ianyh/Amethyst

Tiling window manager for macOS X à la xmonad.

Andy

@drewauff

@HanSooloo The closest thing Ive found is "send new windows to main pane"

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Andy

@drewauff

Is there a way to always open only certain apps in the main window only?

Prabhjot Singh Chadha

@prabhjotsinghchadha

can anyone suggest which key, you have set for mod1 option + shift and mod2 ctrl + option + shift

LintaoAmons

@LintaoAmons

Hi! Just found this app and really thanks for making this!! One question want to ask. Is there a shortcut to set the currently focused window as the main window directly?

Sorry, didn't noticed the shortcut swap focused window with main window

Will Sheldon

@willsheldon

I've been having problems making windows float - specifically some browser extensions which open a new window. I got it working so i figured I'd share. It's done by telling amethyst to float all chrome windows, limited by window title, then run the below applescript to show the titles (which are not the same as what appears in the app bar) - maybe we could add a panel to the UI to list all open windows, making this easier?
tell application "System Events"
get name of every window of every process
end tell

Ian Ynda-Hummel

@ianyh

Hey all, sorry I haven't been active on here. There's no good mobile option for Gitter, and that's usually where I am when I have time available. Considering switching to Discord.

Ian Ynda-Hummel

@ianyh

Okay, going to give this a try.

https://discord.gg/XCy3bbq2

Jordan Parker

@nepthar

Hi @ianyh , It looks like that discord invite is invalid. Is there a more recent one?

Ian Ynda-Hummel

@ianyh

https://discord.gg/MJuDsrpcUN

Changed it to never expire.

wibed

@wibed

hi anyone online here

does amnethyst disable itself after a while of not using the computer or should i be worried

Aryan Prodduturi

@SmashMineGame

what exactly does amethyst define as a small window? I'm referring to the "float small windows" option.

William Cherry

@wcherry

First off, thanks for putting in the time to create this great app. I finally can stop rearranging windows manually :)
Q: How do I enable debugging/logging to diaganose an issue I'm having with layouts working

Background

The app [version 0.15.5 (92)] works as advertised on my personal laptop running MacOS 12.1 but on my work laptop also running MacOS 12.1 layouts don't seem to work at all (e.g. the windows don't move or rearrange in any layouts)
I'm not getting any errors and I've checked the system logs and don't see anything obviously wrong. I'm 98% sure its something that IT has installed on my work laptop that is causing the issue.

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Abdisalan Mohamud

@abdisalan_js_twitter

Anyone else use an ultrawide monitor? I really don't like when I only have one window open and it takes the full space. Has anyone figured out how to make it half size and stay in the middle? I've tried using the other presets but not luck

My current solution is to have a useless window on the left while in 3Column Middle mode

Gerry Hernandez

@gerryhernandez

Greetings, everyone! I was hoping to get some help with setting up my environment for Amethyst development. The setup script seems to be outdated and I can't find any other documentation. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Gerry Hernandez

@gerryhernandez

Sooo.... Not to be too spammy/annoying, but I made an issue for this. Does anyone else build Amethyst from source and have it working in XCode? I could really use some help getting started. I'd like to hack on it for a bit and explore this as an alternative to Yabai.

Forgot to paste this: ianyh/Amethyst#1194

Jonathan Kelley

@jkelleyrtp

Does anyone have issues where their windows just disappear randomly?

I can't tell if it's a macOS issue or an amethyst issue

The window itself just becomes completely transparent but the buttons still work

dragobath2

@dragobath2

Hey guys - is there a way to use a specific layout as default? I have an ultrawide monitor and my preference is the 3Column Middle orientation. Is there a way to have the main focused window always in this orientation & dimensions even if there are no other windows open?

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danihra-codurance

@danihra-codurance

Hi! is someone else having issues with small windows being thrown to the background?

danihra-codurance

@danihra-codurance

like if i open the preference panel before i can do anything it gets pushed to the back

Andy

@drewauff

@gerryhernandez you can install it from Hombrew

Louis Pilfold

@lpil

Hello friends! Thanks for this excellent software. I'm trying to understand resizing using the mouse. Using the "tall" layout I seem to be able to resize the columns left and right, but I don't seem to be able to resize the right hand side row up and down. Am I doing something wrong or is that not doable?

