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This is something I have come to realize I unconsciously have gotten very dependent on - MacOS let's you swap virtual desktops for the monitor you are currently
by sbysb 5y ago
This is something I have come to realize I unconsciously have gotten very dependent on - MacOS let's you swap virtual desktops for the monitor you are currently focused on without swapping any of the others. I never realized how intuitive this is until switching back to my XFCE linux installation and getting very frustrated with virtual desktops entirely. I might have to give dwm a try again on my linux machine if it supports this.
- racingmars 5y agoYes! Before I went all-in on desktop Linux, I was a Mac user, and MacOS definitely got virtual desktops exactly right in this regard.
- justinsaccount 5y agoThey definitely did not. OS X has the same issue as a lot of other VMs. You can not simply have a single pool of workspaces and chose to view any N of them, where N is the number of monitors that you have. In OS X you can have workspaces on your left monitor, and workspaces on your right monitor, but you can't easily share the workspaces between the monitors without re-arranging them. The only WM I have used that gets virtual desktops right for multi monitors is xmonad. Maybe dwm can work the same way, not sure. In xmonad you can have 10 workspaces and 2 monitors, and pull up any workspace on any monitor. You can have hotkeys to cycle workspaces on either monitor independently and a key to swap the two monitors.
- niij 5y agoYou can drag a workspace from one monitor to another in native Mac OS. With yabai you can hotkey it to send to a different one.
- hiptobecubic 5y agoNot the same at all, really.
- hiptobecubic 5y agoMy first real job back in 2013 gave all of the devs macbooks to work on. I never used it specifically because osx couldn't do this. Even now, they still don't get it right and treat each monitor as its own set of desktops.
- runjake 5y agoGo into System Preferences, Mission Control, and uncheck “Displays have separate spaces”.
- hiptobecubic 5y agoOh if they fixed it that's great! I've got no reason to use it now, but maybe if I had another job like that one it would have been less frustrating.
- runjake 5y agoFWIW: Not trolling, but I believe they added this setting in 2013 with Mavericks. Now, if macOS could get auto-tiling options like Linux has...