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#21

I've been enjoying chunkwm as a tiling WM. Hard to go back to non-tiling when you've experienced it. https://github.com/koekeishiya/chunkwm

I’ve tried tiling WM (well, MacOS’ Amethyst, before that used kwm for a while, used fluxbox a long time ago on arch which can be used with tiling) but still can’t get the “why”, they don’t help my process and mostly stand on my way. Anything I’m missing? What do you find so changing?

Re: Show HN: Phoenix 2.6 – a macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript

#22

I've been enjoying chunkwm as a tiling WM. Hard to go back to non-tiling when you've experienced it. https://github.com/koekeishiya/chunkwm

I have yet to use chunkwm, but I have tried a few of the precursors. They were all nice, but super glitchy, especially when it comes to multiple monitors. Does any of that seem better with chunkwm?

Re: Show HN: Phoenix 2.6 – a macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript

#26

After many ours spent on several scriptable window managers I've settled on Spectacle, which is a lot less powerful, but proved to be enough for me, while being dead easy and hassle free.

Ditto. It's brilliant and one of the things stopping me switching to linux at this point.

Re: Show HN: Phoenix 2.6 – a macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript

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I've been enjoying chunkwm as a tiling WM. Hard to go back to non-tiling when you've experienced it. https://github.com/koekeishiya/chunkwm

I have yet to use chunkwm, but I have tried a few of the precursors. They were all nice, but super glitchy, especially when it comes to multiple monitors. Does any of that seem better with chunkwm?

I've just tried it out with one external monitor (laptop + external) and chunkwm works as expected. Don't know how that scales past 1 external monitor though.

Re: Show HN: Phoenix 2.6 – a macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript

#28

I've been enjoying chunkwm as a tiling WM. Hard to go back to non-tiling when you've experienced it. https://github.com/koekeishiya/chunkwm

I’ve tried tiling WM (well, MacOS’ Amethyst, before that used kwm for a while, used fluxbox a long time ago on arch which can be used with tiling) but still can’t get the “why”, they don’t help my process and mostly stand on my way. Anything I’m missing? What do you find so changing?

A few reasons: - I know what is going to happen when I open anything and can get things where they need to be very quickly (since it is keyboard driven).

- The wm is working with me to use the entire screen.

- You can always revert to making windows float if you need it.

- You can use supporting terminal with no title bar which saves space (see here https://www.dropbox.com/s/0f08qa0dbhhc6nv/Screen%20Shot%2020...)

It is occasionally annoying when something doesn't behave as expected but its a fun tool to use in general.

Re: Show HN: Phoenix 2.6 – a macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve tried tiling WM (well, MacOS’ Amethyst, before that used kwm for a while, used fluxbox a long time ago on arch which can be used with tiling) but still can’t get the “why”, they don’t help my process and mostly stand on my way. Anything I’m missing? What do you find so changing?

A few reasons: - I know what is going to happen when I open anything and can get things where they need to be very quickly (since it is keyboard driven). - The wm is working with me to use the entire screen. - You can always revert to making windows float if you need it. - You can use supporting terminal with no title bar which saves space (see here https://www.dropbox.com/s/0f08qa0dbhhc6nv/Screen%20Shot%2020... ) It…

Can you configure the margins between those three terminal windows? I currently use Tmux with one fullscreen terminal to achieve a similar effect, but this looks interesting too. I'd like to eliminate any margins though. A one-pixel border is all I would want.

Re: Show HN: Phoenix 2.6 – a macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript

#30

I spent quite a bit of time writing my configuration for Phoenix, if you're thinking about writing your own I think you might find starting from mine useful. It's easy to customize, there are gifs in the readme, and it comes packed with features, I hope you'll like it: https://github.com/fabiospampinato/phoenix

This is fantastic! The readme with animated GIF's is really helping me learn the shortcuts. Thanks for sharing.
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