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Re: Show HN: Omacosy – Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP

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Post by paulsp »

vardalab wrote: post #10

How would this work on the dual monitors? Is there an option to have a secondary monitor have just one workspace while main monitor has multiple workspaces?

Currently I use it on two monitors, both have independent 1-9 workspaces and you can move your windows across them with shortcuts or by dragging. On my big monitor I mostly just use the first workspace.

When you plug the monitor out it collapses the workspaces and tries to fit them on empty ones on the Mac screen. It remembers the previous setup to restore them once you plug the monitor in again.

Re: Show HN: Omacosy – Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP

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Post by aleqs »

Kind of sideways rant about tiling window managers on Marcos in general..

I mostly use Linux + dwm as my daily driver, recently added a mac into the mix (mostly for testing personal cross-platform stuff, I use macs for work mostly), and not being a fan of the macos UI in general decided to set up a tiling window manager - googling showed me AeroSpace and Yabai as the most popular options.

The experience with both of these has been quite terrible, and I don't think the problem is with these projects themselves but with macos and how it's UI/desktops work. Full screen windows seemingly break both completely. Doc hiding/showing is completely inconsistent - sometimes it just renders on top of all windows and doesn't hide other times it stays hidden even on mouse hover. Windows just disappear and can't be switched to. Fullscreen tiling seems completely unsupport(ed/able) - you must waste screen space on pointless title/status bars for some reason . After googling it turns out many of these issues exist in a fresh/bare macos and have been know unfixed issues for like 5+ years.

I can't believe there are people claiming macos has a consistent, elegant and high quality UI... it is so terribly shitty and broken

Re: Show HN: Omacosy – Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP

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Post by skupig »

aleqs wrote: post #12

Kind of sideways rant about tiling window managers on Marcos in general.. I mostly use Linux + dwm as my daily driver, recently added a mac into the mix (mostly for testing personal cross-platform stuff, I use macs for work mostly), and not being a fan of the macos UI in general decided to set up a tiling window manager - googling showed me AeroSpace and Yabai as the most popular options. The experience with both of…

>you must waste screen space on pointless title/status bars for some reason

There is macwmfx: https://github.com/aspauldingcode/macwmfx

I use it on a couple specific apps to remove title bars. You can inject it with DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES.

Re: Show HN: Omacosy – Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP

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Post by paulsp »

aleqs wrote: post #12

Kind of sideways rant about tiling window managers on Marcos in general.. I mostly use Linux + dwm as my daily driver, recently added a mac into the mix (mostly for testing personal cross-platform stuff, I use macs for work mostly), and not being a fan of the macos UI in general decided to set up a tiling window manager - googling showed me AeroSpace and Yabai as the most popular options. The experience with both of…

Yeah its a bit painful on mac. You cant have floating windows constantly in front on mac like you have on hyprland. In my implementation I added a super + s shortcut to pull any floating windows I lost to the front again. But its definitly not the nicest solution.

For fullscreen windows I also added a custom implementation with super + f that works in the workspaces setting. Just making videos fullscreen or clicking the green fullscreen button still exits the setup to macos fullscreen. The system is still kinda usable with mac fullscreen in parallel but its not a clean experience.

Re: Show HN: Omacosy – Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP

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Post by paulsp »

skupig wrote: post #13
aleqs wrote: post #12

Kind of sideways rant about tiling window managers on Marcos in general.. I mostly use Linux + dwm as my daily driver, recently added a mac into the mix (mostly for testing personal cross-platform stuff, I use macs for work mostly), and not being a fan of the macos UI in general decided to set up a tiling window manager - googling showed me AeroSpace and Yabai as the most popular options. The experience with both of…

>you must waste screen space on pointless title/status bars for some reason There is macwmfx: https://github.com/aspauldingcode/macwmfx I use it on a couple specific apps to remove title bars. You can inject it with DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES.

this is really cool perhaps I could integrate it or get some inspiration from it to declutter the tiling view

Re: Show HN: Omacosy – Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP

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Post by paulsp »

drewbailey wrote: post #16

AeroSpace is really nice for i3 like tiling on macOS https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace

Yes this is based on AeroSpace, I used it with some custom configs and hidden commands for the tiling. This project is more about combining it with the custom menu bar, mission control, shortcuts and a few other things to get a well rounded experience.

Re: Show HN: Omacosy – Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP

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Post by iLemming »

aleqs wrote: post #12

Kind of sideways rant about tiling window managers on Marcos in general.. I mostly use Linux + dwm as my daily driver, recently added a mac into the mix (mostly for testing personal cross-platform stuff, I use macs for work mostly), and not being a fan of the macos UI in general decided to set up a tiling window manager - googling showed me AeroSpace and Yabai as the most popular options. The experience with both of…

> rant about tiling window managers

MacOS is so absolutely terrible for programming work. The only coder-favorable unit on Mac that I wish Linux had a similar alternative for is the OSA layer. Nothing else is justifiable there from a software engineering standpoint. Nothing.

Apple keeps insisting on Jony Ive's influence and keeps making "an operating system for florists". Well, I'm a damn programmer - I need the utility, I don't care about stupid animations, widgets, jumping icons in the Dock, etc. If my enterprise overlords didn't push it so hard down my throat, I would be so much happier just using Linux.

Re: Show HN: Omacosy – Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP

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Post by VCFundedGenYer »

paulsp wrote: post #3
purpleflame1257 wrote: post #2

Okay very cool, will try. But please remove the claude-ese from the GitHub repo. It just erodes trust.

Hey thanks, I will try to get the readme more human. I am not a great writer and I wanted to have each piece explained well and in detail. Especially about the permissioning and different features. Looking forward to your experience hope you area gonna like it.

Just a tip - Don't worry about not being a great writer. Trust is earned, and making AI write everything will guarantee most users won't give your project a sniff whatsoever
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