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Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by bnycum on Thursday December 18, 2014 @12:37PM (#8768516)
Minus Mjolnir, I've tried the rest and still prefer Slate[1] but it hasn't been updated since Feb 2013. Actually I had never heard of Mjolnir before now. I like Slate's ability to define a config file that is just a little more powerful than the competition, plus it's easy to sync across machines. I haven't updated to Yosemite, but Slate works wonderfully on Mavericks.

[1]: https://github.com/jigish/slate

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Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by ianyh on Thursday December 18, 2014 @01:15PM (#8768747)
I would 100% recommend Mjolnir as an actively-developed Slate alternative. sdegutis has a solid history of writing great window management stuff.
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Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by AndrewHampton on Thursday December 18, 2014 @02:36PM (#8769216)
Mjolnir isn't actually under active development anymore. A few months ago sdegutis decided to write a closed source alternative which has not yet been released.

The mjolnir community does have an actively developed fork though called hammerspoon. http://www.hammerspoon.org/

I would recommend either of them, but hammerspoon has a smoother onboarding process.

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Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by victorhooi on Thursday December 18, 2014 @08:08PM (#8770661)
Hmm, do you have a source for that? (That Mjolnir isn't being developed).

I just checked https://github.com/sdegutis/mjolnir, and I don't see any mention of this, and the last commit was from November 15.

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Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by BijanCamp on Saturday December 27, 2014 @07:19PM (#8804547)
It is mentioned on this mailing list post: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mjolnir-io/sRimOiYqM...
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Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by cmsj on Thursday December 18, 2014 @03:57PM (#8769572)
Thanks :)

We'd love to get feedback about Hammerspoon, or suggestions for plugins we could add.

Feel free to drop by #hammerspoon on Freenode, or file issues at https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon

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Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by ianyh on Thursday December 18, 2014 @04:27PM (#8769715)
Fascinating. I hadn't realized Mjolnir wasn't under development anymore. I'm glad to see the community is keeping it going, though.
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Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by 0942v8653 on Thursday December 18, 2014 @01:09PM (#8768706)
Mjolnir might still be worth trying. I'm not sure how you got Slate to work with Mavericks, but Mjolnir is very similar, under active development, and has Lua instead of JS as its scripting language.
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Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by punjabisingh on Thursday December 18, 2014 @03:02PM (#8769349)
There are some minor issues, but Slate generally works under Mavericks and Yosemite. Check out: https://github.com/jigish/slate/issues/405
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Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by tjl on Thursday December 18, 2014 @03:00PM (#8769328)
Unfortunately, the lead developer has decided to work on a closed-source alternative to Mjolnir so a new fork has been made.
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Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by 0942v8653 on Thursday December 18, 2014 @06:33PM (#8770319)
It looks like he thought about merging them for at least a few minutes[0].

[0]: https://botbot.me/freenode/hammerspoon/2014-11-25/?msg=26223...

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Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by cmsj on Thursday December 18, 2014 @03:56PM (#8769566)
said fork is Hammerspoon - http://www.hammerspoon.org/
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