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macOS' window management is still so remarkably bad. In fact it might even be worse than ever for me now; I used to be able to install some kind of "keep window
by jim-jim-jim 8y ago
macOS' window management is still so remarkably bad. In fact it might even be worse than ever for me now; I used to be able to install some kind of "keep window afloat" hack, but the ability to do that disappeared with one of the version updates. I just try to keep everything in tmux these days and avoid the UI altogether.
- jonasmst 8y agoYou should try Slate (https://github.com/jigish/slate https://github.com/jigish/slate), it's great for window management once it's set up. I have hotkeys for positioning windows top-, bottom-, left-, and right halves, move windows to the right or left monitor and for displaying a grid that let you define the size and position of the current window by marking an area in the grid. It needs the Accessibility API, though, which may be an issue if your employer doesn't allow sudo access on their computers. Here's my dotfile: https://github.com/Jonasmst/dotfiles/blob/master/.slate https://github.com/Jonasmst/dotfiles/blob/master/.slate
- vermon 8y agoOr if you want something with zero set up, use Spectacle https://www.spectacleapp.com/ https://www.spectacleapp.com/
- wyclif 8y agoThanks, I hadn't heard of this and it's an interesting project. One problem, though, is that if you're like me and a heavy user of iTerm2/tmux, Spectacle seems a bit jittery while it's trying to match the terminal window to the desired window dimensions.
- mollusk 8y agoOr if you want to write your own WM from scratch, try https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon
- asselinpaul 8y agoOr if you want something close to i3, try https://koekeishiya.github.io/chunkwm/ https://koekeishiya.github.io/chunkwm/
- emit_time 8y agoThere are a handful of nice window management tools, and chunkwm is a filing window manager for macOS