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Yabai, a tiling wm for MacOS, is very good. I too was forced to use a Mac for my job and Yabai met my tiling needs as well as anything could have. Try it out next time you have to use a Mac!


Caveat Emptor: it feels _insanely_ slow.

I have a sway/linux laptop from 2017 and a 2020 intel macbook pro. The hardware in the mac is nearly double the real world performance but the way the windows move with yabai feels incredibly slow and janky.

And the hotkeys are a pain in the arse compared to sway, I resorted to skhd and karabiner elements working cooperatively.

Notes:

yabai needs a scripting addition, and new versions of it seem to need you to manually reload it.

skhd and yabai both need "accessability" access in settings, new versions seem to need to be re-added (and the old entry that you approved before gets a "No icon" icon which makes it feel jank and confusing, like, you think you enabled accessibility but it complains)

yabai also needs you to disable system integrity protections.

And added to that: most macOS windows can't be resized, so they fall off the screen or leave half a screen empty.

Honestly it was not a pleasant experience and was one of the main reasons I went back to linux, despite the subpar software support of things like zoom (which doesn't allow screensharing on wayland)


Zoom-in-the-browser (surprisingly) supports screen sharing on Wayland/Sway.


Also every time there was a macos update yabai needed some kind of fixing to get back to working order.

I really want it to work because otherwise macos is unusable for me


Amethyst is also not terrible if you're on MacOS




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