And for all the 'not-so-power-users', you can use Spectacle - http://spectacleapp.com/ (Free)
And if you don't need it to be free, there's Sizeup http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ . Spectacle looks nearly as nice as Sizeup though.
Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
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Re: Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
#52It looks like this allows setting focus without using the mouse and without tabbing. That's a great feature just by itself.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
How do you get true fullscreen mode in Emacs on OS X?
I have (set-frame-parameter nil 'fullscreen 'fullboth) in my .emacs, and it just works (GNU Emacs 24.2.91.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS apple-appkit-1038.36)).
Re: Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
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/
Thanks, that does look quite awesome!
Re: Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
#57Slate also recently started supporting configs written in JavaScript (https://github.com/jigish/slate/wiki/JavaScript-Configs) which is very powerful.
Re: Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
#58I have been using Slate since that last post came out on HN (a few months ago?) and am absolutely loving it.
Combined with binding your caps lock key to "hyper", I have a whole suite of customized keyboard shortcuts that are super useful!
A recent version of Slate fixed automatically detecting your screen layout, so whenever I plug/unplug my external monitor it will automatically re-layout my screens.
Re: Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
How do you get true fullscreen mode in Emacs on OS X?
If using macports then install using
port install emacs-app +fullscreen
Re: Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
#60Or, if he wants something even closer to xmonad:
https://github.com/fjolnir/xnomad
It works really well. Been using it for a while. The only real complaint I have about it is that it's based on xmonad instead of dwm, so a chosen unfocused window swaps with the focused window when you change focus instead of the formerly focused window being pushed to the top of a stack. But for working as a userspace program on OS X with no real modifications, it's really nice.
I've tried Slate, Divvy, and at least 5 or 6 others. xnomad is the only one I like.