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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 Bagged2347 »

rxhanson wrote: post #49
CSSer wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Are you the Rectangle dev? I appreciate your work! How did you get into developing tools for macOS? Were you filling your own needs?

Re: Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by shortrounddev2 »

jknz wrote: post #68

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.

When I looked this up on an apple support forum, the replies were all basically: "Why would you want to disable this feature? Apple designers know better than you, go back to Windows"

Re: Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by shortrounddev2 »

Everyone in my company uses a company provided macbook, but I use my own Windows Desktop. When presenting stuff to my boss, I'll use windows shortcuts for tiling windows (Win + Arrow keys) and my boss said that's the one feature he thinks is missing from macOS that Windows is really good at

Re: Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by urxvtcd »

freeqaz wrote: post #86
betamike wrote: post #57

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Just wanted to point out that disabling SIP is not required to use most of yabai's window management features. You do lose some features[0] but I've found the only ones I really care about is focusing spaces, and you can create keyboard shortcuts for that in System Settings. [0]: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/wiki/Disabling-System-I...

I want to echo this as well. I use a 2nd tool to help me add additional i3-like keyboard shortcuts as well (I have the ability to "stack" windows with Alt-S and rotate through them with Alt-J and Alt-K). It's called skhd https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd I forgot where the script for the stacking is. I can look that up separately, but I'm on mobile atm.

Please post it if possible. I couldn’t figure out the stacking API, and I miss that feature from i3.

Re: Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by zavertnik »

urxvtcd wrote: post #95
freeqaz wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want to echo this as well. I use a 2nd tool to help me add additional i3-like keyboard shortcuts as well (I have the ability to "stack" windows with Alt-S and rotate through them with Alt-J and Alt-K). It's called skhd https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd I forgot where the script for the stacking is. I can look that up separately, but I'm on mobile atm.

Please post it if possible. I couldn’t figure out the stacking API, and I miss that feature from i3.

They may be referring to stackline https://github.com/AdamWagner/stackline

I've used it in the past, it was very aesthetically pleasing but did not work consistently enough for me to use day to day.

Re: Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by ilikejam »

harlanlewis wrote: post #51
ilikejam wrote: post #22

All I want (for christmas) is an 'Always on top' opton for windows on macos. I'd pay real actual money, as I suspect would many others.

Piqued my interest so I just went looking, this relatively recent reddit thread lists a few relevant options: https://www.reddit.com/r/mac/comments/q1pgos/keep_a_window_o... I hope one works out!

BetterTouchTool works, but it's not pretty - rounded corners end up with blue backgrounds and windows shrink slightly when defocussed.

No joy with the rest.

Re: Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by jsf01 »

For anyone looking to dip their toes into Yabai and tiling windows, I recommend the following setup. Enable full tiling only on a couple workspaces. Desktop 1 can remain in floating layout, just as though you’d never installed Yabai in the first place. Then tile Desktop 2 and as many others as you want.

The one other tip I have is to have an easy hotkey for toggling full screen mode. Toggling an app into full screen mode doesn’t lose its tiled position or create a new desktop the way native Mac full screen mode does, which is especially helpful when working on a smaller monitor.

Re: Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS

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Post by presentation »

l2dy wrote: post #58
mushufasa wrote: post #48

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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…

The name Yabai can also be used in a positive sense to mean "great", and is particularly common among young people. Source: https://web-japan.org/trends/buzz/bz0510.html

As a relatively young Japanese speaker, can confirm, it can be either bad or good in context as slang. The comparison to English “wicked” makes sense - could be like “whoa, that’s really uncool/dangerous/awful” or it could mean “whoa, that’s amazing! Sick!” Probably library author is going for the latter!
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