AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS

Clicklock is much nicer in Windows than the awkward methods I've found so far with Linux.

> in a world of multi-monitor setups and common cross application workflows, I find it absolutely bizarre that I might have to scroll across 2+ monitors to get to a dropdown menu for an application that I'm using

These days the menubar is always on all displays, not just the main one?

(unless maybe you have "Displays use separate Spaces" unchecked?)

The biggest QOL improvements imo are found in the approach to the user-facing API design.

Compare basic multi-monitor commands in something like bspwm[1] or yabai[2][3] to twms on Windows where this is typically handled transparently by directional `move` and `focus` commands understanding monitor boundaries.

Besides this, Whim has implemented a very functional ctrl+p style command palette which provides a great interface for more advanced on-the-fly/one-time window manager interactions.

With komorebi I think that having different border colours to indicate different types of containers is very helpful (one colour for single window stacks, a different colour for monocle containers, a different colour for stacks with multiple windows), as well as custom window-based work area offsets[4] (so if you have an ultrawide monitor with only a single window on a workspace, you can add offsets to the sides so it doesn't stretch across the whole width and give poor usability).

It's not really any one "big thing" but rather a difference in approach which adds up over many small design decisions.

[1]: https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm/issues/563

[2]: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issues/505

[3]: from my own personal yabai config - imo this is not really acceptable for a user facing API, especially for basic commands like focusing and moving:

```

    # focus window
    alt - h : yabai -m window --focus west || yabai -m display --focus west
    alt - j : yabai -m window --focus south || yabai -m display --focus south
    alt - k : yabai -m window --focus north || yabai -m display --focus north
    alt - l : yabai -m window --focus east || yabai -m display --focus east

    # swap window
    alt + shift - h : yabai -m window --swap west  || yabai -m window --display west && yabai -m display --focus west
    alt + shift - j : yabai -m window --swap south || yabai -m window --display south && yabai -m display --focus south
    alt + shift - k : yabai -m window --swap north || yabai -m window --display north && yabai -m display --focus north
    alt + shift - l : yabai -m window --swap east  || yabai -m window --display east && yabai -m display --focus east

```

[4]: https://hachyderm.io/@LGUG2Z/112493589633823318

I daily drive this and my verdict is: it's the best way to manage windows on a Mac, but falls short of i3/sway. In particular, support for re-arranging windows by dragging them to positions relative to one another is extremely limited in that it's not able to create new vertical or horizontal splits the way you can in sway, which forces me to take awkward detours with keyboard commands to get to the window layout I want most of the time. Like, say I have two windows side-by-side, and I want to split one of them vertically. In sway I'd pop open the new window, then drag it to the top or bottom half of the window I want it to share horizontal space with, and bam, all done. With aerospace the best way I've found to do this is to open the new window, then switch all three windows into a vertical stack, then focus the window that was originally on the left and invoke the 'move left' command on it.

If you have normalizations enabled, you don't need to "switch into a vertical stack"

Given this layout:

    h_tiles
    ├── window1 (focused)
    ├── window2
    └── window3

`move left` will produce this layout:

    h_tiles
    ├── window1 (focused)
    └── v_tiles
        ├── window2
        └── window3