I've been using Cinch, which does a similar thing (albeit it doesn't have quarter sized windows) by mimicking the abilities of Aero Snap in windows (drag to the sides to make it half the screen, drag to the top to make it full screen).
Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
31–40 of 74 posts
Re: Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
#32Slate is amazing, been using it for a few months. Biggest issue is it takes a bit of config to get it just right. Here's my config file. # Configs config defaultToCurrentScreen true config checkDefaultsOnLoad true config windowHintsShowIcons true config windowHintsIgnoreHiddenWindows false #config windowHintsDuration 5 config windowHintsSpread true #config windowHintsOrder persist config windowHintsFontColor 0;0;0;1.…
Prepend four spaces to get a formatting-preserving view. Though you might want to plop that on a pastebin somewhere instead.
Re: Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
#33I use Better Touch Tool to bind keyboard shortcuts to window actions like halves & corners to achieve a similar result. http://www.bettertouchtool.net/
I've always used BetterSnapTool from the same developer, which is basically the window management features of BetterTouchTool as a standalone app.
Not sure why it's not free, when BetterTouchTool is, but I'm not going to begrudge him that one-off payment for something I use every day.
Re: Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe so. But I don't see a problem with that. OSX window management currently satisfies average users, but not power users. And since power users are exactly the kind of people who can do something about it, they are doing it.
I think the distinction between "power users" and "average users" is meaningless. A user is someone who derives utility from a given platform.
Perhaps so. But what if said user is interested in tweaking things to bend entirely to their own way of (loose use of word) computing. So much to the point that they are willing to (develop and or/change the entirety of) some of the main points of the functioning operating system (window management).
Now the difference between that person and the guy thats fine with changing the windows theme to a different color....theres a distinction there the size of the grand canyon.
Re: Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
#35If you're looking for XMonad on OSX, check out OSXMonad(https://github.com/xmonad/osxmonad).
It's pretty usable at this point. One problem with it (and any of the other tiling solutions), is the drop shadows OSX adds to windows. When you have your windows flush with each other they look pretty bad. Shadowkiller(http://unsanity.com/haxies/shadowkiller) removes all of the drop shadows. It claims to be incompatible with 10.6+, but I'm running it with no issues on 10.8.2 and have on most versions of OSX since 10.7
Re: Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Lots of people -- I'm one of them -- find that switching whole windows seems to pop the mental stack. Whereas turning my head left and right does not do so. Most programming requires at least 4 logical views, IMO: 1. The code 2. The result of the code (web page, test results etc) 3. Documentation that supports coding 4. A control mechanism (ie, a terminal) No doubt there will be quibbling that some of these are reall…
Lots of people -- I'm one of them -- find that switching whole windows seems to pop the mental stack. That's really interesting! I have the opposite problem - switching windows doesn't pop my mental stack, but if there's anything on the screen other than what I'm trying to focus on, it keeps diverting my attention and ruining my concentration. Fullscreen emacs on OSX (without even the system menu bar!) is just awesom…
You may find this little app useful http://willmore.eu/software/isolator/
Re: Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
#37If you're looking for XMonad on OSX, check out OSXMonad( https://github.com/xmonad/osxmonad ). It's pretty usable at this point. One problem with it (and any of the other tiling solutions), is the drop shadows OSX adds to windows. When you have your windows flush with each other they look pretty bad. Shadowkiller( http://unsanity.com/haxies/shadowkiller ) removes all of the drop shadows. It claims to be incompatible…
Okay, this is VERY interesting. I'll probably try that and compare to the user experience that I have with Slate currently.
Did you use XMONAD on Linux too? If yes, is the user experience similar?
Thanks for the link.
Re: Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
#38Sadly, after all these years, ion3 still remains unmatched - on any platform.
Anyone who has used it will agree. Sadly most people haven't.
Re: Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
#39I do find tiling wm without removing the window borders kind of ... well not really useless, but not all that practival.
Especially on OS X, where the hot keys are pretty well standardized and you can be pretty sure about what Command-Q does, spending all that room on window borders and few buttons seems so wasteful.
Re: Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
#40For my 13" Macbook Pro I use two 27" screens and Divvy and hot keys: +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | | | | A | B | | | | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | | | | | | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | | | | | | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ | 5 | 6 | 7 | | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ I can place a scree…
>I use two 27" screens
The Window Manager is clearly aimed at large screens.