phoenix

+1 for displayplacer. I use it for 4 external monitors (2 vertical) and it's a god-send. I also recommend people look into software to move their app windows into prefered locations. I use Phoenix [0] to resize/place my windows in their designated spots when I hit a hotkey. I tried stuff like Stay [1] and a few other similar tools that I forget the names of but they didn't work well or at least didn't work well on a multi-monitor setup. Phoenix required a little more up-front work but now it works perfectly for my needs. [0] https://github.com/kasper/phoenix [1] https://cordlessdog.com/stay/

I use a combo of phoenix [0] and displayplacer [1]. displayplacer is used for making sure my monitors are arranged correctly and I wrote a small script in phoenix (that I bind to a hotkey) that moves all my windows into the right spot, as well as keybinds to resize my windows for tiling purposes. It's not perfect but it works pretty well for me, I'll have to look into yabai some more, it seems interesting. [0] https://github.com/kasper/phoenix [1] https://github.com/jakehilborn/displayplacer

Tiling isn't particularly difficult to implement on macOS with e.g. Phoenix: https://github.com/kasper/phoenix/ I hacked something together several+ years ago (see below) based on someone else's config, and I've maybe edited it twice since then, so it likely can be substantially improved. Also, I'm sure it's not as slick as a true tiling manager, but I've certainly gotten a lot of mileage out of it: https://gist.github.com/michaelsbradleyjr/a8ef81982420d06118...

The API [1] is an interesting read, as well as this thread from two years ago [2]. I have used Spectacle [3] for years and recently switched to Rectangle [4]. These two are quite simple in comparison but I barely use all their features. I have seen people using HammerSpoon [5] as well for these type of things. Out of curiosity, what kind of things do people script in a window manager? [1] https://github.com/kasper/phoenix/blob/bfcb684/docs/API.md [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16787836 [3] https://www.spectacleapp.com/ [4] https://rectangleapp.com/ [5] https://www.hammerspoon.org/