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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 jbverschoor »

ericholscher wrote: post #167
piskov wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don’t get it Spaces are not for fullscreen but for basically virtual desktops i3 linux style Here is superior user experience: 1. Install moom. Its keyboard windows arrangement is second to none. Its two-step tiling is a killer. Ie caps-a to show a popup with all the shortcuts, then “a” letter for vertical 1/3 of the screen. Or s for middle 2/3. Or q for top left third — you can assign any letter for any portion…

This is exactly what I do -- but I have space split up by persona (Personal, work 1, work 2, Play), and then each space is managed with Moom. Love it.

You will still run into shit when one application instance is used in two spaces

Finder, chromes, etc. it will cause automatic switching.

Also, cmd-tab doesn’t have a filtered mode for the active space

Cmd-~ actually works better when using stage manager, because it goed through all active windows across all apps

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by mikeweiss »

I have a vestibular disorder that makes this animation extremely disorienting and it's been so discouraging that apple won't do anything about it. I just stopped using the feature all together! Honestly it's an accessibility issue and apple should be ashamed... Maybe even liable for not doing anything.

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by keerthiko »

I'm not a big space-switcher on OSX, mostly because each of my applications come with spaces (browser, IDE, etc), but unskippable UI animations are an instant roadblock.

Looks like HN hug of death killed your comments section though:

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Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by jbverschoor »

isodev wrote: post #156

> Apple has continuously ignored requests Apple being completely oblivious to what normal people actually need or want is like bad weather- can’t do anything about it (Apple is so big and unregulated), just try not to forget to take an umbrella.

They use a clean work Mac for just work.

It’s like having a dedicated space for a few apps and folders. No wonder they don’t care

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by duskdozer »

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!

If you don't want to go insane try to forget before you notice everything else. Might be too late already once you first do though

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by theredleft »

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…

we are a certain type of people here, aren't we?

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by lll-o-lll »

AaronFriel wrote: post #164
lll-o-lll wrote: post #162

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And VsCode will not display dark mode correctly.

Oh that's a surprising interaction. I use dark mode themes, is there something I haven't noticed?

Specific extension I use that became unusable (black text on black). However, if you look closely, you’ll see a lot of differences in look and feel that don’t seem “animation” related.

Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

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Post by 4jck »

does Aerospace still require disabling SIP? kind of needed as my mac is a work laptop.

I would appreciate if anyone has i3/sway keybindings that work alongside this, otherwise I might just vibecode something in Swift. I know that there is some window management keybinds within System Settings, maybe I need to look into that also, but I don't think they'll behave the way I want them to

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