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

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Post by zuhsetaqi »

whatever1 wrote: post #21

This is awesome. But Apple needs to get their act together. Window management, specially in multi monitor/ space setups is unbelievably bad. What is the purpose of the dock? It does not tell you what apps have windows visible, preview these windows or inform you where these windows are. Absolute waste of screen real estate. And to add to the injury they seized another 10% of the horizontal space for the even more use…

> What is the purpose of the dock?

It’s an app launcher. Since I only open app with Spotlight/Alfred, my dock auto hides and doesn’t waste any real estate.

The stage manager in my opinion should have been iPad only. But if you ignore the button in the control center it’s easy to forget that it even exists.

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

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Post by zuhsetaqi »

doubled112 wrote: post #35
cosmic_cheese wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My guess is that among Linux users, multimonitor is unusual. Even most Linux laptop users seem to prefer single monitor clamshell mode vs. keeping the laptop open as a secondary screen. There’s a fair number of Macbook users who do clamshell too but secondary-laptop-screen setups are much much more common in the Mac crowd.

At some point I realized I’d rather one large 4K screen to any multi monitor setup I ever had. I’m not sure if it’s a coping mechanism for using Linux desktops or not, but it does avoid a few issues. It also makes window management simpler in the sense I can just sprawl them out and still see everything. Kind of like moving your project from a small desk to a big kitchen table. I tend to have two workspaces. One for…

I really like having 2 4K 27" displays. I even have a third monitor in vertical orientation but don’t use it that often. Most often I have my editor on one screen and my browser with developer tools on the other screen.

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

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Post by Crowberry »

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.

And a hotkey to go directly to the space. Only seem to work for spaces now and not fullscreen apps, which I make heavy use of

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

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Post by fujinghg »

whatever1 wrote: post #21

This is awesome. But Apple needs to get their act together. Window management, specially in multi monitor/ space setups is unbelievably bad. What is the purpose of the dock? It does not tell you what apps have windows visible, preview these windows or inform you where these windows are. Absolute waste of screen real estate. And to add to the injury they seized another 10% of the horizontal space for the even more use…

Just tell the dock to auto hide. I don’t use stage manager. I don’t know why it exists to be fair.

Window management is “meh” but I don’t care. I use virtual desktops and the desktop Apple magic touchpad. Good enough.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

Crowberry wrote: post #43
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.

And a hotkey to go directly to the space. Only seem to work for spaces now and not fullscreen apps, which I make heavy use of

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

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Post by SebastianKra »

atombender wrote: post #31
wojciech-kulik wrote: post #20

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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…

Not OP, but the way I use macOS Spaces is to differentiate between work and private. I use Chrome for both, so I have some Chrome windows in my work space, and some in my private space. I do similar things for other apps like iTerm. It's an important feature. I once tried having two different browsers for work/private, but it was a chore to manage which browser I opened links in, so I gave up. My biggest problem with…

Right click the app icon > options > Assign To > This Desktop

Also noteworthy: assign to all desktops. I use this to keep my browser and messaging apps in all spaces.

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

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Post by creativenolo »

whatever1 wrote: post #21

This is awesome. But Apple needs to get their act together. Window management, specially in multi monitor/ space setups is unbelievably bad. What is the purpose of the dock? It does not tell you what apps have windows visible, preview these windows or inform you where these windows are. Absolute waste of screen real estate. And to add to the injury they seized another 10% of the horizontal space for the even more use…

This stuff is so divisive. You can find seemingly a roughly equal number of people who passionately think the opposite on many of these very-different-from-windows UX choices. I’m one. The dock tells me what apps are running and available. There are other ways to find the windows, and running apps don’t need windows.

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

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Post by adamredwoods »

I don't use VWS on OSX, because I'm faster without it. Flashspace looks like an improvement (faster), but I don't know if it's how I work. I may try it.

The biggest complaint I have, is why doesn't alt-tab work smarter? Here's an example of using alt-tab and window management differently: https://justinnoel.dev/2020/12/22/macplus-software-demo-of-c...

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

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Post by CharlesW »

wojciech-kulik wrote: post #40
CharlesW wrote: post #36

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I wonder if SpaceCapsule ( https://spacecapsule.app/ ) could work with FlashSpace?

Probably not, because as far as I can see, it relies on macOS spaces. FlashSpace doesn't use native spaces.

Sorry, yes, "could" is doing wayyy too much lifting there. I was thinking you could potentially work together on an integration (and/or leverage the existing integration you mention in the README) that would provide the experience @cyberax is looking for.

In any case, I'm very excited to try FlashSpace after reluctantly giving up on Spaces! And thank you for linking to SketchyBar as well — it's always great to learn about new, well-regarded power-user utilities.

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

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Post by fragmede »

adamredwoods wrote: post #48

I don't use VWS on OSX, because I'm faster without it. Flashspace looks like an improvement (faster), but I don't know if it's how I work. I may try it. The biggest complaint I have, is why doesn't alt-tab work smarter? Here's an example of using alt-tab and window management differently: https://justinnoel.dev/2020/12/22/macplus-software-demo-of-c...

https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/
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