What's hilarious to me about this is that I just spent a week writing a whole dock/draggable windowing system into a web platform that had resizable tiled windows, because of an overwhelming number of customer complaints that they couldn't put large windows on top of each other and everything was too small or required too much scrolling.
TylerWM - a tiling window manager for OSX
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Re: TylerWM - a tiling window manager for OSX
#32Although more manual, Moom achieves the same effect. Manual means more flexible in this case, for me anyway.
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#33This website should probably have more than just a video of the application; right now I'm on a wireless network that gets less than desirable speed, so watching the video would take a lot more time than I would care to spend. If I could scroll down and see some screenshots, and I see none, then I might have tried out this app.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
I bought it based on this thread and the video; I agree. I just decided to stop using it after 30 minutes, too many things don't really work. Now how do I get my money back from the app store?
In iTunes, when you're in the iTunes store, click on your email address in the top right corner to go into your account. Click the 'see all' for 'Purchase History' and then report a problem. If it's the last app you bought, click the button for it and then a link will display beside the price which you can click and fill out a form to ask for a refund.
Beware, however, that you can't do it often. I had a request for an expensive app refund denied because I had asked for (and been granted) a $0.99 app refund a few weeks earlier. So save it for when you need it.
Re: TylerWM - a tiling window manager for OSX
#35Has the site developer never heard of Youtube? Why should I have to install the cancer that is Quicktime on my Windows machine at work?
Re: TylerWM - a tiling window manager for OSX
#36This is a perfect example of the type of application where demoing before purchase is essential. I feel like I just lit $10 on fire. Additionally, I am more inclined to provide negative feedback via the MAS rather than sending the developer a helpful list of comments. Hopefully the developer reads this thread and can comment on the possibility of publishing a demo outside the app store. A 7 day trial is trivial to im…
Agreed. I sent the developer an email and promptly received a response:
..."I did not expect the publicity Tyler would receive after the revival - please allow for a few days for us to organize and react.
An update is under way."...
In conclusion, no need for refunds yet. I for one can't wait to see updates. It's almost there... a few more bug fixes and 1 or 2 small features and it'll be worth the €7.99 I spent on it.
Re: TylerWM - a tiling window manager for OSX
#37Tyler is not ready for prime time. I saw this video a few monthes back, got excited and bought it. It took me less than 24 hours to turn it off due to various issues. It does not work well with various OS windows, windows like the adium contact list and other 'non standard sized' windows. If you use it with spaces, it often loses your settings if you tell it not to use on space number X. I could go on with the variet…
Ahh, thank heavens for HN comments. I clicked the link, said "hooray! finally!" and was about to buy it in the App Store. Then I figured I'd read the comments first.
I guess I'll wait.
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#38There is also ShiftIt " rel="nofollow">https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt> , although I haven't tried it yet. The functionality of TylerWM seems quite simple. I wonder wether there is any Open Source clone of it.
While it's not quite the same as TylerWM, ShiftIt works great and I've been using it for years.
I am actually using my own fork of ShiftIt, where I added being the ability to resize windows to various percentages of the screen: https://github.com/nileshk/shiftit Though my fork is off of an older version of ShiftIt (the original from Google Code), and also pretty specific to my preferences, so I'd recommend checking out the official one first. I really need to update my fork with the latest changes from the official fork, because they added things like definable keyboard shortcuts.
TylerWM looks more like what I really want, as it appears to be more like the tiling window managers you see in Linux, where it dynamically rearranges all the windows on the screen.
Also, I've tried Divvy (not open source) and like it, and you can accomplish the "percentages" thing really easily with it, but ShiftIt has been more reliable for me, so I've stuck with it.
Edit: This was also mentioned in this thread and looks pretty compelling: https://github.com/jigish/slate
Re: TylerWM - a tiling window manager for OSX
#39Tyler is not ready for prime time. I saw this video a few monthes back, got excited and bought it. It took me less than 24 hours to turn it off due to various issues. It does not work well with various OS windows, windows like the adium contact list and other 'non standard sized' windows. If you use it with spaces, it often loses your settings if you tell it not to use on space number X. I could go on with the variet…
Ahh, thank heavens for HN comments. I clicked the link, said "hooray! finally!" and was about to buy it in the App Store. Then I figured I'd read the comments first. I guess I'll wait.
I bought it five minutes ago and it has now been turned off. I'll stick with Size-Up.
Damned discretionary spending.
Re: TylerWM - a tiling window manager for OSX
#40Divvy's a great alternative - http://mizage.com/divvy/. I've been using it for nearly a year now and very happy with it.