Just installed and I have to say, works exactly as promised. This is a huge quality of life upgrade, thank you for sharing it Paul.
Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
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Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#22What do people use for Windows-like window management on macos? I tried a bunch of them and I'm not a fan of any of them. I actively dislike the notion of spaces.
Every [*] macOS user uses Rectangle.app — https://rectangleapp.com The ones who don't use it is because they don’t know it exists. Or they are still using the (deprecated) Spectacle.app — https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle [*] if you wonder why I say “every user” even though it’s obviously not true is because everyone loves hyperbole in this website.
I can prove everyone doesn't love hyberbole because I have found a counterexample, but I cannot prove everyone doesn't use Rectangle.app.
Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#23Having been ruined by Linux options like Hyperland and Niri, I’m digging my early foray into OmniWM - https://github.com/BarutSRB/OmniWM
Same boat and whoa this looks nice! Will give it a try thank you!
Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#24Having been ruined by Linux options like Hyperland and Niri, I’m digging my early foray into OmniWM - https://github.com/BarutSRB/OmniWM
It is very good even though it's in early development. Issues are getting fixed almost as fast as I can find them. I have to use macOS sometimes for work and OmniWM made it bearable.
Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#25What do people use for Windows-like window management on macos? I tried a bunch of them and I'm not a fan of any of them. I actively dislike the notion of spaces.
I use the r+cmd app for deterministic app switching.
Caps mapped to right command.
Karabiner to map dual-cmd+jkl; to mapped vertical slice so j is left quarter, j+k is left side, etc.
dual-cmd+i moves windows between screens and dual-cmd+u rotates current window through full, top half, bottom half.
The whole thing is deterministic and super fast and gives me more permutations than I'll ever need.
Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#26meh, i like the animation. I normally use it with the trackpad so the swiping back and forth makes it feel more natural if there's animation.
Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#27This looks interesting and I will give it a try. I agree that the space-switching animation is painful. I don't however think that this will solve spaces on MacOS, for the simple reason that opening new instances of apps is inconsistent and often doesn't behave how you'd expect it to once one more than one space is involved (in my experience, anecdotal). I've come to peace with the fact that I will never be able to s…
> for the simple reason that opening new instances of apps is inconsistent and often doesn't behave how you'd expect it to once one more than one space is involved
System Settings > Desktop & Dock "Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use". This is the critical part.
And then right click App on the Dock, Assign to this Dock.
With these two things, Spaces becomes predictable and repeatable.
Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#28Curious — what was the hardest part to get right here? Was it performance or handling edge cases?
Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#29Wonderful, that leaves 2 things on the top of my list for spaces: having to hover your mouse over the top left corner of a space and waiting until it shows the closing icon. And Safari deciding its better to switch to a space and open a window that was minimised there instead of just opening a new window in the space i'm currently in (even with the "switch to a space" setting turned off!) when 1 want to open a new tab.
Re: Native Instant Space Switching on macOS
#30Can’t say that the sliding animation has ever been the bottleneck to my productivity.