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Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.

107 mentions on Hacker News by 82 people: 5 stories, 102 comments · first 2013-10-19 · latest 2025-08-23

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  1. …WM to OS X a few years back with no big issues. Even then there are partial solutions such as https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
    comment by bwilliams · 2014-01-02 · in Homebrew Cask – CLI workflow for the administration of Mac binaries
  2. …overlapping windows - but that's also solved by tiling window managers, like Amethyst and osxmonad. https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst On the whole I think I prefer the Amethyst approach - the snappy overlays themselves obscure information…
    comment by bazzargh · 2013-11-19 · in Show HN: Capture a screen area in OS X and automatically pin it
  3. …distribution. Amethyst - OS X port of Xmonad is quite good and I am using it at the moment - https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst . Brew is getting much better than it used to be and I don't remember a recent situation when I had problem with…
    comment by kozikow · 2013-11-01 · in Poll: What OS do you prefer for Web Development?
  4. Tiling manager - Amethyst ( https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst ) is port of xmonad for Mac OS X. Binary repository - brew cask lets you distribute Mac Apps as binary files. Furthermore in boxen ( http://boxen.github.com/ ) they did some…
    comment by kozikow · 2013-11-01 · in Poll: What OS do you prefer for Web Development?
  5. …really has enough space to be comfortable. (I've tried using Amethyst[1], but that's all) [1]: https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
    comment by dhruvmittal · 2013-10-30 · in Why I Stick with the Linux Desktop
  6. Did you try Amethyst: https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst ? It's Tiling WM modeled after xmonad for OSX. Among other things it brings better keyboard support to spaces. I have keyboard shortcut for "move to n-th space", "move focused window…
    comment by kozikow · 2013-10-29 · in Why I Stick with the Linux Desktop
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    Amethyst - A dynamically tiling window manager for OSX, modeled after xmonad
    story by osener · 2013-10-19 · 6 comments