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This seems to be solving a problem of information being hidden by overlapping windows - but that's also solved by tiling window managers, like Amethyst and osxm
by bazzargh 13y ago
This seems to be solving a problem of information being hidden by overlapping windows - but that's also solved by tiling window managers, like Amethyst and osxmonad.
https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
On the whole I think I prefer the Amethyst approach - the snappy overlays themselves obscure information beneath them.
- nullcode000 13y agoExactly, it prevents breaking context by switching windows back and forth to access a piece of information. Tiling is, of course, another way to solve the problem. I prefer snappy because i can extract the exact piece of information i'm interested in, for example a portion of an image or a paragraph of text, instead of the whole thing.
- girvo 13y agoSo I've always just used Divvy for this, but Amethyst looks super awesome! I might give it a try!
- nutate 13y agoIf it weren't for the extraneous window decoration you end up with. I'm good with using Moom to size and shape my windows on the fly on OSX. I've been relatively happy tiling on Linux though, but customizing keyboard shortcuts gets tedious quickly. The main problem with OSX has been knowing which window is foregrounded, especially with two monitors.