yabai VS ibus

Compare yabai vs ibus and see what are their differences.

yabai

A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning (by koekeishiya)

ibus

Intelligent Input Bus for Linux/Unix (by ibus)
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yabai ibus
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21,317 831
- 1.1%
9.1 8.9
19 days ago 7 days ago
C C
MIT License GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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yabai

Posts with mentions or reviews of yabai. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-17.
  • My MacBook setup (the 2024 version)
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Feb 2024
    It exists! Check out [yabai](https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai), which is nicely paired with [skhd](https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd).
  • Ask HN: Best Hacks for a Ultrawide Monitor?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Feb 2024
    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.

  • Is there an app that does this Windows feature?
    1 project | /r/MacOS | 5 Dec 2023
    Want something free that's better than tiling on Windows? Yabai.
  • Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
    1 project | /r/hackernews | 2 Dec 2023
    35 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Nov 2023
    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...

  • Asahi Linux folks are doing us a solid with WPA3 fixes
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Nov 2023
    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.

  • macOS Containers v0.0.1
    24 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Sep 2023
    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.

  • Yabai: A binary space partitioning tiling window manager for macOS
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Aug 2023
  • Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS?
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Jun 2023
    This is disproven by the fact that Yabai [1] can instantly swap spaces with SIP disabled.

    [1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

  • [Serious] I don't get why people like Mac and I feel like I'm missing out
    4 projects | /r/webdev | 11 Jun 2023
    If you find the native window management lackluster (like I do), you can install a window manager like Amethyst, or yabai, veeer, or many others.

ibus

Posts with mentions or reviews of ibus. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-01.
  • From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Apr 2024
    1.5.29-rc2 was tagged on 9 Nov 2023 [1] and in did not contain "N_("CJK Unified Ideographs Extension I")," in src/ibusunicodegen.h [2].

    Commit 228f0a77b2047ade54e132bab69c0c03f0f41aae from 28 Feb 2023 introduced this change instead. It's the same person who tagged 1.5.29-rc2 and committed 228f0a77b2047ade54e132bab69c0c03f0f41aae which is typically an indication the maintainer tar'd their checked out git folder and accidentally included changes not get committed.

    [1] https://github.com/ibus/ibus/releases/tag/1.5.29-rc2

    [2] https://github.com/ibus/ibus/blob/0ad8e77bd36545974ad8acd0a5...

    [2] https://github.com/ibus/ibus/commit/228f0a77b2047ade54e132ba...

  • gtk+-2.24.33_2 in transaction breaks installed pkg `ibus-1.5.28_2
    1 project | /r/voidlinux | 30 Jun 2023
    On https://github.com/ibus/ibus we can see gtk+ are probably only need for ibus-setup. I would like help to be sure i not miss any step.
  • The reality of Wayland input methods in 2022 (2022)
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 May 2023
    I also know input methods work great in Ubuntu (Gnome Wayland) because Gnome supports ibus.

    But the article is specifically about incompatibility of input methods among different DEs: Gnome, KDE, wlroots-based environments such as Sway and Hyprland.

    After many years, ibus still doesn’t work with wlroots: https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues/2182

    The list of recommended IMEs on Sway are all WIP: https://github.com/swaywm/sway/wiki/Useful-add-ons-for-sway#...

    Most people use fcitx5 with Sway because fcitx5 and Sway both support input method unstable v2. But the article explains that v2 is still not universally supported among wayland DEs, and that’s why it’s problematic.

  • [Steam Gaming] - Player keeps moving in one direction even when direction key not pressed
    1 project | /r/voidlinux | 18 Apr 2023
    Have no idea what the daemon does practically, here is the GitHub page.
  • Fedora Workstation 38 Is Shaping Up To Be Another Fantastic Release
    2 projects | /r/Fedora | 15 Mar 2023
  • Fedora 38 Beta Released
    2 projects | /r/Fedora | 14 Mar 2023
    The F38 beta is currently affected by two (mostly gaming-related) issues that you should be aware of: - https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/2678 -> a lot of SDL-based games have their fullscreen mode broken. The issue is bisected. - https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues/2480 -> Keyboard input sometimes gets stuck. Issue has already been identified and we're waiting for an ibus release.
  • Missing keyboard events with X11 (inc. Wine) with ibus 1.5.28
    2 projects | /r/linux_gaming | 8 Mar 2023
  • Introducing the common input method
    1 project | /r/linux | 28 Jan 2023
    Also, to add to what u/Pizza-Driver said, it seems that ibus is not yet interoperable with the protocol used by Wayland display servers based on wlroots.
  • What does "Super+." do?
    1 project | /r/gnome | 6 Oct 2022
    I meant ctrl+., but it looks like ibus recently changed their emoji input shortcut back to super+., so the gtk emoji picker should be available via ctrl+. again without requiring changes: https://github.com/ibus/ibus/commit/1520c39d0d6036da725fcecd932883be3f3d3575
  • Disable Super+Period default behavior
    1 project | /r/gnome | 31 Aug 2022
    Looks like it was changed here: https://github.com/ibus/ibus/commit/1520c39d0d6036da725fcecd932883be3f3d3575

What are some alternatives?

When comparing yabai and ibus you can also consider the following projects:

Amethyst - Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.

fcitx - A Flexible Input Method Framework

Rectangle - Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas

fcitx5 - maybe a new fcitx.

vscode-vibrancy - Enable Acrylic/Glass effect for your VS Code.

rofimoji - Emoji, unicode and general character picker for rofi and rofi-likes

Karabiner-Elements - Karabiner-Elements is a powerful utility for keyboard customization on macOS Sierra (10.12) or later.

sway - i3-compatible Wayland compositor

alt-tab-macos - Windows alt-tab on macOS

void-packages - The Void source packages collection

MonitorControl - 🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.

waymonad - A wayland compositor based on ideas from and inspired by xmonad