I never seems to stick in my head is the Command-Drag for windows.

If you Hold Command and Drag a Window then you can move that window around without “losing focus” (as developers say) on the current window. (even if the window belongs to an application that is not currently the front application.)

This means you can muck around with semi-obscured windows without having to switch apps.

An even more impressive feature is that you can do other mouse actions using this method - so you can drag-and-drop data from a window behind into the front window - all without having to leave the current window.

This has been in the Mac OS long before Mac OS X.

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