Considering MBPs and am not sure (moving from Arch Linux on Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 7)

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yabai

There is a little confusion as most macOS users are not familiar with the difference between a window manager and a window tiling manager. There are a ton of great window manager (Magnet is still one of the common ones around which you brought up, but Mosaic is my favorite. Most window apps have all the same or similar features, but Mosaic includes some really advanced layout options that you can save and then trigger via hotkey to automatically resize, reposition, and arrange all your windows exactly how you want them (set to the individual pixel). But since you're coming from Linux, you're used to i3/awm/dwm which actually constantly monitor your open windows and tile all of them so they are all viewable at the same time. Really the only macOS options will be yabai. Definitely takes some setup, but probably nothing you can't handle. In conjunction with window managers, I also like TotalSpaces which allows you to customize macOS's typically unique method of creating multiple independent desktops (called Spaces) on the same display and allows you to groups specific apps and windows together to kind of organize your workspace. You can quickly switch between desktops when working on different projects and it keeps the clutter down if you like to run a lot of open apps and windows without closing them. I also use their Finder (macOS file browser) replacement TotalFinder as it adds some nice touches to how I search and view files on my system.

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Übersicht

Übersicht is basically the macOS version of Rainmeter which allows you to run desktop widgets built simply on HTML/CSS/JS to monitor system settings, display HUDs for your running services... Realistically you can create widgets to display absolutely anything you want. If you can do even some basic web design, you can get Übersicht running. There is a large community of premade widgets, but it's incredibly simple to write you own for your personal needs.

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TotalSpaces

There is a little confusion as most macOS users are not familiar with the difference between a window manager and a window tiling manager. There are a ton of great window manager (Magnet is still one of the common ones around which you brought up, but Mosaic is my favorite. Most window apps have all the same or similar features, but Mosaic includes some really advanced layout options that you can save and then trigger via hotkey to automatically resize, reposition, and arrange all your windows exactly how you want them (set to the individual pixel). But since you're coming from Linux, you're used to i3/awm/dwm which actually constantly monitor your open windows and tile all of them so they are all viewable at the same time. Really the only macOS options will be yabai. Definitely takes some setup, but probably nothing you can't handle. In conjunction with window managers, I also like TotalSpaces which allows you to customize macOS's typically unique method of creating multiple independent desktops (called Spaces) on the same display and allows you to groups specific apps and windows together to kind of organize your workspace. You can quickly switch between desktops when working on different projects and it keeps the clutter down if you like to run a lot of open apps and windows without closing them. I also use their Finder (macOS file browser) replacement TotalFinder as it adds some nice touches to how I search and view files on my system.

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TotalFinder

There is a little confusion as most macOS users are not familiar with the difference between a window manager and a window tiling manager. There are a ton of great window manager (Magnet is still one of the common ones around which you brought up, but Mosaic is my favorite. Most window apps have all the same or similar features, but Mosaic includes some really advanced layout options that you can save and then trigger via hotkey to automatically resize, reposition, and arrange all your windows exactly how you want them (set to the individual pixel). But since you're coming from Linux, you're used to i3/awm/dwm which actually constantly monitor your open windows and tile all of them so they are all viewable at the same time. Really the only macOS options will be yabai. Definitely takes some setup, but probably nothing you can't handle. In conjunction with window managers, I also like TotalSpaces which allows you to customize macOS's typically unique method of creating multiple independent desktops (called Spaces) on the same display and allows you to groups specific apps and windows together to kind of organize your workspace. You can quickly switch between desktops when working on different projects and it keeps the clutter down if you like to run a lot of open apps and windows without closing them. I also use their Finder (macOS file browser) replacement TotalFinder as it adds some nice touches to how I search and view files on my system.

#File Manager #FTP Client #File Explorer 11 social mentions

BetterTouchTool allows you to create macros, trigger or simulate an impressive amount of various actions via remapping them to custom keyboard shortcuts, your mouse buttons if you want, and basically any other input device. You can run built-in actions to simulate any number of native things or run JavaScript/AppleScript/bash commands to do literally anything you can design. It also has a window manager, controls to granularly tweak your mouse and trackpad settings, create new gestures, and it also had a remote method of triggering your actions via mobile device.

#Window Manager #Mac Tools #OSX Tools 185 social mentions