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That's the way I prefer to use i3 on Linux, and it would be nice to find something like that for OSX.
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I wish Apple would fully commit to tiling. We now have a situation where you can make an app full screen, if it supports it. Or you can have two apps side-by-side, if both apps support that. You can't go 'almost' full-screen - as in 'full-screen, but leave me the menubar' without something like Spectacle. I'm not even sure if keyboard shortcuts are available for split-screen, or if you can split two windows from the…
Hm? The menu bar exists in fullscreen apps. Move your mouse to the top and it will appear.
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I used to use bspwm, but ended up moving back to i3wm. While i3wm is not perfect, I always found it to be more practical than bspwm. The ability to stack, for example, is very nice. What's the thing that you really like about bspwm? As much as I wanted to really like bspwm, when it came to using it for work, I just found it lacked something.
Curious, what issues do you have with i3? Have been using it for a few years, really hits the sweet spot of easy-config + awesome functionality (stacked terminal windows with remote server load averages piped through title bar are a real nice-to-have for example). Floatable dock (i.e. scratchpad) is also pretty handy for skype, music player, notes, etc. Only issue that's really bothered me is a minor one: with stacke…
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.
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
It's not obvious from the Amethyst page that it's open source: https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst (looks to be the MIT licence)
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
Long term amethyst user here, this looks really awesome. OUt of the box i feels much more like some of the linux tiling window managers and less like a hack.
Hammerspoon is a less complicated fork of it: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon
My config: https://github.com/colindean/mjolnir-config
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
I'd be curious to know how this software compares with Amethyst. I've also been using Amethyst for some time with no problems, but it is sometimes a bit sluggish. I have so far assumed this has more to do with unavoidable limitations in the OS X gui ecosystem. It is written in Objective-C, is available on homebrewa and has a binary distribution available, provides a gui configuration manager, and seems to include all…
It's been a long time since I've actually written any C++, but briefly looking through the code it looks like it's making some of the same assumptions I made that resulted in some strange problems like the dreaded fullscreen bug (https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst/issues/254). That said, some of those assumptions were made 3 OS X versions ago so things might have improved.
It does, however, look a lot lighter weight than Amethyst is, and it looks like it does a better job at aggressively caching. It also supports binary space partitioning, which Amethyst doesn't support yet (https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst/issues/255). If I'm reading it correctly, though, that's the only thing it supports.
All in all, it seems like a great project. We could probably learn some things from each other, and I expect both projects would be the better for it.