skhd

Minor curiosity: Why is "(S)imple (H)ot(K)ey (D)aemon" abbreviated as "SKHD" and not "SHKD"? Edit: Found this answer from the author of the non-zig version, though it doesn't actually explain much https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd/issues/151

the article mentions https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai, which i have been using for a few years to get me to 90% parity with i3. it has quirks and limitations, some of which can be fixed by disabling system integrity protection but it can definitely handle window tiling and navigating with keybindings when you use the companion daemon https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd

If your into the tiling window manager experience, I would highly recommend looking into yabai + skhd + Sketchybar - https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai - https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd - https://github.com/FelixKratz/SketchyBar Some honorable mentions: Hammerspoon - Unlock insane levels of configuration/automation (https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon) Raycast - Spotlight search replacement (https://www.raycast.com/) LuLu Firewall - An amazing FOSS firewall (https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu)

It exists! Check out [yabai](https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai), which is nicely paired with [skhd](https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd).

I have a 49 inch CRG9 and the best recommendation for window management is Yabai (https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai) along with skhd (https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd). Yabai is a greedy window management solution that tries to fit opened applications in given space and skhd let's you easily jump between those using keyboard shortcuts. This has massively improved my ultrawide experience. Only disclaimer is, configuring yabai has a slight learning curve.

The associated hotkey daemon used by yabai from the same author is equally as useful https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd

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.

Completely agree. It has its faults; but paired with skhd [1] it makes the mac usable for me. 1. https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd

One caveat of M1 is when you run into tools/apps that aren't built for Apple Silicon yet and end up in a rabbit hole of dealing with Rosetta. But otherwise the battery life and how quiet they are is incredible. For window management, check out Yabai[0] - it's an actual tiling window manager that can be customized in conjunction with skhd[1] for hotkeys. [0] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai [1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd

I use NixOS+GNOME+pop-shell for tiling windows on Linux, and I love it! I am quite frequently on MacOS, and I use Yabai[0] and skhd[1], managed with Nix-Darwin[2] for tiling windows and custom keyboard shortcuts. With how I make my Linux and MacOS builds look and feel identical it's pretty easy for me to forget when I'm on one vs the other. For anyone curious, here's my repository for deploying my configs[3]. It's awesome to have one source of truth for managing NixOS servers and workstations, MacOS workstations, and other Linux workstations with Nix installed. [0] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai [1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd [2] http://daiderd.com/nix-darwin/ [3] https://github.com/heywoodlh/nixos-configs

Yeah - i make do with yabai and skhd. I'm curious how people use the Mac without having to use a touchpad/mouse for everything without third party additions (that in the case of proper desktop management / multiple monitors needs to disable system integrity protection to work...). Ed: one minor (but somewhat understandable annoyance) is the lack of a free/reserved for users modifier key. Macos with the adoption of bsd uses both command, option and control (even though it uses command for core things like copy/paste). The windows/super key is a blessing on Linux pcs - as it generally can be used for just that - window management). I know some rebind caps lock as a super (ed2: I mean "hyper", I think) (aka ALL THE MODIFIERS) key on Mac - but that leaves control in the wrong place :/ Maybe there's no RSI in Palo Alto? https://github.com/koek

I was also using Karabiner to launch/switch apps instantly but I got tired of editing large configs to add/remap keys to apps. Eventually I wrote rcmd (https://lowtechguys.com/rcmd) to streamline this workflow of switching/launching an app by the first letter of its name. It will dynamically map Right Command + first letter of app name to already running apps, and you can map your own letters by just pressing Right Command + Right Option + letter to assign. I eventually replaced everything I was using Karabiner for with specialized apps like rcmd, HyperKey (https://hyperkey.app/) and skhd (https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd). I'm still missing the left/right Shift press once for parentheses, but I can live without it.

After some time using Karabiner (still use it), I moved most of the remappings to skhd[0]. I find karabiner a bit too complex for just remapping a few combinations. The main reason I keep karabiner is because it lets you have a different behavior on key-tap vs. key-hold, and to remap Caps Lock to a combination of keys, i.e: map Caps Lock to "Ctrl + Option + CMD" instead of just a 1:1 mapping. [0]: https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd

I ended up using AHK for komorebi[1] because I was still new to Windows when I started writing it and I didn't wanna have to write a tiling window manager AND a hotkey daemon. I even ended up generating a nice little AHK library to wrap around CLI commands that sent socket messages to the window manager to make it easier to write a configuration. Ultimately the syntax changes make it impossible to fully reproduce the same library for AHKv2, which is being installed by default on all mainstream package managers now. I ended up biting the bullet and making my own hotkey daemon[2] for use with komorebi based on skhd[3] and I haven't looked back since. This will be the "blessed" hotkey daemon recommended for use in the next release of komorebi. I'm still using AHK (v1) for the stuff that it's good at (and there is a lot of stuff that it's goo

And for us bspwm/sxhkd folk, theres yabai[1] and shkd[2] [1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai [2] https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd