
In either mode, Shift-click on a window to get the opposite of the chosen behavior. Dennis Swaney, the Trash Can can’t be deleted from the Mac’s Dock, so this may be a work-around for you. In "Modern" mode, only the clicked window comes to the front. To fill in for DragThing’s Application Dock, I have now configured the Mac OS Dock to show only running applications, and to auto-hide on the left side of my screen. The new version requires Mac OS 8.6 or later with CarbonLib.

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In "Classic" mode, clicking on a window brings all the windows in that app to the front, just like it did in classic Mac OS. DragThing 4 from TLA Systems will be released on March 22, just two days before Mac OS X goes on sale. Siracusa released a 64-bit app, Front and Center, to bring the "classic" behavior to modern versions of macOS that dropped 32-bit support.įront and Center lets you control the window layering policy on your Mac. I was alone in a cold, barren world where I had to click on a Dock icon to switch to an app and bring all its windows to the front. Sadly, macOS Catalina’s lack of support for 32-bit apps finally killed the last of the apps that implemented this feature. I also appreciate the Mac OS X behavior in certain circumstances, so I was delighted to find apps that enable both behaviors, using Shift-click to override the default. My particular style of window management leans heavily on the classic behavior.

In Mac OS X (and macOS), only the window that you click comes to the front. In classic, when you click on a window that belongs to an application that’s not currently active, all the windows that belong to that application come to the front. Brining all of an app's windows to the front when clicking a single background window was a behavior of "classic" Mac OS:
