CTctippett·Jun 7, 2024
Also this: https://github.com/szymonkaliski/hhtwm
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szymonkaliski / hhtwm
hhtwm
hackable tiling window manager for macOS and Hammerspoon
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hackable tiling window manager for macOS and Hammerspoon
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesI didn't do a whole lot of tiling with it, mostly just added keyboard shortcuts to open or bring to the front specific applications as (at the time) I was on a Mac without an external monitor. I found I could switch between windows quickly enough that I never needed multiple visible on the screen at the same time.
https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.application.html#launchO... was the primary method, though sometimes (such as teams) I had to get more creative.
That said, I believe https://github.com/szymonkaliski/hhtwm is quite popular, might be worth a shot if you want tiling.
In The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3Because of some personal preferences - I didn't really like BSP, and the idea of running two window managers - I use Hammerspoon[1] for a lot of other things - I wrote HHTWM[2] - tiling wm library for Hammerspoon.
HHTWM also persists state between reloads, something that chunkwm didn't do last time I checked.
[1] http://hammerspoon.org
[2] https://github.com/szymonkaliski/hhtwm
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