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- It's open source + free - Once you install it and learn the keyboard shortcuts you basically can forget it's there because it stays out of your way
I use Moom for this, it has a killer feature (for me) that I haven't seen anywhere else, the ability to leave n pixels between windows, and between windows and the edge of the screen.
I have to use a Windows 7 PC for work (proprietary software for a laser cutter) and have AutoHotKey running about 30 customer keyboard shortcuts, so when I get home to my Linux and Mac laptops I that I use for casual computer use I struggle to remember key combos for window management. Moom looks like it solves that problem by novel use of existing window manipulation buttons.
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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 tha…
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 own Magnet, Moom, Cinch and a few others. I always end up abandoning because the powerful keyboard features get in the way when you're in an actual workflow, and the basic ones make me reach for the mouse.
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
But really, what mac needs now is larger quit/minimize/maximize buttons on each window. Most of the times on Windows, I would just click on the corner of the screen, knowing that I'm clicking on the exit button automatically. Closing windows on Windows became much of a gesture. But as for the mac, I have to precisely click on the red button to close that window, or otherwise use CMD+W shortcut.
Some other default bindings would be useful.