Re:Chunkwm – a tiling window manager for macOS
by amaccuish on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @06:40PM
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Is there any reason why there aren't many alternative shells/wms for Windows and MacOS as there are for Linux. Are there technical barriers, or is it more that the defaults are good enough?
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Re:Chunkwm – a tiling window manager for macOS
by prabir on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @11:25PM
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I use dwm-win32 works great. You can find the binaries from release tab.
https://github.com/prabirshrestha/dwm-win32
It is based of http://www.brain-dump.org/projects/dwm-win32/ with my patches.
Re:Chunkwm – a tiling window manager for macOS
by asveikau on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @07:34PM
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X is designed such that the WM is a user replaceable component with a stable, public interface to the rest of the system. Those other systems not so much.
Re:Chunkwm – a tiling window manager for macOS
by ianyh on Tuesday March 05, 2019 @09:57PM
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This is correct. I can only speak to macOS, but window management in this case is actually built on something entirely distinct from the actual system window manager. It utilizes a framework designed for implementing accessibility driven features, but it just happens to provide mechanisms for moving and tracking windows as a part of that.
Re:Chunkwm – a tiling window manager for macOS
by lostmsu on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @01:18PM
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I myself made one: https://losttech.software/stack.html . You can't completely replace the default one, though. Just override relevant hotkeys and pointer gestures.
I am unsure why do you think Linux has more options? How did you count them?
Re:Chunkwm – a tiling window manager for macOS
by lunchables on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @08:57AM
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My guess is that, in general, tiling is less useful in windows because fewer things are command line driven. I'm not saying none, just that in the linux world it is a lot more useful to a lot more people. So there is probably very little demand on the windows side.