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Re:From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love by xrisk on Sunday August 25, 2019 @07:57AM (#20792453)
Spectacle doesn't even come close to i3.

The biggest deal breaker is that you can't programmatically move a window to a new workspace (I think?); and that you can't disable the animations for switching workspaces (biggest problem).

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Re:From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love by least on Sunday August 25, 2019 @04:33PM (#20795388)
I would suggest checking out Yabai (https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai) which is functionally similar to bspwm and allows quick switching workspaces (no animation or fade) and throwing windows to different workspaces or monitors.
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Re:From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love by ukj on Sunday August 25, 2019 @08:06AM (#20792500)
Is it a case where perfect is the enemy of good enough? I've never felt the need to move anything programatically e.g automatically without it being triggered by my intention.

Spectacle has "next/previous display" shortcut.

To disable animations on workspace switching:

defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-swoosh-animation-off -bool YES && killall Dock

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Re:From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love by WildGreenLeave on Tuesday August 27, 2019 @07:18AM (#20808309)
That command doesn't work anymore since a few versions back of OSX. As far as I know there is no way to fully disable the animation and I hate it!
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Re:From Mac to Linux – the setup I've grown to love by xrisk on Sunday August 25, 2019 @08:24AM (#20792565)
That command didn't work; and "reduce motion" from Accessibility still produces an annoying fade animation.
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