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I always used Divvy for this, but IIRC it's paid only. Looks like a nice start.
I'm wondering if Divvy is going to be hit by this patent holder: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14333957 This project seems safe, as the UI doesn't show a preview grid you can drag over.
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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…
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I'm wondering if Divvy is going to be hit by this patent holder: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14333957 This project seems safe, as the UI doesn't show a preview grid you can drag over.
According to that thread's comments the patent was granted in 2011 whilst Divvy was around in 2010, so hopefully it's safe.
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
This tool reduces my cognitive load.
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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…
Funny that you mention 'ancient window management'. Tiling window managers are basically a continuation of terminal muxing and are thus more ancient than stacking window managers. Personally, I think going hybrid (stacking window management + spectacle/magnet.me) is the way to go. Best of both worlds :)
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
I always used Divvy for this, but IIRC it's paid only. Looks like a nice start.
Author here. I actually started this project after buying Divvy. Divvy has many more features but I could never set it up just right . In particular I found no way to use the grid feature without the mouse (other than assigning shortcuts to pre-defined layouts). So I scratched my own itch and created Keypad Layout as a simple no-frills replacement that works exactly the way I want it to.
I always used Divvy for this, but IIRC it's paid only. Looks like a nice start.