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Personally I've been so hooked to Raycast it's taken over my tiling manager needs too now.
I love Raycast for this too. For new and current Raycast users who haven't seen this capability, you have to enable the Window Management extension. https://www.raycast.com/extensions/window-management
In my personal experience, tiling window managers only work when you have a lot of screen real estate. I tried using yabai on a 13 inch m2 air, but I ended up going back to my normal workflow of just alt tabbing between windows. Most apps don’t let you see enough content when they are tiled (because of gui elements such as sidebar etc). I do love the “focus on hover” feature of yabai though. I wish macOS had that nat…
In my personal experience, tiling window managers only work when you have a lot of screen real estate. I tried using yabai on a 13 inch m2 air, but I ended up going back to my normal workflow of just alt tabbing between windows. Most apps don’t let you see enough content when they are tiled (because of gui elements such as sidebar etc). I do love the “focus on hover” feature of yabai though. I wish macOS had that nat…
it was perfect for using a single monitor
kinda like a deterministic alt+tab, you set up the layout of "workspaces" and they're always in the same place
you can also pin windows to always open in the same place, so you basically can have persistent layouts that you create while using them (not like powertools where you have to set up the layouts to use them later)
I keep getting annoyed at alt+tab because I accidentally clicked on another window and now the order is messed up
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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…
If you don't mind me asking, what are the warts? I'm always interested in improving the app.
The main thing missing for me is being able to use mouse buttons to move windows: I have a Kensington Expert Mouse and I use buttons 3 and 4 for some actions.
Actually, the built-in keyboard shortcuts for moving spaces with Mission Control have the same problem, so I have configured Hammerspoon to turn the mouse clicks into key presses. I suppose I could do the same thing with Rectangle, tho it's annoying to have to rely on multiple apps.
I have one hotkey I hit to put all my windows where I want them (aware of which setup I'm plugged into, home, laptop-only, remote office) on various monitors and then I have hotkeys to arrange/resize/move my windows around.
The best part is if there is something I want to do I can just add it (add a modifier or a new hotkey combo). After having that freedom it's hard to consider using anything off-the-shelf even though many of them are quite good from what I can tell.
In my personal experience, tiling window managers only work when you have a lot of screen real estate. I tried using yabai on a 13 inch m2 air, but I ended up going back to my normal workflow of just alt tabbing between windows. Most apps don’t let you see enough content when they are tiled (because of gui elements such as sidebar etc). I do love the “focus on hover” feature of yabai though. I wish macOS had that nat…
I really want https://material-shell.com/ for MacOS it was perfect for using a single monitor kinda like a deterministic alt+tab, you set up the layout of "workspaces" and they're always in the same place you can also pin windows to always open in the same place, so you basically can have persistent layouts that you create while using them (not like powertools where you have to set up the layouts to use them later) I…
It was _so_ much better than just a 1D list of workspaces. I could get to any of my main 5 spaces with 1-2 key presses max. I've completely ignored spaces since they took that away especially since I think it reorders them automatically or something like that? I have zero desire for "smart spaces" or anything like that. I want deterministic. Now I just run multiple monitors and I'm happy with that but I miss the 2D grid for spaces on just a laptop.
https://www.hammerspoon.org/ is amazing. Not quite the same as Yabai but I cant live without it!
I like to keep the right 10% or so visible so I can see (and manipulate) the first column of file icons on my desktop behind my otherwise maximized/tiled apps. I haven’t been able to find a window manager that can handle this customization.
Amethyst[0] has options for screen padding. [0]: https://ianyh.com/amethyst/
Are you a fan of hobos?
In my personal experience, tiling window managers only work when you have a lot of screen real estate. I tried using yabai on a 13 inch m2 air, but I ended up going back to my normal workflow of just alt tabbing between windows. Most apps don’t let you see enough content when they are tiled (because of gui elements such as sidebar etc). I do love the “focus on hover” feature of yabai though. I wish macOS had that nat…