alertsla.blogg.se - Tiling window manager windows

When I open a new Firefox window, it automatically opens beside the other one and splits on an equal 50% with a 20px gap. But please note, you don’t get any defaults here, you need to configure everything yourself. # What it’s like usingĪfter configuring everything it’s very nice to use.

Every setting can be configured to be specific for a specific space.

Mouse support for resizing and moving windows.

But besides all that, it’s straight forward installation with Homebrew and a touch of the config-file and you’re ready to go!īut you should note that in order to use keyboard shortcuts, you need to install something that can execute yabai commands, like skhd (made by the same person as yabai).Ĭonfiguring yabai is a breeze, again, their wiki has great documentation with examples etc.Ī quick rundown of what you can configure: You also need to give yabai sudoers access, which can be a security drawback if something malicious were to be added to the project. Yabai has a great wiki with lots of documentation and examples, but the setup process can be a bit intimidating.įor starters you need to (in order to use it to its full potential) disable macOS System Integrity Protection, which has to be done on the machine while it’s in recovery mode. It removes the need to arrange your windows with your cursor.

Usually it doesn’t have overlapping windows, it’s more common for the windows to stack when they go over each other. It’s a window manager, for organizing the window arrangement, that removes the need to manually arrange your windows. So I thought I should write about using it this time, maybe you didn’t know there was a tiling window manager for macOS or have been waiting for someone to write about using it. But as of a month ago, it became compatible again.

And when I started working at Netlife I got a new MBP with an M1 CPU and yabai wasn’t compatible anymore. I used both my MBP and a Linux desktop at home, and on my desktop machine I had installed i3 because it looked interesting to have my windows organized automatically.Īnd on my MBP I couldn’t install i3, so I needed to look for alternatives and I somehow stumbled upon yabai. Before I started working at Netlife I had my own MacBook Pro from when I was a student, and I had spent a lot of time customizing and tailoring the OS to my liking.