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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 cosmic_cheese »

wolvoleo wrote: post #45
cosmic_cheese wrote: post #20

Clever 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.

That is indeed the biggest thing I missed so much. When I finally moved from macOS to KDE I got the grid desktops back and I love them so much. I have 9 virtual desktops and a 3x3 grid is so much easier to navigate than a row of 9. Also, Apple makes them dynamic now. I have each desktop assigned to a specific purpose. It's like having 9 computers at my fingertips. Almost every release of macOS after 10.6 or so droppe…

I've tried KDE but unfortunately too much of it clashes with my preferences, even after spending quite a lot of time tinkering with its many config options. It's a nice project but I don't think it'll ever be for me, despite carrying features from older versions of macOS.

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by tranceylc »

aylmao wrote: post #52

I grew up with this animation so I didn't consider it annoying until I bought a new Macbook a couple years ago. I noticed sometimes I would press keyboard shortcuts before my system's focus had switched. Just little stumbles here and there, some inoffensive, some annoying, but who knows maybe I didn't catch enough sleep. Over time it happened often enough that I decided to google it, and it turns out my muscle memory…

I would assume it’s something based around whatever deacceleration animation it is calculating? So in the inverse of what you would see in games that don’t support uncapped framerates. It would at least explain why the refresh rate has an inverted relationship

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by AaronFriel »

mintplant wrote: post #63

Awesome! Is there a working way to do the same for Windows virtual desktops? I remember I used to do it with ViVeTool [0], but Microsoft removed the feature flag at some point. [0] https://github.com/thebookisclosed/ViVe

Turn off "Animation Effects" in Settings and it will be instantaneous.

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

el_benhameen wrote: post #50
tptacek wrote: post #34

God damnit I didn't know until 15 seconds ago that the Space-switching animation in macOS was annoying. Thanks a lot!

Just wait until you notice that it’s inexplicably slower on 120hz monitors and that your input devices remain focused on the previous space until the animation fully completes!

> our input devices remain focused on the previous space until the animation fully completes

This strikes me as the fuckup more than anything else.

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by tytho »

xz18r wrote: post #44

I see yabai mentioned, definitely check out Aerospace. Ive tried multiple WMs after years of i3 on Linux and this is the best one I found (for me) with quite a margin. It just works (tm) https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace

I was a heavy macOS Spaces user. Upon a recommendation to use Aerospace from somewhere else here a few months ago, I switched and love it. I considered Yabai, but some features required disabling SIP (System Integrity Protection).

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by veber-alex »

aylmao wrote: post #52

I grew up with this animation so I didn't consider it annoying until I bought a new Macbook a couple years ago. I noticed sometimes I would press keyboard shortcuts before my system's focus had switched. Just little stumbles here and there, some inoffensive, some annoying, but who knows maybe I didn't catch enough sleep. Over time it happened often enough that I decided to google it, and it turns out my muscle memory…

This is such an insane bug to still have around all these years.

Are apple engineers not using macOS?

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