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

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Post by boronine »

I have been using AeroSpace for this purpose for over a year. I simply disable all the tiling features in the config and only use two shortcuts: switch to workspace and move current window to workspace. It's absolutely essential when working on a small screen.

AeroSpace does indeed suffer from a performance issue but this appears to be inherent to the available macOS APIs: https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/issues/131

The way you reproduce it is open Factorio.app and quickly switch between workspaces while the game is loading.

FlashSpace seems to suffer from this problem as well based on a quick test.

With regards to configuration, I think it's cumbersome to configure shortcuts per workspace. In AeroSpace, every letter and number on the keyboard is automatically a workspace and shortcuts are global.

All that said, this is a fantastic tool and I would prefer a tool like this that addresses the pain of macOS workspaces as its primary goal rather than being part of a tiling window manager.

EDIT: After more testing it appears that FlashSpace does not support having different windows of the same app on different workspaces, this is a dealbreaker for my workflow :(

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

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Post by ttul »

maroonblazer wrote: post #53
SebastianKra wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That doesn't solve parent's (and my) problem. I have collections of tabs in different windows and I assign those windows to different spaces. Every time I reboot Chrome all windows are assigned to whichever space is active when I launch Chrome. I seem to recall that Chrome used to remember these assignments, so maybe it's not a macOS problem, but rather a Chrome problem...?

This is also how I use Chrome with spaces. I’d love someone to solve this problem.

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

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Post by brainbag »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I've been using Choosy.app for easily managing different browsers for work and personal (and testing), and it works great. You set it to your default browser, and then anytime something opens a browser it pops up a picker. Lots of global and per-site configuration options like browser profile selection, private windows, etc.

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

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Post by cjonas »

throwaway314155 wrote: post #51
wojciech-kulik wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Just echoing the others here. I get it in principle, but in practice I treat 2-3 separate windows of Firefox as their own "app".

Or vscode. If I was going to use this, I'd ideally want a space per client.

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

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Post by foofoobar »

boronine wrote: post #81

I have been using AeroSpace for this purpose for over a year. I simply disable all the tiling features in the config and only use two shortcuts: switch to workspace and move current window to workspace. It's absolutely essential when working on a small screen. AeroSpace does indeed suffer from a performance issue but this appears to be inherent to the available macOS APIs: https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/iss…

How do you disable the AeroSpace tiling, are you just using the floating layout? Can you share your config?

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

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Post by chrisvalleybay »

user3939382 wrote: post #60
cyberax wrote: post #14

Super nice! I wish you could add a grid view of the workspaces. I miss TotalSpaces...

What’s wrong with TotalSpaces?

Doesn't work properly with newer versions of MacOS and requires you to disable SIP.

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

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Post by 10729287 »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #59
zuhsetaqi wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

This is also what I do. The auto-hidden Dock is my way to check for Open apps (at times). Otherwise, I still do Alfred/Spotlight to go to an App.

Are you aware of the AltTab app ? Highly customisable and best way to switch between opened windows on Macos. https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/

Couldn't go back.

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

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Post by 10729287 »

rplnt wrote: post #33
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…

They make more money that way, by having terrible desktop ux that needs to be supplemented with dozen of extra apps. Not sure if that was their intention, but they do.

Not sure they are doing extra money because official apps are generally opened by free, community driven, ones, but yeah, this is my main issue with Macos nowadays, official apps are so flawed the os needs to be heavily customed out of the box.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

boronine wrote: post #81

I have been using AeroSpace for this purpose for over a year. I simply disable all the tiling features in the config and only use two shortcuts: switch to workspace and move current window to workspace. It's absolutely essential when working on a small screen. AeroSpace does indeed suffer from a performance issue but this appears to be inherent to the available macOS APIs: https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace/iss…

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

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Post by [deleted] »

donfotto wrote: post #55

This is much needed on mac os. But why? Back in the day, mac os was supposed to "just work", and linux was for weirdos who had too much time and customized everything. But now, it's the opposite. Vanilla flavor ubuntu just works out of the box. And mac os needs tons of third party customization. Same with external monitors, on mac one needs 3rd party software for properly scaling the UI on a 4k monitor. That's core O…

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