phoenix

Phoenix [0] is another option in this space if you want to write JS/TS instead of Lua. I just commented about it here [1]. [0] https://github.com/kasper/phoenix [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38487077

My personal favorite app/software in this space is Phoenix [0]. It's more of a "build your own tiling/window manager" but I find it enjoyable to work with. I have my config written in TS and then I just run `tsc` to compile to JS which it uses. I have one hotkey I hit to put all my windows where I want them (aware of which setup I'm plugged into, home, laptop-only, remote office) on various monitors and then I have hotkeys to arrange/resize/move my windows around. The best part is if there is something I want to do I can just add it (add a modifier or a new hotkey combo). After having that freedom it's hard to consider using anything off-the-shelf even though many of them are quite good from what I can tell. [0] https://github.com/kasper/phoenix

Have you heard of Phoenix [1]? It seems relatively unknown but I actually found it to work better than Yabai in some ways. The gist is that it basically simulates a tiling wm and virtual desktops by internally tracking state. This also means it doesn't suffer from window animation delays when you switch "desktops" (since "desktops" are just hiding/unhiding windows). It's also highly hackable/extensible being written in JS. Spin2Win [2] is a config that's worked well for me. [1] https://github.com/kasper/phoenix [2] https://github.com/nik3daz/spin2win That said, it seems there are no perfect solutions. At work where I can't really be futzing around with window management config I basically just use Raycast + hotkeys and try to keep everything inside maximized application windows. This means using Arc browser (tabbed), iTerm (tabbed), VS Co

When I was annoyed with this I went ahead and downloaded phoenix (https://github.com/kasper/phoenix) wrote a little javascript and now I have a bunch of globally accessable hotkeys so I can lay my windows out in a number of combinations. Right now I have setups for over/under left/right, two by two grid, and three by three grid. I've got some plans to spend some time enabling more arbitrary grids and subgrids but I haven't gotten to it yet.

https://github.com/kasper/phoenix This let’s you have complete control over tiling.

I have used phoenix for some functionality in the general area https://github.com/kasper/phoenix

displayplacer is an awesome tool that I've mentioned on HN a number of times before. I have my displayplacer command setup to be run by Alfred so that when I connect my monitors I can just invoke Alfred, type "disp", and hit enter. The next step would be to have it auto-run when monitors were attached but this works well enough for me. displayplacer for monitor alignment, phoenix for window management, and my own hacked together mousejump for jumping over the monitor gaps make for an awesome experience. [0] https://github.com/kasper/phoenix [1] https://github.com/joshstrange/mousejump

Actually, if you're interested at all, I just, after literally months of reading about this, found a pretty sick solution. Have you ever heard of Phoenix? https://github.com/kasper/phoenix/. Despite googling around for this exact topic, with 3.8k stars I had never heard of it. Apparently someone has created slim, JS scriptable interface that is basically tailor made toward creating your own tiling WM. I just installed it and loaded one of the examples: https://github.com/nik3daz/spin2win. And what it does is basically ignores the built-in spaces and creates truly virtual desktops by just hiding and resizing windows. And it works pretty well. The response time between switching "desktops" is basically instant.