ShiftIt
spin2win
ShiftIt | spin2win | |
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7 | 2 | |
5,532 | 25 | |
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0.0 | 10.0 | |
6 months ago | almost 3 years ago | |
Objective-C | TypeScript | |
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ShiftIt
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Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
ShiftIt still working basically fine for me after a decade:
https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt
- Stage manager lets you use top and bottom split screen
- App to move and resize windows in Linux?
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What are the tools that improve your workflow by a lot?
ShiftIt for window management on mac
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The Beast.
I use ShiftIt app before but switched to Rectangle for a few months now and love it!
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Window management for PPC Mac OS
I may have imagined this… the oldest I can find support for is SizeUp for 10.6 and ShiftIt for 10.7...
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Hackintosh / MacOS free tools
For those with multi-monitor, ShiftIt can come in handy!
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?
Rectangle - Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas
phoenix - A lightweight macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript
Karabiner-Elements - Karabiner-Elements is a powerful utility for keyboard customization on macOS Sierra (10.12) or later.
AeroSpace - AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS
selfcontrol - :skull: Mac app to block your own access to distracting websites etc for a predetermined period of time. It can not be undone by the app or by a restart – you must wait for the timer to run out.
Hyprland - Hyprland is a highly customizable dynamic tiling Wayland compositor that doesn't sacrifice on its looks.
yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
Amethyst - Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.
quicktile - Adds window-tiling hotkeys to any X11 desktop. (An analogue to WinSplit Revolution for people who don't want to use Compiz Grid)
cardboard
iina - The modern video player for macOS.
MiguruWM - A tiling window manager for Windows