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

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Post by RBerenguel »

asselinpaul wrote: post #28
RBerenguel wrote: post #21

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…

Basically I always get tripped with the fact that I always, always have emacs in full screen, as well as a terminal also maximised. Then I end up needing 5 or 6 spaces to hold all the windows I open and close during the day and starts to get hard to manage. But thanks for sharing your perspective, knowing me, I'll retry in a few months :)

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

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Post by asselinpaul »

innocentoldguy wrote: post #29
asselinpaul wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Absolutely. You can configure everything (global padding, inter-tile padding etc...)

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

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Post by freeone3000 »

RBerenguel wrote: post #21
asselinpaul wrote: post #19

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?

What I find valuable in a tiling window manager is what it doesn't have. Usually, I want a window full screen. Ocassionally, I want two windows side by side. I can't think of a time I want a window halfway transparent with its upper left corner at (0,32) that's partially occulding another window. It's just so much faster when all the things I don't want to do aren't possible.

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

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Post by fabiospampinato »

dangson wrote: post #30
fabiospampinato wrote: post #20

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.

I'm glad you like it! :D

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

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Post by marstall »

khirviko wrote: post #9
mi100hael wrote: post #3

Is this related at all to Slate ( https://github.com/jigish/slate ), which also has a JS API?

In many conceptual ways, such as sharing the same language for configuration, though this is a completely different project so they don’t share the same origin. Slate has become rather abandoned and unsupported nowadays. Phoenix hopefully continues strong in this area.

still works nicely though, i will add (slate)

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

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Post by brennebeck »

acmecorps wrote: post #13
khirviko wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Both Phoenix and Hammerspoon are free and open-source. You can also configure them in endless ways, so either you can have a really simple setup or a very dynamic one that works just the way you like.

Interesting. Yeah, I think I'm missing out but, have no idea what they are. What are the dynamic flows that might be useful?

https://github.com/fabiospampinato/phoenix/blob/master/READM...

From a user higher up in the thread. Nice example.

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