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Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Re: Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by koiueo »

chaxor wrote: post #30
thinker5555 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I haven't had the same experience with Yabai. I've been using it happily and without issue since April, and I don't think I've had to restart it once. Before Yabai I was using Amethyst, but like your experience with Yabai, I felt like it would suddenly stop working and needed to be restarted. Maybe your experience would be flipped. https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst

I tried amethyst but it was essentially useless to emulate an awesomewm or sway like experience. Switching to asahilinux was a *far* better solution. Not really sure what the use of macOS for me is when asahi exists now.

Is Asahi your daily driver on MBP?

Re: Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by ferriswil »

verdverm wrote: post #132

Are there recommended 3rd party enhancing apps for cmd-tab? I'm looking for something that shows all windows for an app, per app, and maybe doesn't switch the app to finder when you cancel the cmd-tab

I use AltTab [0] for this. I find using a mac without it horrendous.

[0]: https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/

Re: Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by ar_lan »

poidos wrote: post #28

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]:…

> It fits my needs well enough without requiring disabling SIP.

This is not a requirement for yabai.

Re: Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by erybodyknows »

poidos wrote: post #28

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 miss rectangle the most after switching from macOS to Linux. Ironically I end up using the mouse more on Linux because I haven’t found a similar solution for window sizing keyboard shortcuts.

Re: Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by gigatexal »

erybodyknows wrote: post #138
poidos wrote: post #28

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 miss rectangle the most after switching from macOS to Linux. Ironically I end up using the mouse more on Linux because I haven’t found a similar solution for window sizing keyboard shortcuts.

sway, i3, bswm, awesomewm, so many tiling window managers on Linux that you don't need the mouse for. There's even tiling making it's way into Gnome and KDE with the former having some good extensions and the latter just baking it in and getting better with every release.

Re: Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by gigatexal »

I would love to do this and maybe move back to MacOS but ... this seems like a lot of faffing about for something that was not designed to be done and something that is constantly at risk of being nerfed by some future update or security thing such as Apple disabling the SIP disablement ability or something along those lines.

But in Linux the choose-your-own-adventure that is the pluggable desktop model is that something like sway or i3 or other tiling window manager or a plugin for Gnome for example is much more in line with how the system was meant to be used and is very much not trying to shoehorn something in if any of that makes sense.

Of course the dev(s) that put this together and it's other projects are hackers in the truest form and their efforts are to be applauded. I'll continue to show them praise but keep using i3/sway on Linux for the time being. (funny enough tiling window managers was why I left MacOS for Linux.)

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