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I think of tiling WM in terms of never having to leave my keyboard, or in other words, never having to make use of the mouse/touchpads. That itself leads to a v
by throwaway8879 7y ago
I think of tiling WM in terms of never having to leave my keyboard, or in other words, never having to make use of the mouse/touchpads. That itself leads to a vast boost in productivity. I haven't used macOS in a while, but when I did use divvy(?) To tile, it seemed cluncky.
Something like i3 is complemented with heavy use of the terminal, which has its own productivity boost over GUI applications. Throw in vim shortcuts in Firefox and you essentially have a system that is completely usable without leaving the keyboard.
- robenkleene 7y agoNot sure about Divvy, but I use Keyboard Maestro for window management and I don't find it to be clunky. Not sure what would be clunky about it? It's just a shortcut that moves a window? Regarding the keyboard-focused part, I mentioned that in the post, I don't think there's anything inherent about a tiling window manager that makes it more keyboard-centric than a stacking window manager? Unless I'm missing something? E.g., there are tons of ways to switch between apps and windows with the keyboard on macOS, from fuzzy finders[2][3], to directional ("select the window to the left")[4], to the built-in keys to cycle between apps and windows. [1]: https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/ https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/ [2]: https://obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html https://obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html [3]: https://manytricks.com/witch/ https://manytricks.com/witch/ [4]: https://github.com/mjolnirapp/mjolnir https://github.com/mjolnirapp/mjolnir