Is there anything like this for Windows?
Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API
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Re: Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API
#22Wouldn't F-Script[1] achieve the same? I'm not sure how much love it's received for Mavericks but it's a great way to peek into any Cocoa app and call methods.
Re: Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API
#23Any idea what his require grid is referring to in his own config file?
link - https://github.com/sdegutis/dotfiles/blob/osx/home/.hydra/in...
Re: Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API
#24For the "closed-source-but-non-programming-power-user" alternative to this, I'm a huge advocate of BetterTouchTool ( http://www.boastr.net/ ). You can easily bind window snaps to everything from keypresses, to four-finger-sweeps on the trackpad, to dragging window titlebars to the screen corners. Also it's so much fun to infuriate friends when they try to use my trackpad and it moves windows all over the place.
I Quickly had a look on all the window manager alternatives mentioned here. Currently I use flexiglass, but I use it for one reason only. It allows me to move windows like in linux.
When holding Mouse button 1 + alt anywhere in the window I can move it. I really like this feature, I never use the titlebar to move windows.
Do any of the alternatives (or hydra it self) allow me to do this? I'd like to try them out. See if it has advantages over flexiglass.
Re: Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API
#25I've been using Slate[1] for a while which may be worth considering as an alternative. Hydra does look pretty slick, though! [0] https://github.com/jigish/slate
Been using Slate as well but it's not maintained anymore. I wanted to switch to Phoenix - https://github.com/sdegutis/Phoenix/ which is from the same guy that this Hydra. I think the idea of Hydra was the rewrite it in Lua but I can't speak for him. Will definitely try it out asap!
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#26Welp, my sample config's REPL command was broken in the beta that everyone downloaded. And my first attempt at fixing it didn't actually work. It works on Beta 6. Nothing like my project being #2 on HN to make me rush enough to need two tries to fix a 1-line bug, heh.
Re: Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API
#27I've been using Slate[1] for a while which may be worth considering as an alternative. Hydra does look pretty slick, though! [0] https://github.com/jigish/slate
Been using Slate as well but it's not maintained anymore. I wanted to switch to Phoenix - https://github.com/sdegutis/Phoenix/ which is from the same guy that this Hydra. I think the idea of Hydra was the rewrite it in Lua but I can't speak for him. Will definitely try it out asap!
Hydra is indeed my successor to Phoenix. Phoenix and Zephyros (and AppGrid if you can find it) are deprecated in favor of Hydra. But I can't just delete those projects, as existing users may not want to port their configs to Lua. Oh how I wish I could though.
Re: Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you give an example of the kinds of samples you would like to see, and where you would look for them? (I presume under the Examples section on the README page?) That will help me know what to put there.
You have a link to your own config and some screenshots of it in action, maybe it would be good to pull out the relevant sections of your config so people can replicate what they see in the screenshots?
Not a bad idea, will do. Thanks.
Re: Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API
#29I wrote my own window manager a few weeks ago: http://zonesformac.com
Emphasis is on support for multiple screens, ease of use and snappiness. (which doesn't come across in my video I guess...)
I know my download page sucks, but if anyone wants to try and give me feedback, I'd be happy to read it. Send an email.
Re: Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API
#30Looks promising but how is multi monitor support? And how easy would it be to detect whether I am on my 1 screen laptop or 3 screen desktop, and use different setups accordingly?