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Re: Show HN: Phoenix – a macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript

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I have had a pretty stable setup using yabai[0] for my wm and skhd[1] for my hotkey daemon. Both are by the same dev and I have nothing but good things to say about them. Occasionally windows will get in a wonky state, but I have a hot key to reset them. It is usually stable for a week+ [0] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai [1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd

I've been using yabai and skhd for about a week, I was wondering what you are using for your menu bar? I'm not really sure about a suitable replacement for something like i3bar coming from Linux.

I have been using ubersicht[0]. The same developer of skhd/yabai has a dotfiles repo that I mostly copied his config from.

[0]https://github.com/felixhageloh/uebersicht

Re: Show HN: Phoenix – a macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript

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I have had a pretty stable setup using yabai[0] for my wm and skhd[1] for my hotkey daemon. Both are by the same dev and I have nothing but good things to say about them. Occasionally windows will get in a wonky state, but I have a hot key to reset them. It is usually stable for a week+ [0] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai [1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd

"Usually stable for a week" does not sound great..

I would generally agree, except in this case that makes it one of the more stable pieces of software I am running on my mac. When it happens I have a single hotkey mapped to restart the service which recollects all my windows and usually fixes anything that was going wrong in ~3-4 seconds.

Re: Show HN: Phoenix – a macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript

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I have good success with yabai: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

Yeah I’ll check it I it after the many testimonials here but m leery about having to disable system integrity protection even temporarily

I actually run it with SIP still active. Some features are disabled, but it still does everything I need it to.
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