try hammerspoon. it isn't a tiling window manager, per se - it's more of an all-purpose desktop extension framework. it is fully customizable, has a well-documented API, and a large community. for window arrangement the hs.grid component is plenty for me. see an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRJ0477KFp8
Check out https://github.com/agzam/spacehammer if you're using Hammerspoon.
I like rectangle [0]. It fits my needs well enough without requiring disabling SIP. I especially like the “repeated key presses resize a window on the same side” feature, so I can get cycle the size of the window on the right side of the screen from 1/2->1/3->2/3 easily. I miss i3 sometimes and this ain’t an identical replacement but it gets the job done! Turns out I don’t move my windows all that often anyways. [0]:…
Rectangle and Spectacle before it are really great for managing window placement and sizing. I wouldn't use a mac without it. But I don't use a mac anymore. I use linux desktops and there's just nothing quite like Rectangle. For a long while, I used a tweaked fork of pygrid. These days I use wayland compositors and don't have a good option. I've been meaning to hack something together to work with floating windows on…
I still just use Spectacle. Still works, has never in years given me any trouble whatsoever—zero jank, never crashes, just works—so haven’t bothered to switch. Being able to get its behavior with same key-combos on any other OS I might seriously use, with similar perfect levels of stability and reliability, is now table-stakes for me.
Everyone in my company uses a company provided macbook, but I use my own Windows Desktop. When presenting stuff to my boss, I'll use windows shortcuts for tiling windows (Win + Arrow keys) and my boss said that's the one feature he thinks is missing from macOS that Windows is really good at
Another bit is that Explorer's Save File modal does autocomplete for file names, which has the side effect of immediately alerting you that a file name is already in use before you submit, but is also massively helpful when you're naming consecutive downloads with a naming pattern.
That latter case would be supercharged if Finder supported this on macOS as the global text edit bindings are more ergonomic for me than those shared between Windows and Linux.
I like rectangle [0]. It fits my needs well enough without requiring disabling SIP. I especially like the “repeated key presses resize a window on the same side” feature, so I can get cycle the size of the window on the right side of the screen from 1/2->1/3->2/3 easily. I miss i3 sometimes and this ain’t an identical replacement but it gets the job done! Turns out I don’t move my windows all that often anyways. [0]:…
I similarly find something like Yabai a bit too heavy-handed for my needs, and instead prefer Moom[0]. I find that I only need tiling occasionally, and for that Moom excels since it doesn’t add any new key shortcuts to memorize and is only ever visibly present when hovering your cursor over a window’s green button. Its Aero Snap equivalent is optional and turned off by default too, which is great for me (I trigger Ae…
Moom fan here too. I got as far in the readme for Yabai where it says you need another utility just to set keyboard shortcuts and decided to stick with what I know and love.
For anyone looking to dip their toes into Yabai and tiling windows, I recommend the following setup. Enable full tiling only on a couple workspaces. Desktop 1 can remain in floating layout, just as though you’d never installed Yabai in the first place. Then tile Desktop 2 and as many others as you want. The one other tip I have is to have an easy hotkey for toggling full screen mode. Toggling an app into full screen…
I usually have too many windows open (upwards of 20). And yabai tries to tile all of them. Is there any way to say "have a maximum of 3 windows horizontally and but for the left most tile, split vertically into two if needed"?
This still requires disabling SIP, I see. That's just not an option for me. (I have done quite a bit of research and testing on these, and keep using a mixture of Moom and Phoenix - here's my full list: https://taoofmac.com/space/apps/window_managers )
It seems to work just fine with SIP enabled. I just switched and it seems to be a lot better than Amethyst. Amethyst had a lot of issues with focus follows mouse and dropdown dialogs that seems to just work with Yabai
Seems like SIP is only needed for system dialogs etc so has the same limitations as Amethyst
Why wouldn't apple allow to remove all animations when switching desktops, without disabling SIP? https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/434555/can-you-com... Native keyboard shortcuts are there for all to use to switch desktops, but the fading in/out animations that last around 1s completely prevent fast desktop switches as is so useful in i3/sway.
this is one of my biggest annoyances about macOS. I actually want to keep the vast majority of animations, the only one I want gone is the desktop transition, because it feels so jarring.
Either make the transition instant, or bring back the old behavior where the dock and desktop remain static during the slide animation.
I've always wondered why people enjoy tiling window managers. Personally I don't really grasp it. If I work with a lot of papers and documents on a desk, I don't "tile" them, I keep them sort of organically in front of me.
And whatever app I need to use should ideally be straight in front of me. But that's just me, maybe I haven't had a proper tiling experience yet and thus I haven't seen the light.