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Re: Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X

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Post by victorhooi »

AndrewHampton wrote: post #53
ianyh wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would 100% recommend Mjolnir as an actively-developed Slate alternative. sdegutis has a solid history of writing great window management stuff.

Mjolnir isn't actually under active development anymore. A few months ago sdegutis decided to write a closed source alternative which has not yet been released. The mjolnir community does have an actively developed fork though called hammerspoon. http://www.hammerspoon.org/ I would recommend either of them, but hammerspoon has a smoother onboarding process.

Hmm, do you have a source for that? (That Mjolnir isn't being developed).

I just checked https://github.com/sdegutis/mjolnir, and I don't see any mention of this, and the last commit was from November 15.

Re: Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X

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Post by codygman »

shawn-furyan wrote: post #22

I've been using Amethyst as my WM for a couple months now, and have used XMonad for significant stretches in the past. Amethyst tries to bring the XMonad experience to OSX. I think it does an admirable job, but there are some distinctions. Amethyst is simpler to set up, and is more forgiving to newcomers. It has a GUI for configuration, and an easily accessible list of commands. It also works on top of OSX's WM, so i…

To me the performance of XMonad detracts from the trope that Haskell isn't performant (which I've been hearing/seeing lately).

Re: Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X

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Post by robbles »

As someone who's relatively new to tiling window managers (I've used manual ones like Divvy and Moom quite a bit though): is this approach only really effective with large monitors?

I've given Amethyst and other WMs a shot in the past and been instantly annoyed when they automatically tucked away windows into unusably small configurations. Is this part of the learning curve and addressed by proper configuration, or should be avoiding this for use on small screens? e.g. a MB Air 13"

Re: Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X

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Post by embwbam »

ianyh wrote: post #31

I'm the Amethyst developer. I'm happy to answer any questions people have. I'm hopping on a cross-country plane flight in about an hour, but I have a layover. I'll try get back to people as soon as I can.

I've had this idea for a while and I'm not sure if it's possible from your video. I have a code window, and ideally it would be next to everything: a documentation brower, a test browser, and a terminal. There isn't enough room for that.

It would be awesome if I could cycle through "spaces" that laid the same code window out next to multiple different things. Like maybe 1 is code | browser and 2 is terminal | code.

Possible?

Re: Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X

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Post by lukeholder »

ecnahc515 wrote: post #67
simi_ wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I swear by Spectacle. After trying a number of other wms, this is the one I ended up using for more than a year now. It strikes a good balance for me between features and simplicity, and the keyboard shortcuts are intuitive and don't clash with other apps (like iTerm, Fantastical, etc).

You should try BetterTouchTool. It can do everything spectacle can, but has a lot more features, and support for trackpad gestures, and other nice things. It even has draggable window snapping like Windows/Ubuntu Unity.

I swear by BetterTouchTool +1

Re: Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X

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Post by Vecrios »

ianyh wrote: post #51
rcknight wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems to me that there are 2 big benefits over sizeup (though i'm basing this entirely on their website, i've not used it) 1 - With sizeup you have to manually move your apps around. With this, new windows are automatically tiled (and you can then move things around afterwards with the keyboard shortcuts) 2 - This seems like it supports more complex layouts (with various layouts built in)

That is generally correct. I wrote a longer comment about this but SizeUp is about manually managing windows and Amethyst is about letting software manage windows for you. It's generally a matter of personal preference which you prefer.

In case anyone looking for the referenced comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8769044

Re: Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X

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Post by inDigiNeous »

simi_ wrote: post #61
bombtrack wrote: post #7

I posted this yesterday in the thread about the Rust-written window manager, but it's relevant here as well. There are plenty of apps that provide varying levels of window-manager functionality to OS X. I would try a couple out and see which feels right to you. I have tried most of them, and personally prefer Moom. http://manytricks.com/moom/ http://mizage.com/divvy/ http://ianyh.com/amethyst/ http://spectacleapp.com…

I swear by Spectacle. After trying a number of other wms, this is the one I ended up using for more than a year now. It strikes a good balance for me between features and simplicity, and the keyboard shortcuts are intuitive and don't clash with other apps (like iTerm, Fantastical, etc).

Thanks, Spectacle seems something like I've been looking for, but didn't realize exists! :)

Re: Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X

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Post by cma »

embwbam wrote: post #94
ianyh wrote: post #31

I'm the Amethyst developer. I'm happy to answer any questions people have. I'm hopping on a cross-country plane flight in about an hour, but I have a layover. I'll try get back to people as soon as I can.

I've had this idea for a while and I'm not sure if it's possible from your video. I have a code window, and ideally it would be next to everything: a documentation brower, a test browser, and a terminal. There isn't enough room for that. It would be awesome if I could cycle through "spaces" that laid the same code window out next to multiple different things. Like maybe 1 is code | browser and 2 is terminal | code. P…

You can do that in awesomewm with tags, just in case you seem a similar named concept in Amethyst

Re: Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X

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Post by exDM69 »

cma wrote: post #98
embwbam wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've had this idea for a while and I'm not sure if it's possible from your video. I have a code window, and ideally it would be next to everything: a documentation brower, a test browser, and a terminal. There isn't enough room for that. It would be awesome if I could cycle through "spaces" that laid the same code window out next to multiple different things. Like maybe 1 is code | browser and 2 is terminal | code. P…

You can do that in awesomewm with tags, just in case you seem a similar named concept in Amethyst

Yes, this is definitely possible with tags in awesome.

"tags" are an extension of "workspaces". But rather than being a one-to-one-to-one relation (one window is in one workspace and you view one workspace at a time), tags are many-to-many-to-many. A window can be present in many tags, and you can view more than one tag at a time.

Most of the time, I use tags just like "normal" workspaces.

The GPs use case may be solved in two ways using tags, either by viewing two workspaces at the same time (the other one is code tag, and the other one is switched between docs, browser, tests) or by having the code editor present in several tags.

Re: Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X

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Post by kybernetyk »

ianyh wrote: post #31

I'm the Amethyst developer. I'm happy to answer any questions people have. I'm hopping on a cross-country plane flight in about an hour, but I have a layover. I'll try get back to people as soon as I can.

Is there any way to turn off window shadows in OS X? Having the main window draw shadows over neighboring windows is really ugly.
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