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Re: Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces replacement

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wojciech-kulik wrote: post #22
whatever1 wrote: post #21

This is awesome. But Apple needs to get their act together. Window management, specially in multi monitor/ space setups is unbelievably bad. What is the purpose of the dock? It does not tell you what apps have windows visible, preview these windows or inform you where these windows are. Absolute waste of screen real estate. And to add to the injury they seized another 10% of the horizontal space for the even more use…

Totally agree. I even created a feature request to allow disabling animation when switching between spaces. But I don't have any faith in them. I enabled auto-hiding of the Dock. When I use FlashSpace I don't need to see the dock anymore because I know what is where. I also integrated the number of messages on my Sketchybar, so that I know if there is a new SMS or Slack message without Dock.

Not for speed (that was only allowed in past versions of macos) but even now, you can go Accessibilty -> Reduce motion blur and it at least won't do the horrible slide animation, just fade in and out. The other one made me nauseous if I was doing it so often

Re: Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces replacement

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Post by fiddlerwoaroof »

doubled112 wrote: post #35
cosmic_cheese wrote: post #28

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My guess is that among Linux users, multimonitor is unusual. Even most Linux laptop users seem to prefer single monitor clamshell mode vs. keeping the laptop open as a secondary screen. There’s a fair number of Macbook users who do clamshell too but secondary-laptop-screen setups are much much more common in the Mac crowd.

At some point I realized I’d rather one large 4K screen to any multi monitor setup I ever had. I’m not sure if it’s a coping mechanism for using Linux desktops or not, but it does avoid a few issues. It also makes window management simpler in the sense I can just sprawl them out and still see everything. Kind of like moving your project from a small desk to a big kitchen table. I tend to have two workspaces. One for…

I use a single large screen (55”) but I keep my MacBook open so I can send things like my music player there where I can glance at them.

Re: Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces replacement

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Post by bobbylarrybobby »

whatever1 wrote: post #68
newdee wrote: post #64

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> Every single running UI app needs a window. I’m sorry, but this is false. The default/conventional behaviour is for apps to keep running even if all their windows are closed. There’s actually a toggle for this behaviour on the app delegate.[0] You may be thinking about LSUIElement, which is loosely related, but doesn’t mandate that windowless apps must quit. [1] 0: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/n…

Apologies, I was not clear. Obviously in MacOS an app can be open without a window. My question is why? What is the point of having for example Word or Safari running without a window? If they want to run a background task that requires some user interaction (eg outlook checking email and calendar), the menubar is the perfect place for it. In the past the argument was that people want their apps warm started so that…

One reason is to be able to close the last window of an app without quitting it. Always bugged me how on windows, if I closed, say, the only word doc I had open, I had to relaunch word again (with all the loading time that that entailed) just to open a new doc. On a Mac you can close windows without worrying that you're also going to quit the app (except for apps that only support one window, although I do think it’s silly that every app doesn't just support multiple windows).

Re: Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces replacement

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whatever1 wrote: post #21

This is awesome. But Apple needs to get their act together. Window management, specially in multi monitor/ space setups is unbelievably bad. What is the purpose of the dock? It does not tell you what apps have windows visible, preview these windows or inform you where these windows are. Absolute waste of screen real estate. And to add to the injury they seized another 10% of the horizontal space for the even more use…

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Re: Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces replacement

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toddmorey wrote: post #6

I’ve tried a lot of tiling window managers & Spaces replacements and it’s hard to take over that central piece of the OS reliably. There’s always at least one of my critical apps that freaks out. What I want more than anything is just a terminal flag to turn off the dumb animations on the built-in Spaces.

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Re: Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces replacement

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adamredwoods wrote: post #48

I don't use VWS on OSX, because I'm faster without it. Flashspace looks like an improvement (faster), but I don't know if it's how I work. I may try it. The biggest complaint I have, is why doesn't alt-tab work smarter? Here's an example of using alt-tab and window management differently: https://justinnoel.dev/2020/12/22/macplus-software-demo-of-c...

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Re: Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces replacement

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donfotto wrote: post #55

This is much needed on mac os. But why? Back in the day, mac os was supposed to "just work", and linux was for weirdos who had too much time and customized everything. But now, it's the opposite. Vanilla flavor ubuntu just works out of the box. And mac os needs tons of third party customization. Same with external monitors, on mac one needs 3rd party software for properly scaling the UI on a 4k monitor. That's core O…

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Re: Show HN: FlashSpace – fast, open-source, macOS Spaces replacement

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Post by whatever1 »

bobbylarrybobby wrote: post #73
whatever1 wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apologies, I was not clear. Obviously in MacOS an app can be open without a window. My question is why? What is the point of having for example Word or Safari running without a window? If they want to run a background task that requires some user interaction (eg outlook checking email and calendar), the menubar is the perfect place for it. In the past the argument was that people want their apps warm started so that…

One reason is to be able to close the last window of an app without quitting it. Always bugged me how on windows, if I closed, say, the only word doc I had open, I had to relaunch word again (with all the loading time that that entailed) just to open a new doc. On a Mac you can close windows without worrying that you're also going to quit the app (except for apps that only support one window, although I do think it’s…

Why the app has to be scrubbed from memory immediately after you close the last window? We are not in the times with 512kb of RAM memory. This is not something that the user should have to worry about today.

This is the simplest caching scenario I can think of.

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