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Re:dwm by sbysb on Friday January 14, 2022 @05:12PM (#29941183)
This is something I have come to realize I unconsciously have gotten very dependent on - MacOS let's you swap virtual desktops for the monitor you are currently focused on without swapping any of the others. I never realized how intuitive this is until switching back to my XFCE linux installation and getting very frustrated with virtual desktops entirely. I might have to give dwm a try again on my linux machine if it supports this.
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Re:dwm by racingmars on Friday January 14, 2022 @05:20PM (#29941293)
Yes! Before I went all-in on desktop Linux, I was a Mac user, and MacOS definitely got virtual desktops exactly right in this regard.
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Re:dwm by justinsaccount on Friday January 14, 2022 @06:26PM (#29941907)
They definitely did not.

OS X has the same issue as a lot of other VMs. You can not simply have a single pool of workspaces and chose to view any N of them, where N is the number of monitors that you have. In OS X you can have workspaces on your left monitor, and workspaces on your right monitor, but you can't easily share the workspaces between the monitors without re-arranging them.

The only WM I have used that gets virtual desktops right for multi monitors is xmonad. Maybe dwm can work the same way, not sure.

In xmonad you can have 10 workspaces and 2 monitors, and pull up any workspace on any monitor. You can have hotkeys to cycle workspaces on either monitor independently and a key to swap the two monitors.

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Re:dwm by niij on Friday January 14, 2022 @08:53PM (#29942832)
You can drag a workspace from one monitor to another in native Mac OS. With yabai you can hotkey it to send to a different one.
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Re:dwm by hiptobecubic on Saturday January 15, 2022 @11:37AM (#29947740)
Not the same at all, really.
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Re:dwm by hiptobecubic on Friday January 14, 2022 @09:39PM (#29943050)
My first real job back in 2013 gave all of the devs macbooks to work on. I never used it specifically because osx couldn't do this.

Even now, they still don't get it right and treat each monitor as its own set of desktops.

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Re:dwm by runjake on Saturday January 15, 2022 @02:35AM (#29944494)
Go into System Preferences, Mission Control, and uncheck “Displays have separate spaces”.
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Re:dwm by hiptobecubic on Saturday January 15, 2022 @11:38AM (#29947759)
Oh if they fixed it that's great! I've got no reason to use it now, but maybe if I had another job like that one it would have been less frustrating.
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Re:dwm by runjake on Saturday January 15, 2022 @01:37PM (#29948962)
FWIW: Not trolling, but I believe they added this setting in 2013 with Mavericks.

Now, if macOS could get auto-tiling options like Linux has...

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Re:dwm by awsation on Saturday January 15, 2022 @09:29PM (#29952701)
Rectangle ? https://rectangleapp.com/
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Re:dwm by wyclif on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @08:29AM (#29978717)
Apple should really make a native tiling feature. I just don't understand why they can't seem to do that yet.
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Re:dwm by runjake on Saturday January 15, 2022 @11:08PM (#29953195)
I use Rectangle currently but it doesn’t auto-tile. Not that I can find anyway.
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