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Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by ianyh on Thursday December 18, 2014 @01:08PM (#8768696)
I'm the Amethyst developer. I'm happy to answer any questions people have. I'm hopping on a cross-country plane flight in about an hour, but I have a layover. I'll try get back to people as soon as I can.
Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by embwbam on Friday December 19, 2014 @12:11AM (#8771199)
I've had this idea for a while and I'm not sure if it's possible from your video. I have a code window, and ideally it would be next to everything: a documentation brower, a test browser, and a terminal. There isn't enough room for that.

It would be awesome if I could cycle through "spaces" that laid the same code window out next to multiple different things. Like maybe 1 is code | browser and 2 is terminal | code.

Possible?

Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by cma on Friday December 19, 2014 @03:36AM (#8771495)
You can do that in awesomewm with tags, just in case you seem a similar named concept in Amethyst
Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by exDM69 on Friday December 19, 2014 @04:27AM (#8771581)
Yes, this is definitely possible with tags in awesome.

"tags" are an extension of "workspaces". But rather than being a one-to-one-to-one relation (one window is in one workspace and you view one workspace at a time), tags are many-to-many-to-many. A window can be present in many tags, and you can view more than one tag at a time.

Most of the time, I use tags just like "normal" workspaces.

The GPs use case may be solved in two ways using tags, either by viewing two workspaces at the same time (the other one is code tag, and the other one is switched between docs, browser, tests) or by having the code editor present in several tags.

Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by nuclear_eclipse on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:16PM (#8769981)
Is there a way to set up custom layouts? Eg, I'd love to have a variant of tall/wide-tall that puts the main area on the right side of the display, rather than the left.
Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by ianyh on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:42PM (#8770088)
Not yet. I've toyed with different ways of doing this, but haven't really decided on one that I really like. Maybe I should just go the road of other window managers that expose a scripting interface. Write a javascript file or something that defines a function that takes a list of windows and some other parameters and returns frames for the windows, binds to commands for modifying layout state, etc.
Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by nuclear_eclipse on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:57PM (#8770165)
Would it be simpler to just define a couple "mirrored" variants of the main layouts?
Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by ianyh on Thursday December 18, 2014 @06:06PM (#8770206)
Yeah, there's already an issue to track that (https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst/issues/129), but in general it seems like people want more flexibility in defining how they want things to tile.
Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by Karunamon on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:22PM (#8770008)
+1 for this question. I've got a dual head box hooked up to my machine, and I'd do just about anything for a window management solution that would let me divide up this 3840x1080 "virtual" display into two equal displays. Mostly so dialogs stop appearing in the split between displays.
Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by kybernetyk on Friday December 19, 2014 @04:51AM (#8771625)
Is there any way to turn off window shadows in OS X? Having the main window draw shadows over neighboring windows is really ugly.
Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by tjlevine on Friday December 19, 2014 @07:46AM (#8771980)
Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by Semiapies on Thursday December 18, 2014 @02:57PM (#8769319)
Just wanted to say that I liked your donation section. You don't often see one where someone says Here are some things that you'd might rather donate to than my project.
Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by hcarvalhoalves on Thursday December 18, 2014 @01:48PM (#8768913)
Cool app, thank you. Trying it out.

Do you know if it's possible to have apps start in fullscreen (the real one, as in Yosemite) by default? I would like that as default and only tile on some spaces.

Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by ianyh on Thursday December 18, 2014 @02:26PM (#8769159)
That is an interesting idea. I'm not actually sure whether or not it's possible. Unfortunately I'm on a plane and my phone won't let me make github issues. I'll add one to look into when I land.
Re:Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X by NietTim on Friday December 19, 2014 @04:53AM (#8771628)
How was your flight?