I never run more than one space and instead switch between windows with the app Alt Tab
Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
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Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#12What 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.
Every [*] macOS user uses Rectangle.app — https://rectangleapp.com
The ones who don't use it is because they don’t know it exists.
Or they are still using the (deprecated) Spectacle.app — https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle
[*] if you wonder why I say “every user” even though it’s obviously not true is because everyone loves hyperbole in this website.
Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
I was referring to their last line ("I will never be able to simultaneously experience the productivity of i3 and the necessary evil of MS Office/Illustrator on the same OS") not the linked article because the parent doesn't "think that this will solve spaces on MacOS" therefore I gave a suggestion that would.
Secondly I don't find anything that bad about why the article's author doesn't want to use yabai, I generally disable SIP anyway (because I want to install anything I want without restriction, even edit system files because that's necessary in some cases, as yabai does); and they just don't want to learn a new WM which is fine for them but isn't a valid reason for everyone to not use yabai.
Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
You can turn tiling off
`yabai -m rule --add app=".*" manage=off`
Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#15I never run more than one space and instead switch between windows with the app Alt Tab
I do both, Alt-Tab works well for spaces as well since it can discriminate which window is in which space.
Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#16I'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.
It get annoying after a while, especially if you're swiping a lot, such as having an IDE and test app / Simulator in one space and a browser in another.
Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#17I'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.
Now do it 100x every day and see if it gets old :)
Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#18I'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.
Yes, and the app they're recommending emulates that swipe, but really really fast, so it looks instant. And you don't have to swipe 8 times to go from #1 to #9.
Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#19I'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.
It get annoying after a while, especially if you're swiping a lot, such as having an IDE and test app / Simulator in one space and a browser in another.
it just blends into the background for me personally, i found it annoying a little when i swapped from multiple monitors to one
Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#20Clever hack. Now if there were some way to bring back the OS X 10.5/10.6 2D spaces grid… the linear design in place since 10.7 has always felt overly simplistic.