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I used to use AwesomeWM [1] almost a decade ago. Nowadays I'm professionally stuck on macOS, and not a week goes by that I miss AwesomeWM... [2] This is a fun

I used to use AwesomeWM [1] almost a decade ago. Nowadays I'm professionally stuck on macOS, and not a week goes by that I miss AwesomeWM... [2] This is a fun reminder that the Linux Window Manager world continues to evolve. It looks like Hyprland is a cross between those tiling window managers and Enlightenment of yore (for the eye-candy) Does Hyprland implement a similar thing to AwesomeWM's killer feature of "window tagging"? In AwesomeWM, it meant you could "tag" various windows (for example: Terminal, Editor, Browser) then display an arbitrary set of Tags. This way, I could trivially go from "Editor and Terminal" to just "Editor" to "Editor & Browser". [1] https://awesomewm.org/ https://awesomewm.org/ [2] I am aware of the various macOS window manager tools like Moom, SizeUp, and the like, but none that I've tried come to the ankle of the better Linux tiling WMs.

ivanbalashov239 3y ago
i believe it should be possible to make tag like experience for macos with hammerspoon (lua based scripting engine for macos), you can move windows between desktops with it, so you could have one desktop for tiled windows and default for maximized, so whenever you want to switch to tiled group of windows u somehow trigger that with hammerspoon shortcut, and when you switch to a single window you switch to default desktop i have an implementation of window manipulation based on key/letter hints, you can use it as a reference https://github.com/ivanbalashov239/hammerspoon.config https://github.com/ivanbalashov239/hammerspoon.config
nerdix 3y ago
The animations are what drove me to Hyprland. I used Enlightenment at bit back in the day and used Compiz/Beryl with GNOME a lot in the mid-00s. I'm a sucker for animations on the desktop, I even liked the wobbly windows. I started using tiling window managers with i3 and then later bspwm. Using Hyprland for the first time gave me a feeling similar to what I felt using Compiz along with the productivity of a tiling window manager. Its like the best of both worlds.

ivanbalashov239 3y ago

i believe it should be possible to make tag like experience for macos with hammerspoon (lua based scripting engine for macos), you can move windows between desktops with it, so you could have one desktop for tiled windows and default for maximized, so whenever you want to switch to tiled group of windows u somehow trigger that with hammerspoon shortcut, and when you switch to a single window you switch to default desktop i have an implementation of window manipulation based on key/letter hints, you can use it as a reference https://github.com/ivanbalashov239/hammerspoon.config https://github.com/ivanbalashov239/hammerspoon.config

nerdix 3y ago

The animations are what drove me to Hyprland. I used Enlightenment at bit back in the day and used Compiz/Beryl with GNOME a lot in the mid-00s. I'm a sucker for animations on the desktop, I even liked the wobbly windows. I started using tiling window managers with i3 and then later bspwm. Using Hyprland for the first time gave me a feeling similar to what I felt using Compiz along with the productivity of a tiling window manager. Its like the best of both worlds.