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I'm a long time user of a similar tool called Divvy[1]. However both these tools are _not_ tiling window managers. They help us scale Windows manually by provid
by preek 11y ago
I'm a long time user of a similar tool called Divvy[1]. However both these tools are _not_ tiling window managers. They help us scale Windows manually by providing customizable shortcuts. A tiling window manager would take care of that automatically. Popular examples are i3[2] and XMonad[3].
As a user of both Linux and OSX, having no access to a real tiling WM is probably the biggest downside to me from an end users perspective.
1. https://mizage.com/divvy/ https://mizage.com/divvy/
2. https://i3wm.org/ https://i3wm.org/
3. http://xmonad.org/ http://xmonad.org/
- stcredzero 11y agoDivvy just works for me. Really, the two most common shortcuts I use are "take up the right half" and "take up the left half". That accounts for 80% of my usage of anything like a tiling window manager. In third place is an alternative for "maximize" which isn't the OS X maximize. (Has a use for certain legacy programs, and also as an alternative to OS X fullscreen.) The next two most common operations are "take up the top half" and "take up the bottom half." The devs were pretty responsive to my request, as well.
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- alxndr 11y agoI have the same use case; been using Spectacle for years now.
- malnourish 11y agoI use Divvy as well (on Windows). I wish there were a real tiling windows manager for Windows.
- iheartmemcache 11y agoKWM looks like its actually hooking on the window creation event, so it functions like I3/ratpoison/xmonad/dwm/awesome/etc. I don't have a OS X machine to test it out (you'll pry Arch from my cold dead fingers, thank you very much), but it looks like the genuine deal compared to Divvy &co.