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As a tiling WM user coming from Linux, ChunkWM and Amethyst are both incredible projects that allowed me to replicate my familiar and comfortable tiling setup o
by porkloin 8y ago
As a tiling WM user coming from Linux, ChunkWM and Amethyst are both incredible projects that allowed me to replicate my familiar and comfortable tiling setup once I had a work-issued laptop running macOS.
For those who haven't used ChunkWM, the closest corollary in Linux is BSPWM. Just like BSPWM, the window manager is a standalone daemon that exclusively handles tiling and window management, and relies on an external hotkey daemon to issue commands to the WM that resize, focus, etc.
Obviously this requires a lot of configuration - if you like the tiling WM idea but don't want to maintain a few hundred lines of config files, I'd highly recommend looking at Amethyst.
- alfalfasprout 8y agoOne issue I had was that it seems that chunkwm only seems to support binary splits out of the box. Eg; if you have three windows it doesn't seem to automatically equalize the three out of the box.
- porkloin 8y agoYeah, same here. As someone who used AwesomeWM for a while, the limitation of binary split for both bspwm and chunkwm always felt a little restrictive.
- city41 8y agoI used Amethyst a couple years ago and gave up due to bugs and it often getting in a bad state. Has it improved? I switched to Linux but quite literally i3wm is the only reason. I will give current Amethyst and chunkwm a try.
- porkloin 8y agoAmethyst has stabilized a ton in the last few years, I'd definitely considering giving it another shot if it's been a bit.