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  • why doesn't YC fund products like this ?
    by vednig
  • Hard to monetize I guess, omarchy and hyprland are also public domain and just build out of passion, like this project.
    by paulsp
  • looks very interesting, might give it a try. I'm currently just using Raycast WM capacity together with InstantSpaceSwitcher. For me it's always how hard it is to memorise yet another keyboard shortcut (i have a lot of them); but i'll take a look
    by marcogarces
  • Yeah Im using raycast as well with this setup it pairs really well.

    The shortcuts I made are really close to omarchy's shortcuts, because that's what I got used to now.

    I guess the most important one is super + k. It gives you an overview about all shortcuts so you don't have to guess or dig through config files.

    by paulsp
  • How would this work on the dual monitors? Is there an option to have a secondary monitor have just one workspace while main monitor has multiple workspaces?
    by vardalab
  • Currently I use it on two monitors, both have independent 1-9 workspaces and you can move your windows across them with shortcuts or by dragging. On my big monitor I mostly just use the first workspace.

    When you plug the monitor out it collapses the workspaces and tries to fit them on empty ones on the Mac screen. It remembers the previous setup to restore them once you plug the monitor in again.

    by paulsp
  • Great work! I'm a fan of the hyprland setup on Omarchy and also daily on Mac! Do you have any screenshots showing some of the tiling, apps running and what not? Looks excellent!
    by addajones
  • Yes there are 4 screenshots in the readme, it's a bit long and most of them are in the bottom. There is a plain desktop one, one for the shortcuts help menu, one tiled one and one for the custom mission control. They are in the docs folder in the repo it you just wanna check out the screenshots.
    by paulsp
  • AeroSpace is really nice for i3 like tiling on macOS https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace
    by drewbailey
  • Yes this is based on AeroSpace, I used it with some custom configs and hidden commands for the tiling. This project is more about combining it with the custom menu bar, mission control, shortcuts and a few other things to get a well rounded experience.
    by paulsp
  • Offtopic but not really: does anyone know the minimal fix on how to remove the animation between changing "desktops" in Mac OS? I want it to be instant, no slide animation. Please and Thank you
    by orliesaurus
  • The solutions I've read about all do a simulated super-fast swipe
    by msephton
  • This works well- you can swipe using touchpad; or use ctrl + arrow keys- free and open-source

    https://space-rabbit.app/

    by rochansinha
  • i have this installed and its amazing! https://github.com/jurplel/InstantSpaceSwitcher
    by sampsn
  • This setup switches instant. But on default MacOS I think the only thing similar is Accessibility > Display > Reduce Motion. But I think it doesnt remove it just makes it shorter. I am not aware of any other way.
    by paulsp
  • I have used Amethyst, Aerospace and OmniWM (using). All of these work well most of the time, but something weird is bound to happen at least a few times each day given all the possible hacking around system APIs.
    by faraazb
  • Like what? I've been using Aerospace for a while and didn't experience any issue.
    by napo
  • What are some of the main or repeating issues you have been running into? Like the floating window goes to the background for example.
    by paulsp
  • Very nice! I'll play with it for a few days and see how I like it. However: 3. Korren isn't in the Brewfile — build it from the korren repo: ./packaging/macos/build-app.sh --install

    What korren repo? it doesn't even exist under your github user anymore...

    by quasarj
  • I just realized it was putting in the config file even if korren is not installed, thanks for the hint I fixed that with a guard. Its harmless but useless clutter.
    by paulsp
  • hahaha nice catch thats an easter egg or sneak peak. Its not required and the piece in the install script is just for me atm to integrate it with the theming so it stays consistent with the omacosy theme. It does nothing if korren is not installed. That readme section just shows how you can configure your default terminal and browser for the shortcuts. Korren is a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator with workspaces, tabs and splits with command blocks that I am still working on and plan to open source soon.
    by paulsp
  • It’s funny, I’m in a similar boat (omarchy at home, macOS at work) and recently spent a lot of time working out a system with SIP-enabled yabai for window management, kanata for the super key and other QMK-style tap-hold-chord mapping, and hammerspoon to fill in the space management commands for which yabai needs SIP disabled.

    If this had existed last week, I’d have saved a few hours, but it was a kinda fun few hours and now it’s all mine. Glad to know I’m not the only one on this particular quixotic quest.

    by dimbletimbers
  • Sounds like a cool project as well, what were your thoughts about disabling SIP? Would be curious to hear how omacosy compares to your setup. What you have similar what you did different.
    by paulsp
  • Okay very cool, will try. But please remove the claude-ese from the GitHub repo. It just erodes trust.
    by purpleflame1257
  • Hey thanks, I will try to get the readme more human. I am not a great writer and I wanted to have each piece explained well and in detail. Especially about the permissioning and different features. Looking forward to your experience hope you area gonna like it.
    by paulsp
  • Kind of sideways rant about tiling window managers on Marcos in general..

    I mostly use Linux + dwm as my daily driver, recently added a mac into the mix (mostly for testing personal cross-platform stuff, I use macs for work mostly), and not being a fan of the macos UI in general decided to set up a tiling window manager - googling showed me AeroSpace and Yabai as the most popular options.

    The experience with both of these has been quite terrible, and I don't think the problem is with these projects themselves but with macos and how it's UI/desktops work. Full screen windows seemingly break both completely. Doc hiding/showing is completely inconsistent - sometimes it just renders on top of all windows and doesn't hide other times it stays hidden even on mouse hover. Windows just disappear and can't be switched to. Fullscreen tiling seems completely unsupport(ed/able) - you must waste screen space on pointless title/status bars for some reason . After googling it turns out many of these issues exist in a fresh/bare macos and have been know unfixed issues for like 5+ years.

    I can't believe there are people claiming macos has a consistent, elegant and high quality UI... it is so terribly shitty and broken

    by aleqs
  • > rant about tiling window managers

    MacOS is so absolutely terrible for programming work. The only coder-favorable unit on Mac that I wish Linux had a similar alternative for is the OSA layer. Nothing else is justifiable there from a software engineering standpoint. Nothing.

    Apple keeps insisting on Jony Ive's influence and keeps making "an operating system for florists". Well, I'm a damn programmer - I need the utility, I don't care about stupid animations, widgets, jumping icons in the Dock, etc. If my enterprise overlords didn't push it so hard down my throat, I would be so much happier just using Linux.

    by iLemming
  • >you must waste screen space on pointless title/status bars for some reason

    There is macwmfx: https://github.com/aspauldingcode/macwmfx

    I use it on a couple specific apps to remove title bars. You can inject it with DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES.

    by skupig
  • Yeah its a bit painful on mac. You cant have floating windows constantly in front on mac like you have on hyprland. In my implementation I added a super + s shortcut to pull any floating windows I lost to the front again. But its definitly not the nicest solution.

    For fullscreen windows I also added a custom implementation with super + f that works in the workspaces setting. Just making videos fullscreen or clicking the green fullscreen button still exits the setup to macos fullscreen. The system is still kinda usable with mac fullscreen in parallel but its not a clean experience.

    by paulsp
  • Hyprland deserves the credit, not Omarchy. https://hypr.land/
    by CuriouslyC