I love yabai and use it every day. It’s the only Mac OS is tolerable for me vs Linux with a WM.
I am sad though that you lose a good chunk of functionality without disabling SIP, which isn’t allowed for work devices
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#22All I want (for christmas) is an 'Always on top' opton for windows on macos.
I'd pay real actual money, as I suspect would many others.
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#23ShiftIt still working basically fine for me after a decade:
Re: Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
#24everytime I get a new computer it takes me 5 seconds to remember that I can't live without sizeup.
But I can never remember the name of the app because it's just ctr-opt-cmd-left in my head.
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#25Interesting. I've been using Rectangle for MacOS and it's worked fine so far for me. Will keep this in mind if I ever want to switch.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
You might try Magnet. It's $10 on the mac app store. I've had zero issues with it, and it has some problems sorted that other tools don't or haven't always, namely correctly tiling across monitors. I used to use Rectangle, which is open source and frankly pretty good but at the time I was using it had some warts. macOS' window management seems to not be entirely transparent. I don't know all the details, but this is…
I've been using Magnet for years. It's simple and reliable.
Has anyone transitioned from moom to magnet?
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#27https://www.hammerspoon.org/ is amazing. Not quite the same as Yabai but I cant live without it!
I have an alpha guide I wrote on scripting macOS with Hammerspoon if anyone's interested! There's probably some editing issues and I've been meaning to move it to the actual domain/clean it up to release, but it's got good info in it now:
https://learn-hammerspoon-0x8080.netlify.app/
I have a chapter on window management as part of the guide.
Re: Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
#28I 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.
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#29Reading the issues with Yabai losing windows and needing a restart..
Rectangle is another oss option: https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle
I bought Moom long before rectangle came out, both are pretty decent.
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#30Funny to see this at the top of HN after just having uninstalled Yabai. I used Yabai for about 6 weeks. I was so thrilled about having a proper tiling window manager for Mac. I invested a lot of time setting up skhd and fine-tuning my configuration for the most intuitive hotkeys. The problem ultimately, however, is that Yabai just doesn't work well enough. It'll regularly just lose track of windows altogether, which…
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.