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Tiling people would create a group up on the top. When you want to bring it down, it's just a keyboard command away. After going back to mac (for work reasons)

Tiling people would create a group up on the top. When you want to bring it down, it's just a keyboard command away. After going back to mac (for work reasons), It's been a painful experience adjusting to the lack of tiling.

confounded 6y ago
> After going back to mac (for work reasons), It's been a painful experience adjusting to the lack of tiling. Same situation, I use ‘yabai’ on macos, which is similar enough to i3 for me.
- dashwav 6y ago
  Yabai (https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai) and skhd (https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd) together makes a very powerful combination that works extremely well. It's as close to i3 as you can get on MacOS, and outside of a few odd things with 3 monitors I haven't run into any issues. Yabai is actually the second iteration of tiling windows that koekeishiya has made and it's super well developed.
  - whoisburbansky 6y ago
    Seconding this; the only thing I miss from i3 is the fact that yabai almost by definition can't be better integrated with the OS, so there's a slight increase in latency that's barely perceptible but enough to make me notice how much zippier my Linux boxes + i3 are. Small price to pay for how much more comfortable they make me on macOS, though.
michaelsbradley 6y ago
Tiling isn't particularly difficult to implement on macOS with e.g. Phoenix: https://github.com/kasper/phoenix/ https://github.com/kasper/phoenix/ I hacked something together several+ years ago (see below) based on someone else's config, and I've maybe edited it twice since then, so it likely can be substantially improved. Also, I'm sure it's not as slick as a true tiling manager, but I've certainly gotten a lot of mileage out of it: https://gist.github.com/michaelsbradleyjr/a8ef81982420d0611878d5f521652c5a https://gist.github.com/michaelsbradleyjr/a8ef81982420d06118...
- hobofan 6y ago
  No need to implement anything at all, as Amethyst[0] already provides a pretty good tiling WM. It's so easy to setup that even some of my not-so-techy friends started using it. [0]: https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
  - miker64 6y ago
    Amethyst is pretty nice, though I find I have to restart it once a day at least because it loses an app or two over time.
- stjohnswarts 6y ago
  The Tiles app works fine for me. Usually i have floating windows but sometimes I need tiling and I use Tiles for that.

confounded 6y ago

> After going back to mac (for work reasons), It's been a painful experience adjusting to the lack of tiling. Same situation, I use ‘yabai’ on macos, which is similar enough to i3 for me.

dashwav 6y ago
Yabai (https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai) and skhd (https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd) together makes a very powerful combination that works extremely well. It's as close to i3 as you can get on MacOS, and outside of a few odd things with 3 monitors I haven't run into any issues. Yabai is actually the second iteration of tiling windows that koekeishiya has made and it's super well developed.
- whoisburbansky 6y ago
  Seconding this; the only thing I miss from i3 is the fact that yabai almost by definition can't be better integrated with the OS, so there's a slight increase in latency that's barely perceptible but enough to make me notice how much zippier my Linux boxes + i3 are. Small price to pay for how much more comfortable they make me on macOS, though.

michaelsbradley 6y ago

Tiling isn't particularly difficult to implement on macOS with e.g. Phoenix: https://github.com/kasper/phoenix/ https://github.com/kasper/phoenix/ I hacked something together several+ years ago (see below) based on someone else's config, and I've maybe edited it twice since then, so it likely can be substantially improved. Also, I'm sure it's not as slick as a true tiling manager, but I've certainly gotten a lot of mileage out of it: https://gist.github.com/michaelsbradleyjr/a8ef81982420d0611878d5f521652c5a https://gist.github.com/michaelsbradleyjr/a8ef81982420d06118...

hobofan 6y ago
No need to implement anything at all, as Amethyst[0] already provides a pretty good tiling WM. It's so easy to setup that even some of my not-so-techy friends started using it. [0]: https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
- miker64 6y ago
  Amethyst is pretty nice, though I find I have to restart it once a day at least because it loses an app or two over time.
stjohnswarts 6y ago
The Tiles app works fine for me. Usually i have floating windows but sometimes I need tiling and I use Tiles for that.