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Re:Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS by betamike on Thursday November 30, 2023 @11:14AM (#38475279)
Just wanted to point out that disabling SIP is not required to use most of yabai's window management features. You do lose some features[0] but I've found the only ones I really care about is focusing spaces, and you can create keyboard shortcuts for that in System Settings.

[0]: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/wiki/Disabling-System-I...

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Re:Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS by freeqaz on Thursday November 30, 2023 @12:20PM (#38476104)
I want to echo this as well. I use a 2nd tool to help me add additional i3-like keyboard shortcuts as well (I have the ability to "stack" windows with Alt-S and rotate through them with Alt-J and Alt-K).

It's called skhd https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd

I forgot where the script for the stacking is. I can look that up separately, but I'm on mobile atm.

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Re:Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS by urxvtcd on Thursday November 30, 2023 @12:33PM (#38476290)
Please post it if possible. I couldn’t figure out the stacking API, and I miss that feature from i3.
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Re:Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS by freeqaz on Thursday November 30, 2023 @05:03PM (#38479833)
Here it is. There is no visualization of the stack, which apparently Stackline in the other comment supports, but I don't tend to need that. Just being able to move between the windows is good enough for me.

https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issues/203#issuecomment...

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Re:Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS by zavertnik on Thursday November 30, 2023 @12:38PM (#38476373)
They may be referring to stackline https://github.com/AdamWagner/stackline

I've used it in the past, it was very aesthetically pleasing but did not work consistently enough for me to use day to day.

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Re:Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS by poidos on Thursday November 30, 2023 @12:17PM (#38476073)
That’s good to know, thanks for clarifying that!
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