KE-complex_modifications VS yabai

This bad commit message keeps resurfacing on HN front page like beach litter. I would just go with "Remove non-breaking space characters" instead of writing a Russian novel. Also, if you're on macOS just use a Karabiner rule [0] that converts all non-breaking space characters to regular space characters to prevent yourself from accidentally typing it out.

[0] https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/#nonbreaking_space

you are welcome! Karabiner-Elements complex_modifications rules, for even more inspiration: https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/ And if you are not familiar with the Hyperkey: https://brettterpstra.com/2017/06/15/a-hyper-key-with-karabiner-elements-full-instructions/

On macOS I use Karabiner-Elements. I remapped right Command to Control and now have two Control and two Meta keys, and can use one hand for modifier keys and the other for letter. For the occasional Command I use the left one. I’ve also extended a bit Emacs complex modifications and I’m quite happy withe the setup. Caveat: I think that due to how I use modifier keys the double keys combinations don’t always work. But have never debugged it deeper.

it would also be helpful is anyone is aware of a modifier rule that exists on https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/

Rule

More resources on this - https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/

I was using my friend's Microsoft Surface Ergonomic Keyboard when I was staying at their house for a few days. I really liked the keyboard so I bought one for myself. It's a great keyboard, but the function key behavior is a bit annoying. Pressing the function key just toggles a little light on the key, and doesn't actually send any keypress event. macOS also thinks that this keyboard has a globe key for some reason. So it took me a long time to figure out how to start dictation and come up with this workaround that I posted on StackExchange.

I actually really enjoyed finding a solution for this problem, and I'm really impressed with Karabiner-Elements. I've been reading through the complex rule examples on their documentation site [1], and there's some really cool ideas.

I like the idea of setting up keyboard shortcuts to launch apps [2]. There's also a safeguard for command-q, so you always have to press it twice. (Google Chrome already does this, so you could set up a condition to ignore the rule if Google Chrome is the active application.)

[1] https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org

[2] https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/#apps_launch_any_l...

[3] https://ke-complex-modifications.pqrs.org/#command_q

It exists! Check out [yabai](https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai), which is nicely paired with [skhd](https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd).

I have a 49 inch CRG9 and the best recommendation for window management is Yabai (https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai) along with skhd (https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd). Yabai is a greedy window management solution that tries to fit opened applications in given space and skhd let's you easily jump between those using keyboard shortcuts. This has massively improved my ultrawide experience.

Only disclaimer is, configuring yabai has a slight learning curve.

Want something free that's better than tiling on Windows? Yabai.

Here it is. There is no visualization of the stack, which apparently Stackline in the other comment supports, but I don't tend to need that. Just being able to move between the windows is good enough for me.

https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issues/203#issuecomment...

I use Yabai on my Macs without SIP enabled. Here’s a list of the features that absolutely require SIP to be disabled: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issues/1863

But you don’t need to disable SIP just for tiling.

> there's still a ton of tinkering and tweaking you need to do to get Yabai really working correctly

This is pretty much true of basically every tiling window manager on Linux, too.

For me, using Nix-Darwin for MacOS and NixOS has drastically simplified my tiling window manager setup after initially doing the work to figure out my ideal config.

SIP is a feature that protects you from malicious actors with root (admin) access on your device. After they've encrypted your photos and drives and changed your passwords, it prevents them from making your machine unbootable by deleting or altering system binaries. As a side effect of this protection, you give up certain freedoms to customize your system.

https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

For instance requires SIP to be disabled.

This is disproven by the fact that Yabai [1] can instantly swap spaces with SIP disabled.

[1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

If you find the native window management lackluster (like I do), you can install a window manager like Amethyst, or yabai, veeer, or many others.