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Hyprland: A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

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Re: Hyprland: A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

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I've never liked animations in interfaces like this. It was fun to play with when Compiz was new, but it doesn't make the tool any more useful or pleasant for me to use. At least it's not as bad as the OSX "magic lamp" minimize.

Re: Hyprland: A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor

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I'd love to take advantage of this incredible tool in MacOS. Managing windows on MacOS is quite a challenge.

I sorely miss tiling WMs when I use MacOS; Amethyst and yabai just seem to big out all the time, lose track of windows, get confused by native tabs, and deal poorly with windows that force maximum/minimum sizes. I've concluded that MacOS's window model just really doesn't mesh with tiling. My current solution, after much experimentation with tools like Rectangle, Hookshot, and Spectacle, is to use Swish[1]. It feels sort of like an inside-out version of how I use Sway on linux. With Sway each window that I open is tiled onto the current desktop, then I re-balance the split or reposition the window with my mouse, and set the window to float if it doesn't cooperate. With Swish each window opens as floating, but by swiping on its title bar I can tile it into whatever position I want. This defaulting to floating works better on MacOS where the frequency of uncooperative windows is much higher than on linux. The killer feature of Swish for me is that it keeps track of the grid you make by swiping windows into place and maintains it even when you resize or reposition windows relative to one another, much like i3/sway. It's still quite frustrating though that I have to pay $16 for an app to make window management bearable. This is a basic OS feature that I've come to take for granted.

1: https://highlyopinionated.co/swish/

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