fsv VS yabai

There's a modern clone of it now: https://fsv.sourceforge.net/

fsv is a file system visualizer for comprehensive exploration and analysis. Utilizes a 3D layout, with both MapV and TreeV views, to facilitate unique perspectives on file hierarchy. For viewing permissions, phein4242 says, "It doesnt get any better than FSN/FSV."

Modern-ish version you can run on Linux: https://github.com/mcuelenaere/fsv

For a modern take on it: https://fsv.sourceforge.net/

With the upgrades to WSL in Windows 11 you can run fsv[1] with minimal hassle and get the true UNIX experience[2].

1: http://fsv.sourceforge.net/

Fun fact: this was a real application for IRIX, and there is an open-source clone of it.

There is fsv

fsn was proprietary SGI software for Irix. But a free clone exists : http://fsv.sourceforge.net/

If your into the tiling window manager experience, I would highly recommend looking into yabai + skhd + Sketchybar

- https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

Here's my .yabairc https://github.com/kcrwfrd/dotfiles/blob/master/link/.yabair...

Looking through it I don't see a setting for instant space switching... I think maybe it's provided by default when you install the scripting addition? https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issues/1527

I have keybindings in my skhd for focusing spaces: https://github.com/kcrwfrd/dotfiles/blob/master/skhd/space

I usually just keep 10 spaces at all times rather than creating new ones on demand.

Historically I'd install refind/refit and install Debian in my work laptops, but haven't been brave enough to do that on the m1's yet. So I took have been living the Mac life for a while now.

I hadn't been using Spaces much, instead kind of juggling a stack of a couple active windows on one screen. Like the author though I did decide to try out Yabai, and it's been an pretty decent tiling system for me. Every now and then it feels like an obvious should work split won't work, or like today Zoom just refuses to be tiled, but in general it's been a huge upgrade & really improved usability. It also sucked me into using multiple spaces, since there's some configs I knew I'd want to keep.

One thing worth mentioning is how wild it is to get Yabai actually fully running. It runs pretty well as a regular service, but to really be fully featured one have to disable System Integrity Protection, letting it hook itself into the Dock ia some backdoor messing around evidently. https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/wiki/Disabling-System-I...

It keeps feeling like the consumer world is more and more locked down, and this was one of those scary signs for me. The OS refusing to afford control, reserving it for itself seems like a trend, with no available permissioning paths even possible. Having to run a naked insecure system to get a couple management and keyboard shortcuts is wild. This feels like a bleak direction for general purpose computing.

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.