Rectangle
Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas (by rxhanson)
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| Rectangle | i3 | |
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| 257 | 84 | |
| 14,997 | 6,917 | |
| - | 1.2% | |
| 8.8 | 8.5 | |
| 1 day ago | about 8 hours ago | |
| Swift | C | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Rectangle
Posts with mentions or reviews of Rectangle.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-14.
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Please help my with my decision about switching to MacOS.
It doesn’t automatically snap windows but you can’t use this open source app: https://rectangleapp.com/
- dwm
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Dragging windows to tile them (similar to Windows)
This is the second time I recommend rectangle in less than 5 minutes. It is free and does exactly what it should had been default in the os
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Auto-sizing windowed applications in split-screen style?
Instead of paying for magnet, you could try rectangle for free. I still don't believe it is free.
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Anyway to quickly create half-screen windows and align them easily?
Here you go https://rectangleapp.com/
- Finally found the best media player
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Anyone Using Magnet App with Outlook?
I've been using Rectangle as a window-snapping tool for my 15", but it doesn't get along well with Outlook, which I need for my job. The problem is that Outlook for Mac won't resize to fit into the half-screen, quarter-screen, etc sizes that Rectangle snaps to (it snaps to the edge but stays wider than half-screen), so it always ends up overlapping with the apps that do play well with Rectangle.
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What are your guys favorite software to enhance your mac experience?
don't install vlc, instead get IINA. works just as good also get app cleaner. it'll save you a lot of hassle uninstalling software and there's Rectangle for window snapping, it's free and works great.
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Best open source Mac apps?
Rectangle is a nifty window manager for those who prefer their windows managed.
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What's the deal with Mac computers?
Also, windows key + direction arrows to snap windows on a Mac. Then I found rectangle
i3
Posts with mentions or reviews of i3.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-10.
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Can you build an "OS" just with programs you want to use?
maybe add i3 window manager, and good to go
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i3bar: How do I render the tray icons on the left side of the bar?
Answering my own post: https://github.com/i3/i3/issues/4611
- What's the deal with Mac computers?
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Change in behavior of "layout tabbed".
What you want is split, which will split the targeted container into a split container. i3 doesn't currently allow splitting into tabbed layouts, and you're not the only one to find this omission: https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/4208.
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What (lightweight) GUI text editor do you use?
I use i3. I installed geany and a dark theme for it, it looks quite nice. One question: After changing to the Dark theme, only the text editing area is changed. Where should I look at if I want to change the whole application UI to use dark theme like this? I guess it is something controlled by i3 rather than geany?
- Lightweight tiling WM for a noob - recommendation
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Tbh you’re probably multiple
Half the reason I use Linux is so I can have a real tiling window manager.
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Does anyone else here feel a need to customize or modify things to their liking, like more than other people do?
sway It's basically the Wayland version of i3
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Vim like tools
i3: a tiling window manager. It doesn't use vim keys by default but is completely keyboard driven
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Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers
i3* does that. You specify a set of workspaces and their screens. Personally I go a step further and set programs to specific workspaces as well.
This works really nice with a docked/undocked setup. When the additional monitors are disconnected, all workspaces move to the main(laptop) display.
eg, I have workspaces 1,2,5,9 on monitor 1 and screens 3,4,6,7,8,10 on monitor 2. When undocked all 10 workspaces move to the laptop screen.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Rectangle and i3 you can also consider the following projects:
sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor
Amethyst - Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.
awesome - awesome window manager
yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
wslg - Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios
polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar
tmux - tmux source code
exwm - Emacs X Window Manager
simple-bar - A yabai status bar widget for Übersicht
alt-tab-macos - Windows alt-tab on macOS
kwin-tiling - Tiling script for kwin
HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)