PaperWM.spoon
spin2win
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PaperWM.spoon
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Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
I use the PaperWM spoon, a port of the Gnome thing.
It does not make sense to me to use a "normal" tilling vm that automatically messes up with window side without asking me, I just need the windows to be automatically put side by side.
[1] https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon
- Ask HN: Scrolling Window Manager for macOS?
- Anyone know of a way to add dynamic window scaling to MacOS?
- PaperWM.spoon tiling scrollable window manager for MacOS using Hammerspoon
- PaperWM.spoon tiling scrollable window manager
spin2win
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Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
Have you heard of Phoenix [1]? It seems relatively unknown but I actually found it to work better than Yabai in some ways. The gist is that it basically simulates a tiling wm and virtual desktops by internally tracking state. It's also highly hackable/extensible being written in JS. Spin2Win [2] is a config that's worked well for me.
[1] https://github.com/kasper/phoenix
[2] https://github.com/nik3daz/spin2win
That said, it seems there are no perfect solutions. At work where I can't really be futzing around with window management config I basically just use Raycast + hotkeys and try to keep everything inside maximized application windows. This means using Arc browser (tabbed), iTerm (tabbed), VS Code (with native tabs), etc mapped to cmd+1, cmd+2, cmd+3...Not much "tiling" going on but at least everything is pretty keyboard friendly.
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Hyprland, a dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on looks
Actually, if you're interested at all, I just, after literally months of reading about this, found a pretty sick solution.
Have you ever heard of Phoenix? https://github.com/kasper/phoenix/. Despite googling around for this exact topic, with 3.8k stars I had never heard of it. Apparently someone has created slim, JS scriptable interface that is basically tailor made toward creating your own tiling WM. I just installed it and loaded one of the examples: https://github.com/nik3daz/spin2win. And what it does is basically ignores the built-in spaces and creates truly virtual desktops by just hiding and resizing windows. And it works pretty well. The response time between switching "desktops" is basically instant.
What are some alternatives?
Lunette - Zero-Config Spectacle Keybindings for Hammerspoon
phoenix - A lightweight macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript
stackline - Visualize yabai window stacks on macOS. Works with yabai & hammerspoon.
ShiftIt - Managing windows size and position in OSX
CommandPost - Workflow Enhancements for Creatives
AeroSpace - AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS
hammerspoon - Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
Rectangle - Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas
Amethyst - Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.
yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
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