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I see yabai mentioned, definitely check out Aerospace. Ive tried multiple WMs after years of i3 on Linux and this is the best one I found (for me) with quite a

by xz18r 6mo ago

I see yabai mentioned, definitely check out Aerospace. Ive tried multiple WMs after years of i3 on Linux and this is the best one I found (for me) with quite a margin. It just works (tm) https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace

tytho 6mo ago
I was a heavy macOS Spaces user. Upon a recommendation to use Aerospace from somewhere else here a few months ago, I switched and love it. I considered Yabai, but some features required disabling SIP (System Integrity Protection).
nathanwh 6mo ago
Another happy aerospace here! IMO it does a great job with barely any configuration required (the default config works great, I have barely tweaked it over years of use), that said I’m not exactly power user of tiling WMs, I have one app per workspace 90% of the time
- wett 6mo ago
  Same here. My only complaint is I wish there was a way to make apps floating by default and then you would specify which ones you want tiled. IME a lot of apps are easier to use in their default state. I really only use my web browser, text editor, and terminal in tiled mode.
  - lolive 6mo ago
    When exactly do you need floating windows? - a happy ion2/i3 user since forever -
    - hombre_fatal 6mo ago
      When you want to quickly use apps without navigating away from your tiled workspace. Especially transient dialogs, e.g. wifi/file picker. I would create rules in sway/i3 for those to keep them floating. I've written at length about this topic on HN in the last month, so I'd hate for it to seem like my lil hobby horse, but something I've come to appreciate about the conventional "stacking" window solution of Windows/macOS is that it has a good answer for apps you briefly use.
  - wlonkly 6mo ago
    You got me thinking, and this seems to work for me. I didn't test if the order of these blocks matters. [[on-window-detected]] if.app-id = "com.github.wez.wezterm" run = ["layout tiling"] [[on-window-detected]] if.app-name-regex-substring = '.' run = ["layout floating"]
tcoff91 6mo ago
Aerospace is incredible.
supersrdjan 6mo ago
It worked great when I switched from yabai some time ago but now it seems to be constantly losing windows and I have to keep resetting it :S
- airstrike 6mo ago
  Matches my experience. I've been resorting to `Window > Move & Resize` in the menubar to get those rogue windows back which is faster than restarting but still quite annoying...
TMschar 6mo ago
Another happy Aerospace user here!
- TMschar 6mo ago
  Also paired it with sketchybar!
imgyuri 6mo ago
for ghostty users check out https://ghostty.org/docs/help/macos-tiling-wms https://ghostty.org/docs/help/macos-tiling-wms
Wilder7977 6mo ago
Aerospace makes my Mac usable, but it is a looooong way from what i3 offers in my experience. i3 is way snappier, super stable, with good features out-of-the-box (including a status bar) - you forget it exists. Aerospace is slow, has to use that "windows in the corner" hack, it constantly resets whenever I resume the mac from sleep, needs additional tool for a status bar and more. Much of it is not a fault of Aerospace, it's just what you get using Apple products in a non-sactioned way.
alper 6mo ago
The main reason I use Aerospace (after a thorough testing of most macOS third party window managers) is for the space management and instant space switching.
charles_f 6mo ago
I love aerospace, but you can definitely feel that it's a hack on top of the macos window manager. If a window starts misbehaving (like, app is frozen or sometimes even just has a top dialog) then aerospace can't move it and you lose its immersive aspects. I also keep getting floating windows lost in the outer limits of the outside wotld, and have to use the native "move to center" in this situation. Oh and that issue with tabs in ghostty or item is annoying - but once again not something aerospace is really responsible for. With all that said, short of being able to use i3, this is a fantastic WM, couldn't imagine not having it. Use it in combination with karabiner to remap your caps lock key, and suddenly caps lock becomes how you move in macos.

by xz18r 6mo ago

tytho 6mo ago

I was a heavy macOS Spaces user. Upon a recommendation to use Aerospace from somewhere else here a few months ago, I switched and love it. I considered Yabai, but some features required disabling SIP (System Integrity Protection).

nathanwh 6mo ago

Another happy aerospace here! IMO it does a great job with barely any configuration required (the default config works great, I have barely tweaked it over years of use), that said I’m not exactly power user of tiling WMs, I have one app per workspace 90% of the time

wett 6mo ago
Same here. My only complaint is I wish there was a way to make apps floating by default and then you would specify which ones you want tiled. IME a lot of apps are easier to use in their default state. I really only use my web browser, text editor, and terminal in tiled mode.
- lolive 6mo ago
  When exactly do you need floating windows? - a happy ion2/i3 user since forever -
  - hombre_fatal 6mo ago
    When you want to quickly use apps without navigating away from your tiled workspace. Especially transient dialogs, e.g. wifi/file picker. I would create rules in sway/i3 for those to keep them floating. I've written at length about this topic on HN in the last month, so I'd hate for it to seem like my lil hobby horse, but something I've come to appreciate about the conventional "stacking" window solution of Windows/macOS is that it has a good answer for apps you briefly use.
- wlonkly 6mo ago
  You got me thinking, and this seems to work for me. I didn't test if the order of these blocks matters. [[on-window-detected]] if.app-id = "com.github.wez.wezterm" run = ["layout tiling"] [[on-window-detected]] if.app-name-regex-substring = '.' run = ["layout floating"]

tcoff91 6mo ago

Aerospace is incredible.

supersrdjan 6mo ago

It worked great when I switched from yabai some time ago but now it seems to be constantly losing windows and I have to keep resetting it :S

airstrike 6mo ago
Matches my experience. I've been resorting to `Window > Move & Resize` in the menubar to get those rogue windows back which is faster than restarting but still quite annoying...

TMschar 6mo ago

Another happy Aerospace user here!

TMschar 6mo ago
Also paired it with sketchybar!

imgyuri 6mo ago

for ghostty users check out https://ghostty.org/docs/help/macos-tiling-wms https://ghostty.org/docs/help/macos-tiling-wms

Wilder7977 6mo ago

Aerospace makes my Mac usable, but it is a looooong way from what i3 offers in my experience. i3 is way snappier, super stable, with good features out-of-the-box (including a status bar) - you forget it exists. Aerospace is slow, has to use that "windows in the corner" hack, it constantly resets whenever I resume the mac from sleep, needs additional tool for a status bar and more. Much of it is not a fault of Aerospace, it's just what you get using Apple products in a non-sactioned way.

alper 6mo ago

The main reason I use Aerospace (after a thorough testing of most macOS third party window managers) is for the space management and instant space switching.

charles_f 6mo ago

I love aerospace, but you can definitely feel that it's a hack on top of the macos window manager. If a window starts misbehaving (like, app is frozen or sometimes even just has a top dialog) then aerospace can't move it and you lose its immersive aspects. I also keep getting floating windows lost in the outer limits of the outside wotld, and have to use the native "move to center" in this situation. Oh and that issue with tabs in ghostty or item is annoying - but once again not something aerospace is really responsible for. With all that said, short of being able to use i3, this is a fantastic WM, couldn't imagine not having it. Use it in combination with karabiner to remap your caps lock key, and suddenly caps lock becomes how you move in macos.