Kwm, tiling window manager for OS X

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Post by tbassetto » Mon, Dec 21, 2015, 2:33 PM UTC

Kwm, tiling window manager for OS X
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Re: Kwm, tiling window manager for OS X

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Post by sillysaurus3 » Tue, Dec 22, 2015, 9:23 AM UTC

Screenshots, gifs, and videos of this in action would probably help clear up some confusion.

Re: Kwm, tiling window manager for OS X

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Post by mkagenius » Tue, Dec 22, 2015, 9:34 AM UTC

Just tried it. On the 24 inch monitor, I had 3 windows open and it perfectly tiled them. I used to use divvy and it was all manual, so this is great improvement. Plus one for auto focus.

Note: In case someone is wondering, to give accessibility access, check the checkbox for terminal in the security and privacy --> accessibility settings

Re: Kwm, tiling window manager for OS X

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Post by sergiotapia » Tue, Dec 22, 2015, 9:45 AM UTC

See also Spectacle: https://www.spectacleapp.com/

Maybe not the most configurable but in return you get something that works out of the box and doesn't require you to read 38 pages of README.

Re: Kwm, tiling window manager for OS X

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Post by preek » Tue, Dec 22, 2015, 9:49 AM UTC

sergiotapia wrote: post #4

See also Spectacle: https://www.spectacleapp.com/ Maybe not the most configurable but in return you get something that works out of the box and doesn't require you to read 38 pages of README.

I'm a long time user of a similar tool called Divvy[1]. However both these tools are _not_ tiling window managers. They help us scale Windows manually by providing customizable shortcuts. A tiling window manager would take care of that automatically. Popular examples are i3[2] and XMonad[3].

As a user of both Linux and OSX, having no access to a real tiling WM is probably the biggest downside to me from an end users perspective.

1. https://mizage.com/divvy/

2. https://i3wm.org/

3. http://xmonad.org/

Re: Kwm, tiling window manager for OS X

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Post by noja » Tue, Dec 22, 2015, 9:56 AM UTC

On Linux and Windows I can make the current window occupy the left of the screen using Super+L, and the right side of the screen using Super+R. I rarely need more than this, in fact I find more than two or three windows distracting for most of my normal tasks.

Re: Kwm, tiling window manager for OS X

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Post by superuser2 » Tue, Dec 22, 2015, 9:59 AM UTC

I cannot give the binary access to OSX Accessibility because it is not an app bundle. It's greyed out in the System Preferences dialogue. Was anyone able to make it work?

Re: Kwm, tiling window manager for OS X

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Post by jcalonso » Tue, Dec 22, 2015, 9:59 AM UTC

Worth mentioning Amethyst for OS X, I've been using it for a year with a 3 monitor setup with no problems.

https://ianyh.com/amethyst/ and https://github.com/puffnfresh/Honer.app

Re: Kwm, tiling window manager for OS X

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Post by james_eaton » Tue, Dec 22, 2015, 10:11 AM UTC

sergiotapia wrote: post #4

See also Spectacle: https://www.spectacleapp.com/ Maybe not the most configurable but in return you get something that works out of the box and doesn't require you to read 38 pages of README.

KWM appears to offer significantly more funcionality than Spectacle, so a longer README is perhaps justified.

Re: Kwm, tiling window manager for OS X

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Post by fit2rule » Tue, Dec 22, 2015, 10:12 AM UTC

superuser2 wrote: post #7

I cannot give the binary access to OSX Accessibility because it is not an app bundle. It's greyed out in the System Preferences dialogue. Was anyone able to make it work?

Give Terminal.app access, and launch kwm from the terminal ..