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.
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Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X
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Re: Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X
#102Earlier 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.
Check BetterSnapTool!
Re: Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X
#103I 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…
Have you tried TotalSpaces? It is my personal favourite so far, though I haven't tried all the others you listed, so would love to hear some other opinions on it...Thanks :)
Re: Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X
#104I'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.
Yep, take a look at this:
Re: Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X
#105I wish there was a window manager such as this but where you could put the application into full screen mode. So have two programs running in full screen mode side by side. Sublime and others (iterm) look so much less distracting without their window frames.
Re: Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X
#106I'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).
I mean, its often slower than hand tuned assembly mixed with Fortran if that's what you mean..
Otoh,most things are
Re: Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X
#107No one mentioned this one yet, it's not free but works pretty well with Windows 7-like snapping too: http://www.nulana.com/flexiglass/
Re: Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It is mentioned on this mailing list post: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mjolnir-io/sRimOiYqM...