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Re: Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces replacement

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Post by CharlesW »

toddmorey wrote: post #6

I’ve tried a lot of tiling window managers & Spaces replacements and it’s hard to take over that central piece of the OS reliably. There’s always at least one of my critical apps that freaks out. What I want more than anything is just a terminal flag to turn off the dumb animations on the built-in Spaces.

> What I want more than anything is just a terminal flag to turn off the dumb animations on the built-in Spaces.

You can turn on "Reduce Motion" to change it from a slide to a fast cross-fade.

Re: Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces replacement

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Post by wojciech-kulik »

jameschensmith wrote: post #10

This looks great! I currently use Aerospace, but your usage of macOS spaces has me curious. 1. Does FlashSpace require disabling SIP? 2. Aerospace documents the limitations of macOS spaces [1]. How does FlashSpace deal with these limitations? 3. Do you have any plans to support file-based configuration? I like syncing my dotfiles between multiple computers. [1]: https://nikitabobko.github.io/AeroSpace/guide#emulation…

1. No

2. Aerospace has significant performance issues with workspaces. The problem has persisted for over a year, and there are no plans to fix it. That's why I started building FlashSpace - to make it blazingly fast. Which limitation is especially interesting to you? FlashSpace addresses the animation lag, the number of workspaces is unlimited, and you can move apps between workspaces with hot keys.

3. FlashSpace already supports JSON config files which are stored by default in ~/.config/flashspace, so you can easily sync them.

Re: Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces replacement

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Post by anon7000 »

CharlesW wrote: post #15
toddmorey wrote: post #6

I’ve tried a lot of tiling window managers & Spaces replacements and it’s hard to take over that central piece of the OS reliably. There’s always at least one of my critical apps that freaks out. What I want more than anything is just a terminal flag to turn off the dumb animations on the built-in Spaces.

> What I want more than anything is just a terminal flag to turn off the dumb animations on the built-in Spaces. You can turn on "Reduce Motion" to change it from a slide to a fast cross-fade.

I ultimately stopped because the trade off is not being able to see web animations (or most any animations in the OS) most of the time, which isn’t ideal as a web developer.

Re: Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces replacement

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Post by wojciech-kulik »

matanrubin wrote: post #19

The biggest pain point with macOS spaces is how it handles multiple windows of the same app. It drives me crazy. What is FlashSpace’s approach for solving this?

Could you explain what you mean? The app only allows assigning the whole app to a specific workspace. So you can't have one window of the same app in workspace A and another in workspace B. It's done this way because it's the most efficient way so far, but of course I understand that sometimes people may want to have multiple windows in different workspaces. I'm going to investigate a possibility to manage apps on a window-level basis. But macOS is the limitation here, if it's slow then my hands are tied.
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