Try it. Move your Steam window around. See how it snaps to the edges of your display(s)?

Why is Steam the only program (I know) that does that natively? I would love for ALL my Windows programs to do that (without installing 3rd party softwares/scripting).

EDIT : I’m on Win10.

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    On windows 11 I’m having a hard time finding apps that it doesn’t work with. Firefox, paint.net, inkscape, audacity… all work. And every single application made by microsoft also works

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    This used to be more common ~20 years ago when Steam first launched. Most modern applications seem to have abandoned this practice though.

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      Steam did this back on WinXP in the early 2000’s as well. To be clear, OP isn’t talking about dragging a window to the very left side of the screen and it snapping in place covering half the screen. They’re referring to any sized window retaining its aspect ratio but snapping to the exact edge of any side of the screen or taskbar.

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        I find this behavior annoying, I actually like to place windows in corners with a small margin

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    You’re talking about moving a window to the side to make it take up half of your display?

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      No. I know the Windows snapping to edge, which resizes the window to half screen. That’s not what I’m talking about here.

      All I want is any program window moved to neatly align with my screen edge and with other wondows without changing size, instead of me having to align them pixel-perfect.

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        Don’t worry friend. I know exactly what you’re referring to and I wish it was more common as well. I hate having to use that bit of brain power to appease my OCD and have the window be perfectly aligned to whatever edge I push it up against.

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          I’m not sure what behavior I’m missing, I’m playing around with this steam window and can’t find it. It snaps to the edge but not in the windows way?

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    I just wish Windows would do like Chrome OS does and give you a little detent when you move a window to the edge of the screen.