Is there a good tiling wm for Windows too?
Normally I use i3 on linux, but the few times I have to use Windows I really miss it.
TylerWM - a tiling window manager for OSX
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Re: TylerWM - a tiling window manager for OSX
#12wow, the quicktime plugin installation routine in chrome is pretty horrible, then it hung for about 10 seconds. arg! to detail: visit website, get yellow bar for missing plugin install plugin reload tab browser hung for a bit told plugin was out of date, clicked update got sent to apple site to download new version downloaded binary, uac checks etc update went ahead, then asked to close all my quicktime applications,…
Agree. Won't even play for me when I got the plugin started.
Re: TylerWM - a tiling window manager for OSX
#13There is also ShiftIt " rel="nofollow">https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt> , although I haven't tried it yet. The functionality of TylerWM seems quite simple. I wonder wether there is any Open Source clone of it.
From what I can see, ShiftIt is like divvy, a tiling application: you open the application then manually tile it to the screen (and if you have no space left, you have to make it… again manually).
TylerWM is a "true" window manager, it takes care of laying out the windows automatically on its own (based on your settings).
Re: TylerWM - a tiling window manager for OSX
#14wow, the quicktime plugin installation routine in chrome is pretty horrible, then it hung for about 10 seconds. arg! to detail: visit website, get yellow bar for missing plugin install plugin reload tab browser hung for a bit told plugin was out of date, clicked update got sent to apple site to download new version downloaded binary, uac checks etc update went ahead, then asked to close all my quicktime applications,…
Agree. Won't even play for me when I got the plugin started.
I obviously havent rebooted, but visiting the website and hitting "run anyway" now causes the same hang, then the tab closes with no further notification.
needless to say that plugin is being removed,
to the author: check out elements, and a quick nod to sublime video
Re: TylerWM - a tiling window manager for OSX
#15Oh god please include the screenshots. The video won't load on my machine, because I have no QuickTime installed. Or atleast some fallback on youtube video.
Not much to show, sadly, since it's a window manager the interesting part is seeing it… manage windows.
You can see some screenshots on the MAS page: http://itunes.apple.com/app/tyler-window-manager/id446759787... but the behavioral difference with e.g. Divvy or other tiling applications can not be expressed through screenshots.
Re: TylerWM - a tiling window manager for OSX
#16Oh god please include the screenshots. The video won't load on my machine, because I have no QuickTime installed. Or atleast some fallback on youtube video.
There are screenshots on the MAS (itunes.apple.com, really) page, linked at the top.
Re: TylerWM - a tiling window manager for OSX
#17There's also Moom [1], but the reliance on arrow keys for most of the key-based functionality is annoying. I've mailed the author to ask if this could be configurable (so that I could use hjkl instead), no reply as yet though.
[1] http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moom/id419330170?mt=12
Edit: Developer replied, turns out this functionality is already there - problem solved (for me)!
Re: TylerWM - a tiling window manager for OSX
#18There's also Moom [1], but the reliance on arrow keys for most of the key-based functionality is annoying. I've mailed the author to ask if this could be configurable (so that I could use hjkl instead), no reply as yet though. [1] http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/moom/id419330170?mt=12 Edit: Developer replied, turns out this functionality is already there - problem solved (for me)!
You might want to take a look at Window Magnet [0], which has the key configurability you want.
As noted elsewhere, Moom, like others, is not a WM. I still like those nifty utilities though.
[0] http://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/window-magnet/id441258766?mt=...
Re: TylerWM - a tiling window manager for OSX
#19Tyler is not ready for prime time. I saw this video a few monthes back, got excited and bought it. It took me less than 24 hours to turn it off due to various issues.
It does not work well with various OS windows, windows like the adium contact list and other 'non standard sized' windows.
If you use it with spaces, it often loses your settings if you tell it not to use on space number X.
I could go on with the variety of issues.
I would love a great tiling window manager for OS X. I use XMonad on linux all day at work and would really like to have the same joy when using OS X.
Re: TylerWM - a tiling window manager for OSX
#20This looks great but after browsing their twitter feed [1] I can see that they have troubles getting updates approved in the app store because of the sandboxing.