ianyh/Amethyst

Tiling window manager for macOS X à la xmonad.

Qays H. Poonawala

@qayshp

Also, small inconveniences with FFM on that I’ve noticed and generally accepted as part of the trade-off:

When using extensions that have hovering menus in Google Chrome (specifically LastPass), the menus close as soon as the mouse moves, regardless of where the cursor is (on the menu or not). Currently, I just resorted to using keyboard arrows.
The same type of thing happens with iStat Menus, a macOS menu bar app that has a hover over when activated. I’ve tried adding the app to always float in Amethyst preferences, but that doesn’t help.

Mainly sharing to see if there are any workarounds I’m missing.

Tiling is so useful, but I must say, I also love FFM. Thanks for putting it in there!

Ian

@ianfixes

the Arduino IDE window (java app) seems to be 100% ignored by Amethyst

of course, as soon as I switch workspaces to say that and switch back, it starts working.

But I swear I moved it back and forth between monitors a few times, plus resized some frames (to prove that Amethyst was working) and it still floated

lstorey

@lstorey

Hi! I just installed Amethyst and it seems really cool. I'm having trouble with command-tab not working the way it used to. Previously, it would cycle through programs that had open windows in the space, now it cycles through all open programs (most of which do nothing, since they have no open windows in the space). Is there a different keyboard shortcut I should be using, or any suggestions for how to deal with this? Thanks!

Tom Flint

@tomflint_gitlab

in tall-right , are we able to split any of the areas on the left side of the screen?

Qays H. Poonawala

@qayshp

@lstorey

Hi! I just installed Amethyst and it seems really cool. I'm having trouble with command-tab not working the way it used to. Previously, it would cycle through programs that had open windows in the space, now it cycles through all open programs (most of which do nothing, since they have no open windows in the space). Is there a different keyboard shortcut I should be using, or any suggestions for how to deal with this? Thanks!

it looks like you want the setting for “When switching… switch to a Space” to be enabled. Screen shot above.

System Preferences -> Mission Control

Ian

@ianfixes

@ianyh is there anything between 0.12.1 and 0.12.2b3 that should break window handling and mouse stuff? I'm on a new work machine and noticed that (1) opening a new terminal window doesn't always reflow it, and (2) swapping secondary windows with secondary windows works, but secondary-with-primary doesn't

Ian

@ianfixes

Update: 0.12.1 is also misbehaving on this machine, I'll try to dig into it soon.

Ian

@ianfixes

calculations for 3column-left and -right formats seem wrong for mouse resizing

Ian

@ianfixes

In fact, 3-column layout with only 2 windows in it produces a gap...

Ian Ynda-Hummel

@ianyh

@lstorey did you find a solution to your problem? That shortcut is actually a macOS thing so installing Amethyst shouldn’t have affected it.

@tomflint_gitlab I’m not sure I quite understand the question.

Ian

@ianfixes

Good morning :) just pushed the fix for #759 but you'll have to tell me whether the protocol/extension-fu I'm doing is reasonable

Ian Ynda-Hummel

@ianyh

I saw the pull request go by. I’ll try to take a look soon.

Also, per your question about new work machine I’m not sure what would have changed other than maybe the OS version?

Ian

@ianfixes

I think the OS version is the same, although without the old machine (which was returned to the other company) I can't say

Ian Ynda-Hummel

@ianyh

The Arduino thing doesn’t surprise me. Switching spaces actually triggers an operation that grabs existing windows that Amethyst doesn’t know about.

Ian

@ianfixes

I could also be seeing some form of race condition that was obscured by whatever corp image was running on my old machine

I'm getting mixed results on this machine -- sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Chrome seems involved more often than not

Ian Ynda-Hummel

@ianyh

Chrome is weird these days.

Ian

@ianfixes

actually, that might be exactly what it is...

heh, well I already know what the fix will be

Ian Ynda-Hummel

@ianyh

As a part of their most recent big overhaul they started doing some hackery that broke, for example, focus follows mouse. It also makes switching spaces super weird. There’s an issue for it.

#754

Ian

@ianfixes

hmm, not sure where the issue is that I was looking for. See this comment though https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst/issues/689#issuecomment-417658195

right now I think we are handling window swaps etc by looking for "window on screen at point"

found it -- onScreenWindowsAtPoint

if we can start looking at the defined frame boundaries for the layout instead of at the windows themselves, that might fix all of this

so (without looking at how focus-follows-mouse works) i'd imagine that you just look for mouse moves that cross frame boundaries and then activate the window that's assigned to that frame

it would fix swaps as well in that case

@tomflint_gitlab one of the new 3-column layouts (beta version) or the widescreen-tall layout might do what you are describing. all of those take a slightly different approach to partitioning either the primary or secondary spaces

Tom Flint

@tomflint_gitlab

thanks @ianfixes -- tall-right is almost perfect, it just needs some more splits for the child windows. Amethyst is definitely on the right track. I love it.

Ian

@ianfixes

@ianyh just to sweeten the deal for reviewing #760, I've implemented a fix for the Chrome bug and I'll be testing it throughout the day (it builds on my existing #760 patch)

i.e. I can now use the mouse to swap windows with chrome

Ian

@ianfixes

this might be able to solve #754 too, but you'll have to let me know what the proper behavior + fallback behavior should be

i.e. i'm not sure how it would function in a floating layout

Pervez Iqbal

@pervezfunctor_twitter

I am using ~/.amethyst in mojave, none of the keybindings defined in the file are working

Dorian Cransac

@doriancransac

Hello! I've been trying to figure out whether I can modify the default mappings in Amethyst (the mod+. combo doesn't work on my french + mac keyboard layout). Does anyone know if that's possible?

Liam Newman

@bitwiseman

@doriancransac It should be. Under the "preferences" there a shortcuts tab.

you can change all the shortcuts there.

Tim Spence

@TimWSpence

Hello! Is there a way to hide windows from the tiling? eg use amethyst to manage 3 or 4 visible windows and use some other method of switching which windows are visible (alt-tabbing etc) Or is there another way of making tiles more mangeable when you have lots of programs open?

Dorian Cransac

@doriancransac

Ah thanks, didn't think to check there, just did a quick google search and somehow couldn't find the info. Thanks & sorry about that.

Ian Ynda-Hummel

@ianyh

@TimWSpence I don't know of any macOS mechanism that would let you do that, unfortunately.

Ítalo Drago

@DCitalo

Hey, so I just install amethyst on my Mac high Sierra and I am having trouble with it. I can't set any of my Security & Privacy items and none of Mac keyboard shortcuts (like command+tab) don't work anymore, anyone can help me?

Ítalo Drago

@DCitalo

Just a update: I relaunch my Mac and everything works, idkw that happens

NathanRightnour

@NathanRightnour

Hi, quick question. In the application I write in (Ableton Live), there are always several floating windows open. ("Floating" in the OSX sense: ^F6 toggles through them).

I use them so often that I need a way to tile them, so that they maximize screen space.

The issue is that they're always different sizes, so their dimensions would have to be detected in order to be properly tiled.

I've looked many places and no luck. Is this possible with Amethyst? Thanks!

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