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Re: Kwm, tiling window manager for OS X

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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.

There seems to be a lot of choice regarding very approachable windows managers for OSX these days. I throw in Magnet (http://magnet.crowdcafe.com).

Re: Kwm, tiling window manager for OS X

#52
I tried almost every window manager for OS X. But due to the OS X itself. Some apps have the min window sizes constrain and can't fit in a small part of the display. They always go out side of the grid. This is the most annoying part.

BTW I remember someone made chrome (or another app) running under fullscreen mode in a window. Anyone knows how to do that?

Re: Kwm, tiling window manager for OS X

#55

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

Did the keyboard shortcuts work for you? I can't get them to work (even tried adding some flags to check whether they are being caught or not and they don't seem to reach hotkeys.so's code, ever, for me)

Not sure which, but some app I had open (I simply closed everything) was trapping the keycodes somehow. Weird (and mildly disturbing)

Re: Kwm, tiling window manager for OS X

#56

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 ..

That is even more insane from a security perspective than the whole accessibility api in general.

Re: Kwm, tiling window manager for OS X

#57
How many of these OS X WM replacements are configurable to use a 3-button mouse + a keyboard key for window management shortcuts?

I've used X11 for almost 30 years, and inherited a twmrc file at the very start which had the following mappings which have become muscle memory to me:

alt + mouse_left = move + raise

alt + mouse_middle = resize

alt + mouse_right = iconify

I've configured KDE to do this for years. I once tried switching to a mac, but between not being able to map the mouse buttons like that, and not having focus-follows-mouse. I ended up giving the Mac to my inlaws..

Re: Kwm, tiling window manager for OS X

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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…

Divvy just works for me. Really, the two most common shortcuts I use are "take up the right half" and "take up the left half". That accounts for 80% of my usage of anything like a tiling window manager. In third place is an alternative for "maximize" which isn't the OS X maximize. (Has a use for certain legacy programs, and also as an alternative to OS X fullscreen.) The next two most common operations are "take up the top half" and "take up the bottom half."

The devs were pretty responsive to my request, as well.

Re: Kwm, tiling window manager for OS X

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That screenshot is OS X? Anyone got any tips to achieve a look like that? I thought OS X customisation was basically dead.

If you look closely it appears to be a fullscreen iTerm2 running a fancy tmux powerline. Edit: From https://github.com/koekeishiya/kwm/issues/8#issuecomment-166... "The Apple menubar is hidden using the option that was added with El Capitan. I'm using the program nerdTool to create the illusion of a bar that you see in the screenshot."

I think that 'iTerm2' in the corner is just the name of the currently focused window.

Re: Kwm, tiling window manager for OS X

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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…

Divvy just works for me. Really, the two most common shortcuts I use are "take up the right half" and "take up the left half". That accounts for 80% of my usage of anything like a tiling window manager. In third place is an alternative for "maximize" which isn't the OS X maximize. (Has a use for certain legacy programs, and also as an alternative to OS X fullscreen.) The next two most common operations are "take up t…

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