Cool, but I'd first have to be sold on tiling managers being a good idea in the first place. I like to imagine my desktop as well.. my physical desktop. It's got papers on it, books, it's all overlapping and I usually put the stuff I am working on in the center. That's the issue with tiling managers for me - it introduces a structure where you probably don't need it.
AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS
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#153How does RCMD + Rectangle Pro compare to AeroSpace?
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#154Is there a way to limit using the Right side Option key and spare the Left Option Key for the OS?
The good thing about RCMD is I can specify which specific key, consuming only 1 OPT or CMD key while saving the other key for the OS shortcuts
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I'm curious, what kind of features that are not found on Linux ?
For one, tools like Shortcat aren’t really possible on Linux afaict, since it relies on MacOS’s fantastic accessibility API. https://shortcat.app/
> Search and summon windows
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> Shortcat lets you search window titles for more precise multi-tasking.
StumpWM has this and it's a beautiful thing (default binding: prefix+"). I got in the habit of titling terminal and browser windows with the topic name of whatever I was working on. Made for very fast switching to find what I wanted among many windows/topics.
Sadly I've needed to switch to Wayland and StumpWM is X11 only but it has a successor called Mahogany[1] that's being worked on.
Oh, and both are written in Common Lisp if you like tweaking your WM from the REPL.
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#156Man I hate the name. Has nothing to do with aerospace, but it does seem like a fad in software to take on some stolen valor from a far more interesting field.
You know what really ruffles my feathers? When aerospace constantly steals names from the far more interesting field of ornithology.
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Not seeing a way to get the window currently under the mouse pointer, but this is pretty interesting - thanks!
You can get the positions of every windows, the position of the mouse pointer, and you can focus windows.
This is really cool, I'm gonna try and implement it!
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Fwiw I have yabai configured for instant desktop switching
That's what I thought I did, but I can't, for example, just move to space 7 or something. I need to create a new space with a number I can't control and switch to that. That new workspace might not be next to the previous space I was working in, so I need to cycle through multiple spaces. Aerospace on the other hand just lets you choose a numbered workspace and work with that. Would love to see your yabairc if you ca…
Here's my .yabairc https://github.com/kcrwfrd/dotfiles/blob/master/link/.yabair...
Looking through it I don't see a setting for instant space switching... I think maybe it's provided by default when you install the scripting addition? https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issues/1527
I have keybindings in my skhd for focusing spaces: https://github.com/kcrwfrd/dotfiles/blob/master/skhd/space
I usually just keep 10 spaces at all times rather than creating new ones on demand.
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#159This is great! I find the one thing I miss the most from i3 that none of the macOS tiling managers seem to have is i3bar, or a minimal bar that displays what space I'm on, how many spaces I have, cpu/ram usage, etc. I've tried to find configs that emulate this with Spacebar [0], but haven't been able to find anything [0] https://github.com/cmacrae/spacebar
Have you tried https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyBar ?
Yeah I've seen SketchyBar, what I'm more interested in is the look of base i3
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#160This is great! I've been using Amethyst so far, but I immediately liked Aerospace more. The main gripe I have with Amethyst is that it throws windows in a very sluggish and unreliable fashion. With Aerospace, windows get moved to different workspaces/monitors in a flash and the move never fails. I also like how it completely ditches MacOS built-in workspaces, which, as the author argued, is rather unsatisfactory, in…
yabai works fine without disabling SIP. I haven't tried Aerospace yet, so can't offer a feature comparison though.