Re:The Curse of the Modern Office
by thescriptkiddie on Thursday November 24, 2016 @10:31AM
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But not on OSX! Yes, really. No, not even with 3rd party software.
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Here you go: https://github.com/koekeishiya/kwm
Re:The Curse of the Modern Office
by thescriptkiddie on Friday December 02, 2016 @08:41PM
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Unfortunately kwm cannot do real focus-follows-mouse, it can only raise windows to the top. That works okay if you're using tiling mode exclusively, but with floating windows it's unusable.
Re:The Curse of the Modern Office
by koenigdavidmj on Thursday November 24, 2016 @11:40AM
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Seems like there would be quite a few moments where it's hard to get to the menu bar without accidentally hitting another window.
i use amethyst, an xmonad-inspired wm with pretty good focus-follows-mouse.
i tried kwm, and couldn't get the keybindings to register, nor get FFM to work. xmonad is better than all of them for what it's worth.
Re:The Curse of the Modern Office
by thinkmassive on Thursday November 24, 2016 @05:01PM
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Coming from i3, I tried Amethyst for a while when I had to use a Mac at my previous job. It seems like the best solution within the constraints of OS X, but it always seemed like enough of a hack that I ended up battling both it and the real window manager, so I ended up disabling it after a few months. The focus-follows-mouse never came close to working as expected for me.
Fighting with window size, positioning, and focus is such a productivity killer. Now I'm glad to be back in a real tiling window manager.