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Hey, Amethyst dev here. Love seeing this on the front page. I’ve seen a few comments mention it here and there, but I’m swooping in with my semi-regular reminder that you don’t nee…

This is correct. I can only speak to macOS, but window management in this case is actually built on something entirely distinct from the actual system window manager. It utilizes a…

At a guess, I would expect kwm to be faster, but probably less far along than Amethyst in terms of features/stability. It's been a long time since I've actually written any C++, bu…

I haven't had a chance to try reverse engineering the APIs, but on the surface nothing has changed with the accessibility framework, which means we're not going to get much progres…

Yeah, there's already an issue to track that ( https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst/issues/129 ), but in general it seems like people want more flexibility in defining how they want t…

Gah! I'll keep trying to see if I can reproduce. I really appreciate you finding something deterministic, though! This bug is slowly driving me mad.

Window spacing is actually in the works for Amethyst. It just has some issues because some windows just don't size exactly. Terminal windows, for example, only size in increments o…

Well, Amethyst can float windows so I wouldn't call it a tiling-only WM, but there's a lot of reasons I prefer it over floating window managers. I'm really lazy and want software t…

Not yet. I've toyed with different ways of doing this, but haven't really decided on one that I really like. Maybe I should just go the road of other window managers that expose a …

Fascinating. I hadn't realized Mjolnir wasn't under development anymore. I'm glad to see the community is keeping it going, though.

You can theoretically turn off window shadows. https://github.com/puffnfresh/toggle-osx-shadows

That is generally correct. I wrote a longer comment about this but SizeUp is about manually managing windows and Amethyst is about letting software manage windows for you. It's gen…

That's something I want to do. I want basically anything you can do with key commands to be possible via the mouse. Some of that comes out of the box with OS X, but some of it (lik…

That is an interesting idea. I'm not actually sure whether or not it's possible. Unfortunately I'm on a plane and my phone won't let me make github issues. I'll add one to look int…

A feature matrix isn't a bad idea (and I opened an issue to track https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst/issues/267 ), but it's kind of hard to compare as they are such different pieces…

This is a woefully confusing decision on my part. There are actually two features: mouse-follows-focus and focus-follows-mouse. The former just means the cursor moves along with wi…

It's on the list of things I want to do. I should have used a tree structure off the bat and done something like binary space partitioning.

I would 100% recommend Mjolnir as an actively-developed Slate alternative. sdegutis has a solid history of writing great window management stuff.

It is super buggy for fullscreen apps. Unfortunately, I have this superpower (or curse) of not being able to reproduce bugs. Every time I get near a coworker's computer, whatever t…

I'm the Amethyst developer. I'm happy to answer any questions people have. I'm hopping on a cross-country plane flight in about an hour, but I have a layover. I'll try get back to …

What about Amethyst didn't fit your requirements? I know it's still buggy, I'm just curious if there's any specific ones or if it's just generally not useful to you.

I haven't used SizeUp, but it looks similar to other tiling window managers in that they give you keyboard shortcuts to move windows around. Amethyst is modeled on xmonad which has…

I used to use ShiftIt all the time, but actually eventually moved to Slate. I wrote Amethyst because I got tired of manually moving windows, even if by keyboard shortcut, and got s…