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Re:i3 4.18 by butterthebuddha on Monday February 17, 2020 @02:19PM (#22349878)
If you're on Mac, I can't recommend the yabai [1]/skhd [2] combo enough!

I haven't used i3, so I don't know if yabai mirrors the i3 experience, but it's a very nice programmable keyboard-centric tiling wm for macOS.

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

[2] https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd/

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Re:i3 4.18 by stevewillows on Monday February 17, 2020 @05:20PM (#22351438)
Yabai gives the basic i3 experience. It's not as polished, but it's pretty great once you figure out a good config.

i3 has the benefit of being in an OS that doesn't use a super key for everything.

For Yabai, I mapped caps as HYPER -- which is good for most combinations.

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Re:i3 4.18 by Sir_Omnomnom on Monday February 17, 2020 @07:07PM (#22352205)
How did you setup your menu bar? I can't find something that can replicate the i3bar/polybar experience, and I don't like having the native mac menu bar as it is hard to see the desktop I currently am on.
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Re:i3 4.18 by butterthebuddha on Monday February 17, 2020 @08:11PM (#22352555)
I haven't set it up.
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Re:i3 4.18 by maximente on Monday February 17, 2020 @03:00PM (#22350218)
i'm interested in an xmonad equivalent for client work that mandates use of OS X.

these looks good, thanks for sharing - have you tried amethyst?

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