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Re: Show HN: Keypad Layout Window Manager for Mac

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Post by zdw »

tnajdek wrote: post #6
AndrewHampton wrote: post #5

I'll drop in the customary link to hammerspoon: http://www.hammerspoon.org It has a couple libraries for window management. One is plug and play, the other is lower level. Here is my config for setting up a 2x2 grid: https://github.com/andrewhampton/dotfiles/blob/master/hammer...

Another one is called slate: https://github.com/jigish/slate Very flexible, my favorite feature is that configs can be written in JS, here's mine: https://gist.github.com/tnajdek/48ea2a2ccac365b91f29

Slate is my favorite as well - there's a fork that accumulated a bunch of patches over the years as the original author appears to have abandoned it:

https://github.com/mattr-/slate

Unfortunately, it was declared unmaintained as of a few days ago...

Re: Show HN: Keypad Layout Window Manager for Mac

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Post by tuananh »

hultner wrote: post #7

I can highly recommend kvm[1] for those of you who are interested in tiling window managers for macOS. Another pearl is Amethyst[2]. I've used both of them (and others such as xnomad) extensively for the past 5 years or so and must say that I'm very pleased. [1] https://koekeishiya.github.io/kwm/ [2] https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst

Another vote for Amethyst. Also tried kwm but it doesn't work as well as Amethyst. However, kwm potential is huge.

Re: Show HN: Keypad Layout Window Manager for Mac

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Post by jaequery »

i just need a window manager that performs the following for free:

- hotkey for full screeen window

- hotkey for center screen window

- hotkey for left/right half window

- hotkey for move window to prev/next monitor

- hotkey for resize window by mouse (a la bettertouchtool)

- hotkey for move window by mouse (a la bettertouchtool)

currently i'm using a combination of these to do the following, but i feel its a bit overkill when all i need are what i described above:

- bettertouchtool

- sizeUp

Re: Show HN: Keypad Layout Window Manager for Mac

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Post by ooqr »

tuananh wrote: post #13
hultner wrote: post #7

I can highly recommend kvm[1] for those of you who are interested in tiling window managers for macOS. Another pearl is Amethyst[2]. I've used both of them (and others such as xnomad) extensively for the past 5 years or so and must say that I'm very pleased. [1] https://koekeishiya.github.io/kwm/ [2] https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst

Another vote for Amethyst. Also tried kwm but it doesn't work as well as Amethyst. However, kwm potential is huge.

I've used Amethyst day-to-day on my work laptop for several months and overall I'm happy with it. It's a bit idiosyncratic, but that's more the fault of Apple for not making it easy to develop such a plugin.

It's strange that a company focused on good design and ease of use is beholden to ancient window management traditions such as manually dragging every single window into the dimensions you want. When you open and close terminal windows to various servers dozens of times a day, need a window open on the side with a site showing documentation on this or that, it just doesn't make sense to waste time doing something that could be automated.

Re: Show HN: Keypad Layout Window Manager for Mac

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Post by lloeki »

jaequery wrote: post #14

i just need a window manager that performs the following for free: - hotkey for full screeen window - hotkey for center screen window - hotkey for left/right half window - hotkey for move window to prev/next monitor - hotkey for resize window by mouse (a la bettertouchtool) - hotkey for move window by mouse (a la bettertouchtool) currently i'm using a combination of these to do the following, but i feel its a bit ove…

> for free

If you want it so badly, why not pay for the ones that exist?

Re: Show HN: Keypad Layout Window Manager for Mac

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Post by nevon »

hultner wrote: post #7

I can highly recommend kvm[1] for those of you who are interested in tiling window managers for macOS. Another pearl is Amethyst[2]. I've used both of them (and others such as xnomad) extensively for the past 5 years or so and must say that I'm very pleased. [1] https://koekeishiya.github.io/kwm/ [2] https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst

Been using kwm for the past 6 months or so. Amethyst never really clicked for me, and it didn't work very well with multiple spaces, which I am a big user of.

Kwm and khd (kwm does layouting, khd sets up keyboard shortcuts) are not the easiest to configure, and kwm can be extremely complex, but for me it's been the best window manager for Mac OS I've been able to find. I just wish that performance was better, and that it handled corner cases like small dialogs better.

Doesn't hold a candle to the ones available for Linux, but I blame Apple for that more than I blame the developers.

Re: Show HN: Keypad Layout Window Manager for Mac

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Post by hibbelig »

jaequery wrote: post #14

i just need a window manager that performs the following for free: - hotkey for full screeen window - hotkey for center screen window - hotkey for left/right half window - hotkey for move window to prev/next monitor - hotkey for resize window by mouse (a la bettertouchtool) - hotkey for move window by mouse (a la bettertouchtool) currently i'm using a combination of these to do the following, but i feel its a bit ove…

Phoenix can do this (https://github.com/kasper/phoenix). Hammerspoon can also do this (hammerspoon.org).

Phoenix is programmed in JS, it seems faster for me, has fewer features. (But what you want is there.)

Hammerspoon is programmed in Lua, it's slower (to start up at least), and it has more features. (I've got a "vi normal mode" config after Karabiner doesn't work with macOS Sierra.)

Re: Show HN: Keypad Layout Window Manager for Mac

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Post by lowboy »

tnajdek wrote: post #6
AndrewHampton wrote: post #5

I'll drop in the customary link to hammerspoon: http://www.hammerspoon.org It has a couple libraries for window management. One is plug and play, the other is lower level. Here is my config for setting up a 2x2 grid: https://github.com/andrewhampton/dotfiles/blob/master/hammer...

Another one is called slate: https://github.com/jigish/slate Very flexible, my favorite feature is that configs can be written in JS, here's mine: https://gist.github.com/tnajdek/48ea2a2ccac365b91f29

Yup been using Slate for a while now. I wrote a grid system for it that I find works well: https://github.com/jjt/ac-slater

Re: Show HN: Keypad Layout Window Manager for Mac

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Post by TomAnthony »

matt2000 wrote: post #10
raghavkhanna wrote: post #2

There's also spectacle ( https://www.spectacleapp.com/ ), however this seems worth trying out, especially due to the ease of remembering the layout config shortcuts

Came here to recommend spectacle too. I basically only use the keyboard shortcuts to send windows to the left half, or right half of the screen. If you hit them again it does 2/3rds or 1/3rds of that side of the screen which is helpful on lower resolutions. That pretty much covers me for window management.

Yeah - the simplicity of it, over something like this one posted, makes it much nicer. I also use for move windows to the other display.
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