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I moved from linux to mac for work stuff. Really miss the I3 functionality; yabai fills that gap mostly but not all the way.
by SJetKaran 6y ago
I moved from linux to mac for work stuff. Really miss the I3 functionality; yabai fills that gap mostly but not all the way.
- flurdy 6y agoThere is also Amethyst for macos https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
- ibraheemdev 6y agoAmethyst was inspired by XMonad, so it is probably the closest you are going to get to i3 on MacOS
- sa1 6y agoThere's also yabai
- Steltek 6y agoAmethyst is nice but has odd and unfortunate edge cases. The use of the Accessibility APIs limits what it can do. For example, keybinds stop working if the focus is on an empty screen with no windows. Occassionaly it "loses" a window and you can't cycle to it any more, even if you focus it manually. I also don't think it can throw windows to other workspaces but maybe that's changed? For very simple i3-like configurations (single workspace+monitor, always fullscreen or side-by-side), it's not bad. It's limited by poor support from Apple.
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- SxC97 6y agoDo you mind expanding a bit on that thought? What gaps aren’t filled with yabai?
- SJetKaran 6y agoI3's scratchpad would be one. And title bars when windows are stacked or tabbed is another nice touch.