Using Xmonad on OS X
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Using Xmonad on OS X
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Re: Using Xmonad on OS X
#2Note that XMonad, as the name implies; will only work with Mac windows that are being managed by X. Standard mac windows will not be affected.
Re: Using Xmonad on OS X
#3The reasonable solution is to use one of the many native tiling applications for OSX. I personally use Spectacle[0], but there are many others[1]. They aren't xmonad, but then again OSX isn't Linux.
[0]: https://www.spectacleapp.com/ [1]: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/9659/what-window-m...
Re: Using Xmonad on OS X
#4Check out amethyst
Re: Using Xmonad on OS X
#5I was an avid Xmonad user on my Linux desktop but never was able to get it working quite right on OS X. I would love if that would change. Unfortunately I don't see anything new on the link posted here.
Re: Using Xmonad on OS X
#6The reasonable solution is to use one of the many native tiling applications for OSX. I personally use Spectacle[0], but there are many others[1]. They aren't xmonad, but then again OSX isn't Linux. [0]: https://www.spectacleapp.com/ [1]: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/9659/what-window-m...
Spectacle is more about moving and tiling individual windows whereas xmonad is more about automatically controlling and tiling your entire desktop space with less direct user management over the windows.
Re: Using Xmonad on OS X
#7The reasonable solution is to use one of the many native tiling applications for OSX. I personally use Spectacle[0], but there are many others[1]. They aren't xmonad, but then again OSX isn't Linux. [0]: https://www.spectacleapp.com/ [1]: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/9659/what-window-m...
Disclaimer: I run OS X at work and Linux on all of my personal machines.
> The reasonable solution is to use one of the many native tiling applications for OSX.
As an i3 user (and former wmii user, and former xmonad user), I find it really frustrating to use tiling window management that doesn't support focus-follows-mouse. This rules out things like Spectacle, Divvy, etc. At a second level, I find that all of OS X's tiling applications have inferior support for workspaces on dual-monitor setups compared to i3/wmii[0] and xmonad.
Unfortunately, on Aqua (OS X), there's basically no way to do proper focus-follows-mouse support. There is one app that fakes it (I think Amethyst), but the latency is annoyingly high.
[0] heck, wmii has better support for workspaces on dual-monitor setups, which is saying something, because it literally doesn't have support for dual monitors at all - you can only run dual-head X11, which is a terrible hack.
Re: Using Xmonad on OS X
#8One of the big drivers for me to switch back to Linux 7 years ago was Xmonad. It's a fantastic and extremely elegant piece of software from many points of view.
The only little glitch is that you need ghc to use it and that's a rather big dependency.
Re: Using Xmonad on OS X
#9In case anyone missed it - here's another tiling window manager for OS X that popped up a few weeks back on HN:
https://github.com/koekeishiya/kwm
It's quite pretty: http://imgur.com/a/tWBSg
Re: Using Xmonad on OS X
#10The reasonable solution is to use one of the many native tiling applications for OSX. I personally use Spectacle[0], but there are many others[1]. They aren't xmonad, but then again OSX isn't Linux. [0]: https://www.spectacleapp.com/ [1]: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/9659/what-window-m...
People always reply citing spectacle et al, but the only window manager that actually has full tiling features I've come across is kwm, which has only recently been developed and is experimental and prone to crashing. Amethyst was passable, but it was very laggy when I last used it. Maybe I should give it another try.
I used xmonad a lot when I was using linux but haven't tried it out on OS X. I'll give this a try.