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Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Re: Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by Twisol »

mushufasa wrote: post #48
poidos wrote: post #28

I 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. [0]:…

I find rectangle actually preferable to tiling, which I've tried on my linux boxes. Rectangle has the benefits of keeping the application-defined sizes (e.g. the terminal when opened up is 80x20 instead of whatever space is available on the screen) and playing nicely with the system defaults (like command-tab, command-~ to cycle through applications and windows). I find if I ever end up using a public or someone else…

From what I understand, a more direct analogue to "danger" is "abunai". The word "yabai" almost seems to be usable as a generic intensifier, like many English speakers might use the s-word. (I'm extremely far from fluent, though, so take my observations with a pile of salt.)

Re: Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by gkfasdfasdf »

Is there any app that has the ability to 'lower' the focus of a window on mac? E.g. on Ubuntu I used to be able to 'lower' a window's focus by middle-clicking on the title bar, i.e. hide the window behind other open windows (without minimizing it). I really miss that feature on mac.

Re: Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by shortrounddev2 »

Nevin1901 wrote: post #6

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…

Do you not use a monitor at a desk?

Re: Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by datameta »

Yabai is an interesting japanese word with several distinct composite meanings. https://www.alexrockinjapanese.com/what-does-yabai-mean-in-j...

Here it is being used in one context at a beatbox battle between then World Beatbox champion Alexinho and the super innovative Soso. https://youtu.be/OjbYK4rujB0?si=SIn-uNHlh2KexsXc Yabai shout is at 3m23s

Re: Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by TheRealPomax »

datameta wrote: post #64

Yabai is an interesting japanese word with several distinct composite meanings. https://www.alexrockinjapanese.com/what-does-yabai-mean-in-j... Here it is being used in one context at a beatbox battle between then World Beatbox champion Alexinho and the super innovative Soso. https://youtu.be/OjbYK4rujB0?si=SIn-uNHlh2KexsXc Yabai shout is at 3m23s

It also seems wholly unrelated to anything about this app though, which is a shame, because as someone who knows Japanese, I'm not likely to install something called "yabai" in the same vein that I'm not going to install something called "whoa" or "ohshit". Hopefully that puts me in the minority.

Re: Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by tfsh »

xwowsersx wrote: post #2

Funny 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've used Yabai for about three years now, it generally only forgets windows or specifically their states if you use the swipe multi tasking features. However when this happens I have a keybind and Skhd command which quickly restarts the daemon [1] and fixes the windows.

It takes a little while to get used it, but Yabai is now an app I can't live without.

1: launchctl kickstart -k "gui/${UID}/homebrew.mxcl.yabai"

Re: Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by jknz »

Why wouldn't apple allow to remove all animations when switching desktops, without disabling SIP?

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/434555/can-you-com...

Native keyboard shortcuts are there for all to use to switch desktops, but the fading in/out animations that last around 1s completely prevent fast desktop switches as is so useful in i3/sway.

Re: Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by lsuresh »

As a long time XMonad user who had to switch to a mac at a new job, I first used chunkwm and then yabai. Yabai's requirement to disable SIP was a problem, and so I finally switched to Amethyst a year ago and have been quite happy with it. It gives me pretty much everything I missed from XMonad.
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