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Amethyst is great!

• Steltek 5y ago
  Counterpoint: Amethyst is not great but it's also not Amethyst's fault. It does the best it can with MacOS's limited API support (really, using "accessibility" APIs, not windowing). Compared to i3 and other "standard" tiling WMs, you can't even really call it a tiling WM. - The shortcuts are hot garbage - Excessive windowing chrome everywhere takes up screen real estate - Tree hierarchy of windows/containers (e.g. horizontal box of vertical boxes of windows) is not possible/practical - Responsiveness to manual window manipulation is not great. I keep it installed because MacOS's default keyboard support for windowing is far worse, borderline unusable compared to Linux options. It sets the wrong expectations to talk about Amethyst (or MacOS in general) in the context of tiling WMs.
  • tra3 5y ago
    Been playing with Amethyst for a couple of hours; valid complaints, but it's true of others (magnet, sizeup, etc). I guess the only other option is yabai. I'm not clear what the story is with respect to SIP and Monterey.