Re:Weekend hack: A little tiled window manager for OS X
by fyolnish on Saturday September 29, 2012 @10:19AM
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* I'm not planning to make it automatically manage all windows. That would never work correctly on os x, unless you have a huge display.
One thing I'm adding is to make it keep windows that have been tiled already, at their correct size (so if you move a window from the left to the right, the remaining windows on the left will also be resized correctly)
Re:Weekend hack: A little tiled window manager for OS X
by ef4 on Saturday September 29, 2012 @11:34AM
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> That would never work correctly on os x, unless you have a huge display.
That seems like a non sequitur. The whole point of a tiling window manager is that you can map windows in and out of the grid -- they don't all have to be on screen at once.
Re:Weekend hack: A little tiled window manager for OS X
by fyolnish on Sunday September 30, 2012 @09:57AM
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There's no way for me to know the min/max size of a window in order to verify it can be automatically inserted into the grid. A lot of mac apps set their minimum window sizes to an annoyingly large value, making tiling those windows impossible on my 11" macbook air.
Also keeping track of individual windows through the accessibility api is not a trivial task
Re:Weekend hack: A little tiled window manager for OS X
by tom_usher on Saturday September 29, 2012 @10:32AM
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Looks great; been looking for something like this.
I've really enjoyed using Slate[1] for OSX window management - it has great file based configuration and lots of options - often wish it had something a bit more straightforward like automatic tiling window layouts.
Re:Weekend hack: A little tiled window manager for OS X
by bradendouglass on Saturday September 29, 2012 @01:44PM
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Tyler came so close to Xmonad on OS X but for some reason there is a stall in development. The explicit nature of this doesn't quite make it a tiling window manager; however, it is definitely one of the best options I have found for the Mac platform so far. Kudos for the fork and I hope it grows!
Re:Weekend hack: A little tiled window manager for OS X
by dfc on Saturday September 29, 2012 @10:18AM
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"This is a fork that turns Spectacles into a tiled window manager, that means that if you move a window to the left/right and one already occupies that space, both are resized to fit."
Is this the new definition of a tiling window manager?
Re:Weekend hack: A little tiled window manager for OS X
by nuclear_eclipse on Saturday September 29, 2012 @12:06PM
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I assume that the limitations of OSX's actual window manager is the reason that a proper tiling WM like those on X11 are practically "impossible". This might be the next closest definition?
Re:Weekend hack: A little tiled window manager for OS X
by hboon on Saturday September 29, 2012 @02:20PM
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Sorry. I meant "I couldn't see".
When I move a second window to left-half of the screen with Cmd+opt+Left, it just resizes and moves there on top of the previous window, the 2 windows aren't tiled one at the top, one at the bottom of the left-half of the screen. I assumed that's what it should do.
Re:Weekend hack: A little tiled window manager for OS X
by s00pcan on Saturday September 29, 2012 @12:36PM
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I've been using xmonad on arch linux for five months now and it's been amazing. Rock solid stability and no wasted space on the screen, no wasted time arranging windows. Multi-monitor support is second to none. I can't go back.
Re:Weekend hack: A little tiled window manager for OS X
by tammer on Saturday September 29, 2012 @01:27PM
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My tools of choice for over two years now. I've had a very similar experience, xmonad is simply the most stable (read: consistent) window manger I've used.
At work I need to use a mac, however, and SizeUp has been good to me. Can't wait to try this one.
Re:Weekend hack: A little tiled window manager for OS X
by Osiris on Saturday September 29, 2012 @09:52PM
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I've been trying to find a good window management tool for OS X since I switched in January. This is the first free tool I've found.
I installed the binary but have a really weird issue. It takes 10-15 seconds from the time I press a key to the time that the action is taken. During this time period, the Spectacle icon on the menu bar has a spinning cursor.
Maybe I'll try the original Spectacle app to see if there's a difference and I'll report the issue.
Re:Weekend hack: A little tiled window manager for OS X
by fyolnish on Saturday September 29, 2012 @11:45PM
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Please do, it's happened once on this machine as well. And didn't go away until I restarted the computer. Seems like the accessibility system gets thrown in some sort of weird state.
Re:Weekend hack: A little tiled window manager for OS X
by lukeholder on Saturday September 29, 2012 @09:35AM
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Actually dont see much advantage of the many features of moom. (http://manytricks.com/moom/) Which I have been using now for quite a while and am very happy with.
Re:Weekend hack: A little tiled window manager for OS X
by hboon on Sunday September 30, 2012 @12:00AM
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I played around with Safari, Chrome, Terminal, MacVim and iTerm. It works for Safari, Chrome and Terminal, but moving MacVim and iTerm to the left doesn't tile them, they just occupy the left of the screen entirely.
MacVim and iTerm also are slightly wider when at the left and slightly narrower when at the right (their left + right width fills the entire screen).
https://github.com/pufuwozu/osxmonad
So I was really interested in trying out this fork. A couple of problems:
* Doesn't look like tiling is automatic, you still have to tell each window which side of the screen to tile on (by using Command+Option)
* I was using it for a minute before it crashed - which I didn't even notice
If those two little problems were fixed I think I could definitely use this until I get my version of Xmonad working properly.
* The crash, I will obviously have to fix :)
That seems like a non sequitur. The whole point of a tiling window manager is that you can map windows in and out of the grid -- they don't all have to be on screen at once.
Also keeping track of individual windows through the accessibility api is not a trivial task
[1] https://github.com/jigish/slate
Is this the new definition of a tiling window manager?
Not trying to be a nitpicky jerk, genuinely interested in answering your question if I can.
When I move a second window to left-half of the screen with Cmd+opt+Left, it just resizes and moves there on top of the previous window, the 2 windows aren't tiled one at the top, one at the bottom of the left-half of the screen. I assumed that's what it should do.
At work I need to use a mac, however, and SizeUp has been good to me. Can't wait to try this one.
I installed the binary but have a really weird issue. It takes 10-15 seconds from the time I press a key to the time that the action is taken. During this time period, the Spectacle icon on the menu bar has a spinning cursor.
Maybe I'll try the original Spectacle app to see if there's a difference and I'll report the issue.
edit: Ah, just saw the link to http://spectacleapp.com/
MacVim and iTerm also are slightly wider when at the left and slightly narrower when at the right (their left + right width fills the entire screen).
Anyone else experience this too?
I've felt so useless on OSX after having started using a dynamic tiling wm at work.
ShiftIt @1.5 (aqua) Managing windows size and position in OS X