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AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS

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Re: AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by eviks »

mbreese wrote: post #62
darksaints wrote: post #56

Somewhat on subject: does anybody feel like the macos-style application menu that is disconnected from the application window has outlived its welcome? I feel like apple gets so much right from a UX perspective, but in a world of multi-monitor setups and common cross application workflows, I find it absolutely bizarre that I might have to scroll across 2+ monitors to get to a dropdown menu for an application that I'm…

I like the detached menu, but mainly because it makes the application window smaller with less overall decoration. With multiple applications open, each window having menu bar decorations seems cluttered to me. I like the minimalist and consistent nature of it all. However, it does get more complicated with multiple monitors and I don’t know of the solution here. You’re right that the UX falls when you’re trying to w…

On Windows it's more minimalist - menu is hidden right until you need it instead of always taking precious space

Re: AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by barnabee »

samatman wrote: post #101
TachyonicBytes wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder if following the mouse for focus would be doable without disabling SIP. It's one of the features I didn't even see in other macOS WM.

The problem with focus-follows-mouse on macOS is the top menu bar. If you had it, and tried to mouse to the menu, the menu would switch out from under you. I have some notes in a file somewhere about how a Mac-native focus-follows-mouse could even work, because I want it. It would end up being a rather different implementation than the X Windows style.

I have an Alfred workflow to search the menu, so not being able to move the mouse there isn’t a big issue.

Re: AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by xiwenc »

anonzzzies wrote: post #10

I have been trying this for a few months now. I3 is quite perfect and Aerospace is a nice try, but it’s very far from i3; it’s quite flaky. I guess this is because Mac OS X doesn’t actually allow full control like Unix WMs do? I have not found anything better though, but I will install Linux when it’s working well on Apple Silicon. Only i3 is at least for me enough reason to use Linux as Mac OS X, again imho, is terr…

Got the same issue. I am still to find a WM that can deal with native OSX fullscreen mode.

Aerospace goes bongers when i have native full screen. It will get confused on what to focus. My case:

Workspace 1: terminal Workspace 2: slack app Open chrome in native full screen

Now try to switch to workspace 1.

Will give it more time without native fullscreen apps for a while. Hopefully it works better.

Re: AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by pech0rin »

idle_zealot wrote: post #67

I daily drive this and my verdict is: it's the best way to manage windows on a Mac, but falls short of i3/sway. In particular, support for re-arranging windows by dragging them to positions relative to one another is extremely limited in that it's not able to create new vertical or horizontal splits the way you can in sway, which forces me to take awkward detours with keyboard commands to get to the window layout I w…

haven’t used this one but I use yabai and it works exactly as you describe

Re: AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by Jaywalker9988 »

Nice!! I'm going to have to play with this. Now what I really want to see, and I'm surprised doesn't exist, is an addon for or replacement to Spotlight that works like dmenu in that I can write scripts which use it for input like:

  printf 'one\ntwo\nthree' | dmenu -l 3 -p "Which one? "
I use that in so many scripts on my main machines and would love to share them with macOS folks. I'm really surprised its not in something like Alfred.

Maybe it exits and I don't know about it?? If not, maybe someone will add it to this open source Spotlight replacement I found: https://github.com/techrisdev/Snap

Re: AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by agos »

cybrox wrote: post #102
avidphantasm wrote: post #8

Can we stop pissing and moaning about notarization? macOS isn’t Linux and this isn’t 1994. Given the cybersecurity threats of the world today, signing by a central authority makes some amount of sense for apps on consumer OSes.

Signing by a central authority makes a lot of sense... if only that authority would sign off on the software being secure instead of the software fitting their current mood and business strategy.

is there any sign whatsoever that notarization is the latter instead of the former?

Re: AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by agos »

darksaints wrote: post #56

Somewhat on subject: does anybody feel like the macos-style application menu that is disconnected from the application window has outlived its welcome? I feel like apple gets so much right from a UX perspective, but in a world of multi-monitor setups and common cross application workflows, I find it absolutely bizarre that I might have to scroll across 2+ monitors to get to a dropdown menu for an application that I'm…

if you configure your displays to have separate spaces you'll also have a menubar on every display
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