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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

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Post by chc »

colinramsay wrote: post #4

This looks great, but my favourite thing might be the Principles section: > Hydra must be stable. It should never crash > Hydra must be lightweight... never use more than 10 MB of memory > API should be completely transparent > API must not be bloated I think these principles should be the standard to which we all hold our software. Looking forward to testing this out! Edit to say: it would be really great to see som…

I don't think "Must never use more than 10 MB of memory" is a reasonable standard to hold all software to.

Re: Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API

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Post by paultannenbaum »

I have a somewhat related question for anyone with chrome devtools experience.

Is it possible to control the size (width and height) of the chrome debugger panel using the devtools api? I want to build a chrome extension that provides window management like Hydra or spectacle, but for the developer tools window. Building hot keys that could do things like send the console window exactly half screen in any direction or full screen, and also the same controls for the second console window. I spend a lot of time in the developer panel (as I'm sure many people do) and think a window manager could be a huge help. I read the api docs fairly thoroughly and also posted this same question to the google group and the stack overflow group with no response to either. Anyone out there know?

Re: Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API

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Post by sdegutis »

shoyer wrote: post #94

Is there support for saving/restoring window layouts? I find that feature very handy in Slate when removing/adding external monitors.

There's an issue in the 1.1 milestone for adding the event that an external monitor was added/removed. Once you have that, I don't see what's stopping you from creating this feature :)

Re: Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API

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Post by kennywinker »

chc wrote: post #91
colinramsay wrote: post #4

This looks great, but my favourite thing might be the Principles section: > Hydra must be stable. It should never crash > Hydra must be lightweight... never use more than 10 MB of memory > API should be completely transparent > API must not be bloated I think these principles should be the standard to which we all hold our software. Looking forward to testing this out! Edit to say: it would be really great to see som…

I don't think "Must never use more than 10 MB of memory" is a reasonable standard to hold all software to.

Nope, but I would venture to guess that most software would be improved by sticking to that.

Re: Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API

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Post by the_gipsy »

peatmoss wrote: post #50
typicalbender wrote: post #20

I miss my days on Ubuntu with i3 tiling window manager. I currently use an app called Amethyst[1] but find it to be a bit buggy at times and just doesn't live up to i3 or awesome. I wonder if hydra can be used as a launch point to create a better tiling window manager for OSX. I'm not familiar with the APIs that OSX exposes, if any, to do things like window management but it would be awesome to see some more control…

Amethyst is the first tiling window manager I've used for any substantial length of time. I made my desktop transition from NetBSD -> OSX before tiling window managers were really much used. Amethyst gets props from me in being the first that has worked intuitively and stabily such that I've actually stuck with it for any length of time. As for Linux, I realize that I'm personally in a place where leaving OSX would c…

I installed Ubuntu with xmonad on my work mac after one terrible month with OSX's pathetic window manager/amethyst/hacks.

Re: Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API

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Post by platz »

typicalbender wrote: post #20

I miss my days on Ubuntu with i3 tiling window manager. I currently use an app called Amethyst[1] but find it to be a bit buggy at times and just doesn't live up to i3 or awesome. I wonder if hydra can be used as a launch point to create a better tiling window manager for OSX. I'm not familiar with the APIs that OSX exposes, if any, to do things like window management but it would be awesome to see some more control…

i3 is great - currently solving my needs quite nicely.

Re: Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API

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Post by sdegutis »

hamburg wrote: post #29

I 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.

Looks pretty neat. Reminds me of Moom, and the defaults Windows 7 drag-to-position features.

Re: Hydra: A lightweight OS X window manager with a powerful API

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Post by kirklove »

Synergyse wrote: post #54
Dirlewanger wrote: post #41

Another amazing OS X WM: Sizeup ( https://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ ) No config, all shortcuts bound to Ctrl + Option + Command + arrows and a few others. They have an unlimited free trial, but pay for it if you really use it.

+1 for SizeUp, tried most of them and prefer this app.

+2. Can't live without it. I'm paralyzed on a machine without it (or Alfred)
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