Stop using MacOS spaces. Never full screen anything. Throw everything around with hotkeys using OSS rectangle. Use shortcat to automatically bring your cursor to anything on your screen and use enter to click and type.
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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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This is such an insane bug to still have around all these years. Are apple engineers not using macOS?
I mean, their damn phone keyboards are so bad I'm 100% confident that Tim only does voice to text on his phone. There's no way that the CEO of a company could use a keyboard that horrible and not want to fix it.
Most of my issues were fixed when I disabled swipe to type. Not all, but most.
Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#113Genuine question - why do people even use spaces? Why is it better than just CMD+Tab or CMD+Tilde until you arrive at the window you want?
I personally don't, even when I'm doing heavy multitasking on a 13" laptop. Only exception is if something needs to be full-screen.
It can make sense if you're keeping a lot of non-full-size windows on a larger screen and working on separate tasks that are in the same application, meaning cmd-tab won't help.
Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#114Amazing how much effort is needed from a billion dollar company to make a feature present in my 1kLOC window manager.
Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is such an insane bug to still have around all these years. Are apple engineers not using macOS?
I mean, their damn phone keyboards are so bad I'm 100% confident that Tim only does voice to text on his phone. There's no way that the CEO of a company could use a keyboard that horrible and not want to fix it.
If Tim used speech to text we’d be at least testing SotA local voice models in the iOS betas
Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#116Having been ruined by Linux options like Hyperland and Niri, I’m digging my early foray into OmniWM - https://github.com/BarutSRB/OmniWM
As someone who never uses spaces or any window manager, what am I actually missing? What’s wrong with cmd tab and just switching between apps? Is this going to be some Kind of major epiphany?!
Sort of. With proper workspaces you land directly on the full screen program with a single hotkey. No cmd-tab switching needed.
Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#117I switched to Fedora Asahi Remix[1] after being affected by this bug[2] after 5 releases of MacOS Tahoe. I am enjoying Asahi Remix with Gnome and it has sensicle window management. [1] https://asahilinux.org/fedora/ [2] https://youtube.com/watch?v=JjptYWKGVc4
I also switched, but to https://asahi-alarm.org/ (the arch variant) with Sway, right after Software Update ignored my choice to NOT upgrade to Slophoe.
Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#118Stop using MacOS spaces. Never full screen anything. Throw everything around with hotkeys using OSS rectangle. Use shortcat to automatically bring your cursor to anything on your screen and use enter to click and type.
Similar I just use RayCast Hotkeys to bring mostly full-sized apps of my choice to the forefront and not worry about much. I'm also just optimizing around a small single screen setup these days for focusing on stuff. option-cmd-o BOOM, outlook opt-cmd-g Bang, Ghostty opt-cmd-v POW, VSCode opt-cmd-s Boff, Slack etc etc... ALSO: I learned this from some prior thread on something similar.
How does that compare to using Alt Tab? And I forget if you have to suffer through any animation at all when you do it that way
Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, their damn phone keyboards are so bad I'm 100% confident that Tim only does voice to text on his phone. There's no way that the CEO of a company could use a keyboard that horrible and not want to fix it.
Most of my issues were fixed when I disabled swipe to type. Not all, but most.
I've heard this advice before and I've tried it, and I really didn't notice a difference. I also, unfortunately, use swipe to type a lot. If I'm typing one handed I'm pretty much always using swipe. Sure it barely works, but that's the same as if I was typing normally so feels like a wash.
Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, their damn phone keyboards are so bad I'm 100% confident that Tim only does voice to text on his phone. There's no way that the CEO of a company could use a keyboard that horrible and not want to fix it.
If Tim used speech to text we’d be at least testing SotA local voice models in the iOS betas
Starting to wonder what he DOES use. I guess just the cameras since they seem to be the only things that change.