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Tiled scrollable window manager for MacOS

13 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 2 stories, 11 comments · first 2023-05-27 · latest 2026-06-02

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  1. PaperWM is the closest to this approach. There's also a macOS port: https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon
    comment by nsagent · 2026-06-02 · in macOS needs its grid back
  2. If you are on macOS but miss Paperwm or niri, etc this is a good compromise thanks to Hammerspoon: https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon
    comment by gedy · 2026-03-13 · in Hammerspoon
  3. There's this, based on the PaperWM GNOME extension. https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon
    comment by NatKarmios · 2025-10-03 · in Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
  4. …and while it has quirks, it works better than not having it. [0] https://www.hammerspoon.org/ [1] https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon
    comment by gedy · 2025-10-03 · in Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
  5. https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon
    comment by subjectsigma · 2025-10-03 · in Niri – A scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor
  6. Ha! The niri README has an answer for this, https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri , it is https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon , "Tiled scrollable window manager for MacOS".
    comment by jackbravo · 2025-03-12 · in The Future Is Niri
  7. there's https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon (i haven't tried it)
    comment by 256 · 2025-03-12 · in The Future Is Niri
  8. ▲ 1
    PaperWM.spoon: tiled scrollable window manager for Hammerspoon on macOS
    story by fanf2 · 2024-09-05 · 0 comments
  9. …hyprslidr (hyprland plugin) https://gitlab.com/magus/hyprslidr PaperWM.spoon (MacOS) https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon
    comment by hkmaxpro · 2024-08-24 · in Papersway – a scrollable window management for Sway/i3wm
  10. https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon
    comment by jryan49 · 2024-08-24 · in Moom 4: Next-generation window manager
  11. ▲ 3
    Tiled scrollable window manager for macOS
    story by xrd · 2024-05-02 · 0 comments
  12. …dimensions without asking me I just need the windows to be automatically put side by side: [1] https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon [2] https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM
    comment by nsonha · 2023-12-03 · in Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
  13. https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon is a plugin for https://www.hammerspoon.org that is directly inspired by PaperWM.
    comment by stormking · 2023-05-27 · in Ask HN: Scrolling Window Manager for macOS?