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What a great project. For those who are wanting something similar for macOS, the Amethyst project is pretty great https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst https://gith

by sohrob 4y ago

What a great project. For those who are wanting something similar for macOS, the Amethyst project is pretty great https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst (meant to be more like Xmonad actually but still a tiling wm).

zdragnar 4y ago
Has the performance improved over the past few years? Last I tried it (2017 or so?) It was so much slower than i3 that I couldn't stand it and went with hand-rolling something with hammerspoon. [Edit for context] I used Linux at home but was forced into a MacBook at work.
- _neil 4y ago
  Can’t say for certain, but I think the speed has improved over the past several years. Definitely more stable (for me anyways). I haven’t used i3 so I can’t compare the two.
- philsnow 4y ago
  Out of curiosity, is your hammerspoon substitute fit for showing off ? I'm a tiling window manager refugee and I love hammerspoon but every time I try to dive into making something like my old xmonad setup, I run into macos-specific issues about the concept of apps and windows and workspaces and such and them not mapping to my prejudiced mental model of how things should be.
  - zdragnar 4y ago
    I didn't do a whole lot of tiling with it, mostly just added keyboard shortcuts to open or bring to the front specific applications as (at the time) I was on a Mac without an external monitor. I found I could switch between windows quickly enough that I never needed multiple visible on the screen at the same time. https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.application.html#launchOrFocus https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.application.html#launchO... was the primary method, though sometimes (such as teams) I had to get more creative. That said, I believe https://github.com/szymonkaliski/hhtwm https://github.com/szymonkaliski/hhtwm is quite popular, might be worth a shot if you want tiling.
lvncelot 4y ago
And for us bspwm/sxhkd folk, theres yabai[1] and shkd[2] [1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai [2] https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd

by sohrob 4y ago

zdragnar 4y ago

Has the performance improved over the past few years? Last I tried it (2017 or so?) It was so much slower than i3 that I couldn't stand it and went with hand-rolling something with hammerspoon. [Edit for context] I used Linux at home but was forced into a MacBook at work.

_neil 4y ago
Can’t say for certain, but I think the speed has improved over the past several years. Definitely more stable (for me anyways). I haven’t used i3 so I can’t compare the two.
philsnow 4y ago
Out of curiosity, is your hammerspoon substitute fit for showing off ? I'm a tiling window manager refugee and I love hammerspoon but every time I try to dive into making something like my old xmonad setup, I run into macos-specific issues about the concept of apps and windows and workspaces and such and them not mapping to my prejudiced mental model of how things should be.
- zdragnar 4y ago
  I didn't do a whole lot of tiling with it, mostly just added keyboard shortcuts to open or bring to the front specific applications as (at the time) I was on a Mac without an external monitor. I found I could switch between windows quickly enough that I never needed multiple visible on the screen at the same time. https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.application.html#launchOrFocus https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.application.html#launchO... was the primary method, though sometimes (such as teams) I had to get more creative. That said, I believe https://github.com/szymonkaliski/hhtwm https://github.com/szymonkaliski/hhtwm is quite popular, might be worth a shot if you want tiling.

lvncelot 4y ago

And for us bspwm/sxhkd folk, theres yabai[1] and shkd[2] [1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai [2] https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd