AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS • Hacker News Board

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

#171

Post by vehemenz » Tue, Jun 11, 2024, 2:02 PM UTC

I hope I'm not too late to this thread, but I have a couple comments and a question.

The experience is better than Amethyst or Yabai, but there is a learning curve. I think it would help if the documentation was one single searchable page, instead of several subpages.

The default keybindings interfere with macOS's special characters, so I would recommend changing the modifier keys away from option+ and option+shift+.

One thing I couldn't figure out. My setup is as follows:

    h_tiles
    └── v_accordion
        ├── window1
        └── window2
    └── v_accordion
        ├── window1
        └── window2

I would like to limit the total number of horizontal tiles--more than two is too many--but I can't figure out how to make new windows automatically go into either accordion stack instead of a new horizontal tile. Is there a way to set mins and maxes per tree level? This is one of those features that Amethyst has that seems like a no-brainer.

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

#172

Post by Jaywalker9988 » Wed, Jun 12, 2024, 4:16 AM UTC

irth wrote: post #162

Jaywalker9988 wrote: post #161

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, Ive seen that, but it would be a hard sell getting macOS guys to run that and replace the spotlight keybind with that entirely. I tend to agree with them too.. I just would like to see Spotlight have the ability to do dmenu scripting stuff. There's no reason it couldn't except lack of vision. I honestly think Apple would be half keen to do it themselves, they just probably haven't seen the idea to steal it yet

I implemented something like this as a Raycast extension[0]. Demo attached[1]. [0] https://github.com/irth/dmenu_raycast [1] https://akko-cdn.hackrc.dev/media/e34cdc7683fece5260124ef47c...

Amazing!! I had never heard of Raycast! I'll be checking this out first thing in the morning! Thank you!

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

#173

Post by irth » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 3:52 PM UTC

Jaywalker9988 wrote: post #172

irth wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I implemented something like this as a Raycast extension[0]. Demo attached[1]. [0] https://github.com/irth/dmenu_raycast [1] https://akko-cdn.hackrc.dev/media/e34cdc7683fece5260124ef47c...

Amazing!! I had never heard of Raycast! I'll be checking this out first thing in the morning! Thank you!

let me know if you have any suggestions. i’ll probably try to make it more self contained (e.g. make it possible to install the script into PATH from the extension itself) and eventually get it into Raycast extension store (haven’t read their guidelines yet though)