Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

Post by al_borland » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 1:17 AM UTC

juujian wrote: post #140

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…

Don't know about customizability on MacOS but I've always been very accustomed to animations and recently I just turned them off on Android and Linux and I... Don't miss anything. Turned out they don't add anything other than an initial wow factor.

Post by kewlzeeroe » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 1:18 AM UTC

Post by lolive » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 1:40 AM UTC

wett wrote: post #98

nathanwh wrote: post #82

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Another happy aerospace here! IMO it does a great job with barely any configuration required (the default config works great, I have barely tweaked it over years of use), that said I’m not exactly power user of tiling WMs, I have one app per workspace 90% of the time

Same here. My only complaint is I wish there was a way to make apps floating by default and then you would specify which ones you want tiled. IME a lot of apps are easier to use in their default state. I really only use my web browser, text editor, and terminal in tiled mode.

Post by ArchAndStarch » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 1:50 AM UTC

primaprashant wrote: post #147

I love using (tiling) window managers, and one of the most important requirements for me is having a key binding for switching to the last active workspace. The proposed solution in the blog doesn't achieve this. I use Aerospace on macOS right now and think it's the best solution available. I generally have fixed workspaces for different things: first for a browser, second for a code editor, third for a terminal, and…

Post by Forgeties79 » Fri, Apr 10, 2026, 2:20 AM UTC

u_fucking_dork wrote: post #132

ryanmcbride wrote: post #119

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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.

Keyboard works fine. Always has. iPhone just has so many users that there's going to be a plethora of passionate unpleasable nerds for every single facet of it. Even in your ideal virtual keyboard version, there was an army of people complaining that it wasn't a hardware keyboard.