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In my workflow all I need is a good window manager. The one on MacOS is not good even with extra apps (Rectangle). There is too much degree of freedom in moving
by gerash 6y ago
In my workflow all I need is a good window manager. The one on MacOS is not good even with extra apps (Rectangle). There is too much degree of freedom in moving a window pixel by pixel. I want it to automatically lay out the windows.
The other problem is a lot of things open are Chrome tabs nested within a Chrome window. I wish there were no tabs and the OS window manager would automatically surface the right tabs and windows and pick the right layout (eg. Four windows tiled or two windows side by side, etc.) With an easy keyboard search across the content of everything open
- swiley 6y agoPersonally I can't stand automatically positioned windows, the algorithm can't know about what particular thing I'm doing well enough to position things effectively. What I wish the OSX window manager did was pointer style focus. Terminal emulates this for you but as soon as you have to use other apps (say multiple safari windows and a GUI editor for writing documentation) you loose this and need a second monitor.
- douglaswlance 6y agoTry Amethyst: https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst It's a great window tiling manager.
- gerash 6y agoI just tried it and so far it's really good. It's still rough around the edges though and feels like someone's side project. I feel existing OSes are simply missing out on creating a wonderful window manager. Something like this can get better defaults, animation, a tutorial, some ML smartness on making better initial choices and perhaps a dedicated hardware on the laptop (a la touch bar) just for window management.
- xtracto 6y agoI just need Apple to get out of the 80s and add an "always on top" option to their windows. Something so simple and useful and OSX just cant handle it.