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Any recommendations on software to tile the display? One reason I like 2 screens is because things like maximizing or full-screening still leaves me with the ot

Any recommendations on software to tile the display? One reason I like 2 screens is because things like maximizing or full-screening still leaves me with the other display for other windows. A single ultrawide would be way better, if I could count on having 2 virtual displays within.

theturtletalks 6y ago
https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle works great for me!
- mkskm 6y ago
  Alternatively, there's a Hammerspoon package that supports this. https://github.com/scottwhudson/Lunette https://github.com/scottwhudson/Lunette These bindings match Spectacle but you can map to Rectangle's instead.
ch4s3 6y ago
I'm a big fan of Spectacle App https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle. * Edit* Apparently Spectacle has been discontinued.
- trashcan 6y ago
  Rectangle I think is very similar and actively developed.
- Jonovono 6y ago
  yep, I moved from Spectacle to https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai and it's amazing.
- tedd4u 6y ago
  Still, it works perfectly fine on Big Sur, both Intel and M1 (in my experience).
Chernobog 6y ago
While not a tiling WM, check if Divvy could suit your needs. You can set up hotkeys to resize windows to parts of the screen. The screen is divided into a grid.
tomduncalf 6y ago
I use BetterTouchTool for this, it lets you set up snapping so dragging the window e.g. to one side will snap it to half the width, as well as setting up keyboard shortcuts. It can also do a million other shortcut type things which I barely scratch the surface of, cool app!
trashcan 6y ago
Try Divvy. I mapped its hot key to option space and then you can just move the currently focused app somewhere on its grid.
Jonovono 6y ago
https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai is awesome, way more extreme than the other stuff. But it's super configurable and I love how it auto fills windows (but you may not, which can be configured)
aduitsis 6y ago
I love https://manytricks.com/moom/ https://manytricks.com/moom/. Being available in the app store is a major plus from my point of view. And it has the usual tricks like keyboard shortcuts, etc.
- samatman 6y ago
  Here's a bit of deep Moom lore. For a 21:9 screen, the max grid size of 25 isn't good enough for me, I specifically wanted 36 so that I could make three 'panels' at 11-13-11 resolution. Found out with a bit of emailing back and forth that you can by pasting this into a terminal: defaults write com.manytricks.Moom "Grid: Maximum Dimension Size" -int 36 The grid display ends up being a bit small but I only tinkered with it for long enough to make 1,2,3 assign to the grids, 4 and 5 assign to the left-and-middle and right-and-middle, and q w e, a s d, z x c to top-middle-bottom of each of the three panels.
jac_no_k 6y ago
I've been using "Magnet" for tiling. It's in the Apple App store. My use case, 15" laptop display and a 32" 4k display. I find it sufficient enough screen real estate. I sometimes think about getting an additional display but can't quite justify it.
- hellweaver666 6y ago
  I use Magnet too... simple to use, reliable, can't fault it.
ArchOversight 6y ago
I heavily use Moom for this. It's $10 on the App Store IIRC. It's absolutely fantastic and I would buy it again in a heartbeat.
cassianoleal 6y ago
I've been using Amethyst [0]. It works, is simple enough to configure and get started and has most things I need. I found the default shortcuts to be the wrong way around for my cognition so I swapped them but otherwise it's been good. I mostly use the fullscreen (usually for the laptop's screen) and "3-column with main in the middle" layouts. [0] https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst

theturtletalks 6y ago

https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle works great for me!

mkskm 6y ago
Alternatively, there's a Hammerspoon package that supports this. https://github.com/scottwhudson/Lunette https://github.com/scottwhudson/Lunette These bindings match Spectacle but you can map to Rectangle's instead.

ch4s3 6y ago

I'm a big fan of Spectacle App https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle. * Edit* Apparently Spectacle has been discontinued.

trashcan 6y ago
Rectangle I think is very similar and actively developed.
Jonovono 6y ago
yep, I moved from Spectacle to https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai and it's amazing.
tedd4u 6y ago
Still, it works perfectly fine on Big Sur, both Intel and M1 (in my experience).

Chernobog 6y ago

While not a tiling WM, check if Divvy could suit your needs. You can set up hotkeys to resize windows to parts of the screen. The screen is divided into a grid.

tomduncalf 6y ago

I use BetterTouchTool for this, it lets you set up snapping so dragging the window e.g. to one side will snap it to half the width, as well as setting up keyboard shortcuts. It can also do a million other shortcut type things which I barely scratch the surface of, cool app!

trashcan 6y ago

Try Divvy. I mapped its hot key to option space and then you can just move the currently focused app somewhere on its grid.

Jonovono 6y ago

https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai is awesome, way more extreme than the other stuff. But it's super configurable and I love how it auto fills windows (but you may not, which can be configured)

aduitsis 6y ago

I love https://manytricks.com/moom/ https://manytricks.com/moom/. Being available in the app store is a major plus from my point of view. And it has the usual tricks like keyboard shortcuts, etc.

samatman 6y ago
Here's a bit of deep Moom lore. For a 21:9 screen, the max grid size of 25 isn't good enough for me, I specifically wanted 36 so that I could make three 'panels' at 11-13-11 resolution. Found out with a bit of emailing back and forth that you can by pasting this into a terminal: defaults write com.manytricks.Moom "Grid: Maximum Dimension Size" -int 36 The grid display ends up being a bit small but I only tinkered with it for long enough to make 1,2,3 assign to the grids, 4 and 5 assign to the left-and-middle and right-and-middle, and q w e, a s d, z x c to top-middle-bottom of each of the three panels.

jac_no_k 6y ago

I've been using "Magnet" for tiling. It's in the Apple App store. My use case, 15" laptop display and a 32" 4k display. I find it sufficient enough screen real estate. I sometimes think about getting an additional display but can't quite justify it.

hellweaver666 6y ago
I use Magnet too... simple to use, reliable, can't fault it.

ArchOversight 6y ago

I heavily use Moom for this. It's $10 on the App Store IIRC. It's absolutely fantastic and I would buy it again in a heartbeat.

cassianoleal 6y ago

I've been using Amethyst [0]. It works, is simple enough to configure and get started and has most things I need. I found the default shortcuts to be the wrong way around for my cognition so I swapped them but otherwise it's been good. I mostly use the fullscreen (usually for the laptop's screen) and "3-column with main in the middle" layouts. [0] https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst