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Re: Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS

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I used to use tiling window managers on macOS and in the end it got a bit tiring that after every update something broke. It seems like all of them are fighting the system in some very brittle ways.

In the end I just learned some shortcuts that Apple provides for moving windows around. I still much prefer working on Linux, but this is at least usable and i do not have to fix it that often.

Re: Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS

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I used to be a heavy user of i3. It's very flexible and configurable, and you can do much more than just moving windows. But after I switched to Mac, I couldn't find a tiling window manager that was both feature-rich and stable. After trying several options, I just use Rectangle[1]. It's not a window manager; it only provides shortcuts for window placements like simply moving windows to left/right/top/bottom or split…

I too recommend Rectangle. It made transition from Linux significantly less painful.

Re: Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

yabai uses native macos spaces and generally requires sip to be disabled to have a good experience(windows can't be moved between spaces without) rift is essentially aerospace but implemented in a yabai style. yabai style meaning using low level, private apis and generally focusing more on performance. whereas aerospace prides itself on only using one private api. usage wise, aerospace and rift both use a virtual wor…

Does rift handle native MacOS tabs like the ones ghostty and finder use? I might give it a shot. I have been having a couple of issues with Aerospace lately.

Same. That's the worst part of Yabai

Re: Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS

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post #17

I used to be a heavy user of i3. It's very flexible and configurable, and you can do much more than just moving windows. But after I switched to Mac, I couldn't find a tiling window manager that was both feature-rich and stable. After trying several options, I just use Rectangle[1]. It's not a window manager; it only provides shortcuts for window placements like simply moving windows to left/right/top/bottom or split…

Similar experience and pov here -- but w/ Divvy^1 (not Rectangle). 1. https://mizage.com/divvy/

So this app you recommend is not open source and does the same thing as Rectangle?

Re: Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS

#46
post #35

This might not be sufficient for a lot of folks and I do notice sometimes a bit of struggle here and there, but for someone like me who mostly uses one widnow at a time on the Mac, or two screens when I have a external monitor setup along wiht my laptop, this thing kinda does it for me (but then I have never been a heavy "tiling" user at all) – https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/mac-help/mchl9674d0b0/...

Thank you, I had no idea it existed !

Re: Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS

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post #17

I used to be a heavy user of i3. It's very flexible and configurable, and you can do much more than just moving windows. But after I switched to Mac, I couldn't find a tiling window manager that was both feature-rich and stable. After trying several options, I just use Rectangle[1]. It's not a window manager; it only provides shortcuts for window placements like simply moving windows to left/right/top/bottom or split…

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Re: Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS

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post #17

I used to be a heavy user of i3. It's very flexible and configurable, and you can do much more than just moving windows. But after I switched to Mac, I couldn't find a tiling window manager that was both feature-rich and stable. After trying several options, I just use Rectangle[1]. It's not a window manager; it only provides shortcuts for window placements like simply moving windows to left/right/top/bottom or split…

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> feel the urge to come up with frequently wrong tidbits

Isn’t that a very subjective and personal preference. Why do you feel people’s reasons are not valid? You don’t have to convince everyone.

Re: Show HN: Rift – A tiling window manager for macOS

#49

I used to be a big user of tiling window managers but, more recently, I’ve discovered that the workflow of something like Moom is nicer in more situations.

The main reason I use Moom is being able to move and resize windows using nothing but the keyboard, which is something most tiling window managers completely ignore.
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