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Discussion on: macOS window management without xmonad

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Ryan Palo

You've probably heard of Spectacle for Mac, but, for anybody who hasn't, that's what I use for my window/space splitting. I like it because I can split and tweak the sizes quickly. It's not a full tiling manager, but it does what I need :)

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Salun Marvin

My favorite too. The first thing I do when installing macOS is install Spectacle.

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Austin Turner

Spectacle is a lifesaver, I am crippled without it.

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Luke Barnard • Edited

Spectacle looks like a simple alternative - easy to install and a GUI to change settings.

If only it prevented windows overlapping and handled macOS spaces.

Update: if you haven't seen it chunkwm and skhd is a really solid combination to achieve a very customisable setup (non-overlapping and handling of macOS desktops). It took me a couple of hours to set up something similar to xmonad and I'll probably write a post about that soon.

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Matthew Orndoff

Yep. I use this as well. For me, MacOS is unusable without it.

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Carlos Garcia ★

More love for Spectacle. After moving from Windows 10 a month ago I was missing its simple but effective window snapping functionality. Spectacle does the job. It's only missing mouse triggers, but there are so many keyboard shortcuts to make up for it.