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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 aequitas »

sparqlittlestar wrote: post #204
aequitas wrote: post #29

Wonderful, that leaves 2 things on the top of my list for spaces: having to hover your mouse over the top left corner of a space and waiting until it shows the closing icon. And Safari deciding its better to switch to a space and open a window that was minimised there instead of just opening a new window in the space i'm currently in (even with the "switch to a space" setting turned off!) when 1 want to open a new ta…

Press Option to immediately show the close button

Thanks! Now I'm curious of all the places where there are still hidden Options key features that I haven't discovered yet. It's just everywhere, but so undiscoverable.

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Post by matwood »

godelski wrote: post #146

I think Apple is making a really fatal flaw. Tbh Microsoft is doing it too. Design good interfaces, with sane defaults but do not handcuff power users!!! I often hear people say no one should care because there aren't many power users. They're a small portion, but that's absurd framing. They matter a lot because they're the ones that push your design language, develop new ideas, influence the general community, build…

> I often hear people say no one should care because there aren't many power users.

You also have to consider that not all power users are the same. I’ve been using macOS since the G4 PB days, and would consider myself a power user. I get around in the os just fine and have for years. I also have never felt handcuffed. Some of the macOS 26 visual decisions are/were (some were already changed) questionable, but overall it was a solid upgrade IMO.

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Post by mabedan »

Is there a tool which eliminates the animation, also when switching between apps with cmd+tab? I almost never use ctrl+→, I just know what application I want to switch to.

All these apps that I tried only fix the ctrl+→, but not application switching

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Post by aesopturtle »

This is one of those classic examples of software feeling ‘heavy’ for reasons that have nothing to do with hardware limits. People often talk about performance in terms of benchmarks, but interface latency on routine actions probably matters more to happiness than a lot of headline metrics. Nice work.

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Post by tern »

I did an exhaustive comparison of window managers and settled on using Raycast for simple resizing (full screen, center, mid-size centered, 1/2, 1/3, 2/3 left/right) + FlashSpace[1], which implements simple virtual spaces with instant switching.

You can also use Rectangle or Spectacle or others in place of Raycast.

Foolproof with zero magic.

[1] https://github.com/wojciech-kulik/FlashSpace

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Post by PhiSchle »

ArchAndStarch wrote: post #91
hmokiguess wrote: post #72

Can you use this with the trackpad gesture though? That's the only thing that has me locked in, the muscle memory of trackpad is hard to beat for me and unfortunately I rather suffer through the animation then move to the keyboard

Check out https://github.com/joshuarli/iss !

Thank you so much. This is finally the perfect tool. I am using a 160hz monitor and the switching times were driving me crazy. (The higher the refresh rate, the longer the animation takes...)
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