forceFullDesktopBar VS owl

They nerfed multiple desktops, back in the OSX days you would see a preview of the desktops any time you opened mission control. I use forceFull to get the functionality back but it means I can't run iOS apps from the App Store which sucks.

They should transfer over to your main display (at least that's what happens for me).

This utility might help you see what's going on: https://github.com/Jaysce/Spaceman.

And while we're on Spaces, this utility forces mission control to show full thumbnails of all spaces by default: https://github.com/briankendall/forceFullDesktopBar

I found an excellent tweak from GitHub that lets you force the Mission Control desktop previews to show up without the need to move your cursor up there. It's easy to install, check it out: https://github.com/briankendall/forceFullDesktopBar

I guess that wouldn't be convenient because they'd have to press several buttons. Possibly also Airdrop is faster? It uses direct wi-fi transfer (and bluetooth at the same time, somehow). Seems there are open-source reverse-engineered implementations written in C and Python: OWL in C, OpenDrop in Python.

The only working airdrop compatible is opendrop which makes use of AWDL reverse engineer OWL

Nope, it depends on this project and they specifically mention that WSL doesn't work because they need direct access to Wi-Fi card.

Two clicks further: https://github.com/seemoo-lab/owl

"it is unlikely that a non-Apple device has hardware support for adhoc wireless connections between devices. This makes implementation of AirDrop directly on non-Apple devices practically impossible without additional hardware. Instead we’ll implement a proxy..."

I get what they mean here, but it has been done. It does require a Wi-Fi card with support for monitor mode and frame injection. OWL did it with an Atheros AR9280.

See OWL:

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/owl

And Open drop:

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/opendrop

There’s an open source implementation called OWL — https://github.com/seemoo-lab/owl — it’s experimental, requires certain features to be supported by the wireless driver on Linux and no support for Windows.