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Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by ubercore »

adamnemecek wrote: post #2

What do people use for Windows-like window management on macos? I tried a bunch of them and I'm not a fan of any of them. I actively dislike the notion of spaces.

This doesn't answer your question, but Aerospace (tiling WM) has been good for me to not use spaces. I don't mind spaces in theory, but the slow animation, for whatever reason, just really irks me.

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by probabletrain »

adamnemecek wrote: post #2

What do people use for Windows-like window management on macos? I tried a bunch of them and I'm not a fan of any of them. I actively dislike the notion of spaces.

I use https://rectangleapp.com/ and enjoy it. I have shortcuts to move windows to the left/right half of the screen, and cycle between monitors. This, combined with native cmd+tab and cmd+` is enough for me.

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Post by satvikpendem »

adamnemecek wrote: post #2

What do people use for Windows-like window management on macos? I tried a bunch of them and I'm not a fan of any of them. I actively dislike the notion of spaces.

Rectangle with Alt-Tab (both open source), the latter is especially useful as I hate macOS' application- rather than window-level switching, Alt-Tab returns it to Windows-like behavior.

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by Fraterkes »

I'm new to MacOS, is the thing they're refering to when you swipe left/right with three fingers to switch between different fullscreen apps / desktops? I kinda like the animation, after decades of windows I'm still impressed when switching between programs isn't stuttery.

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by ray__ »

This looks interesting and I will give it a try. I agree that the space-switching animation is painful.

I don't however think that this will solve spaces on MacOS, for the simple reason that opening new instances of apps is inconsistent and often doesn't behave how you'd expect it to once one more than one space is involved (in my experience, anecdotal).

I've come to peace with the fact that I will never be able to simultaneously experience the productivity of i3 and the necessary evil of MS Office/Illustrator on the same OS. The most important factor in my work is who I work with (rather than what I work with) so I'll remain on the latter train for now.

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by satvikpendem »

ray__ wrote: post #7

This looks interesting and I will give it a try. I agree that the space-switching animation is painful. I don't however think that this will solve spaces on MacOS, for the simple reason that opening new instances of apps is inconsistent and often doesn't behave how you'd expect it to once one more than one space is involved (in my experience, anecdotal). I've come to peace with the fact that I will never be able to s…

Why not use a macOS i3-like window manager like yabai or komorebi (paid)?

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by lynndotpy »

satvikpendem wrote: post #8
ray__ wrote: post #7

This looks interesting and I will give it a try. I agree that the space-switching animation is painful. I don't however think that this will solve spaces on MacOS, for the simple reason that opening new instances of apps is inconsistent and often doesn't behave how you'd expect it to once one more than one space is involved (in my experience, anecdotal). I've come to peace with the fact that I will never be able to s…

Why not use a macOS i3-like window manager like yabai or komorebi (paid)?

This is addressed in the post.

> There are only two problems: for one, yabai does this by binary patching a part of the operating system. This is only possible by disabling System Integrity Protection at your own discretion. For the second, installing yabai forces you to learn and use it as your tiling window manager1. I personally use PaperWM.spoon as my window manager. Both of which are incompatible when installed together.

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