Louis Pilfold

@lpil

I'm also having an issue where the windows in a layout reset to their original places when I change workspace, switching away from where I positioned them.

neverselling777

@neverselling777_twitter

anyone else having an issue where amethyst hangs when trying to switch windows around? use to be a option shift z would fix it, but now it can hang for 30 seconds or even longer until it snaps windows to their respective places. m1 macos monterey

dunpyl

@dunpyl

Hey guys, I'm trying out macOS after using Linux (Xubuntu) for ages, and horrified by the terrible, inflexible UI. Will Amethyst provide a task-switching feature that would me to exclude certain apps (minimized apps, apps on other Spaces)?

My workflow on XFCE was to set up a separate desktop for each project, then switch between them. I regularly had 4-5+ desktops, each running 10+ apps, so I really don't want to see them all in a single app-switcher menu.

Blake Barr

@bab354

Hi, I'm a long time Linux user and while Amethyst is not i3, it's the closet thing I have found. My frustration is that when I open up new windows (whether it be new browser windows or a terminal) it moves it to a different space, and not the current one which is what I want. Any way to fix this

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Ben

@bzeeman

I assume I am not the first person to notice that if you are programming and running a mac app and you've hit a breakpoint, amethyst stops working until you contiune?

anyone else seen this?

David Storm

@draglabs

I have been using Amethyst for a while and wondering if there is a way force float on top. I have this problem where if I float an important window the main pane or any pane can easily obscure it....

Andy

@drewauff

@draglabs afloatX is your only option.

Juanra Núñez

@juanra

Hi guys, for some reason the app stops working randomly. I'm in 12.4 using v0.15.6. Does any of you have the same issue?

Wazikamawata

@Wazikamawata

Hi all, I've been using amethyst for a few months now and can't live without it. I'm looking at swapping to XMonad on my Linux setup, and I was wondering if anyone's aware of how close to Amethyst's default keybindings it is by default, or if there's a guide on how to set up XMonad so it's similar to Amethyst?

Dusty Quince

@DustyQuince_gitlab

Hi guys. Just downloaded Amethyst. Sweet project. On the front page on Github, it mentions Layouts can also be enabled/disabled to control whether they appear in the cycle sequence at all. I'm trying to get at the 3Column-Middle layout, but I guess it isn't enabled in the cycle sequence. How do I enable that? This might be documented somewhere, but if it is, it's not immediately obvious where

Dusty Quince

@DustyQuince_gitlab

Ah. Found it.

Mohit Mayank

@cueo

Is there a way to disable the pop-up (is it called HUD?) that shows the current layout when switching spaces?

Juan M

@TaiSHiNet

Hi all, I'm facing 2 issues: controlling which of the main windows is the "real" main and swapping focused with main when using 2 mains

@cueo

sachinsid

@sachinsid

Anyone here use Amethyst with Single Site Applications like Unite/Coherence/Fluid? The SSA windows seem to have a weird behavior in that they don't follow any of the pre-defined layouts in Amethyst. The want to get 'out' of the pre-defined layouts for some reason. Not sure if this is a known issue or limitation with Amethyst? I'd like to be able to control the SSA App Windows just like any other window. FWIW, PWA's work fine, but unfortunately (for no fault of Amethyst), PWA's don't work with uBar (https://ubarapp.com/) - the dock replacement I need...

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geoffgolder-ah

@geoffgolder-ah

After being forced off linux and missing xmonad; I am very, very happy about amethyst. with a config file it is almost totally there for me.

one thing I am missing is being able to have a "virtual" space per monitor. my mental model would be to have e.g. "coding on space 1", "work browser space 2", "chat space 3" etc. and I could throw those spaces to whichever monitor I wanted; typically having "coding-space(1) on main monitor" and "browser-space(2)" on secondary monitor; but sometimes swapping out the browser monitor for chat-space-3 (or something).

in osx; the spaces seem to either be, all monitors together for each space, or individual spaces per monitor, but they are bound to the monitor; so I can't throw "space 1" to an arbitrary monitor.

unclear if this is my not fully understanding the tool; or a feature not implemented, or no one else does it this way, etc.

geoffgolder-ah

@geoffgolder-ah

i have adapted by still using the same mental model but now my "coding space" is across all the monitors simultaneously. this is mostly okay but less flexible.

ideally (for me) there would be another layer of abstraction within amethyst to work around the way osx treats spaces; with amethyst having some notion of a virtual monitor; allowing "screens" to be thrown between (or simply assigned to) virtual monitors, and then virtual monitors could be thrown between the real osx Spaces.

Ian Ynda-Hummel

@ianyh

If I understand you correctly this will be fixed in an upcomibg version. It’s in beta if you want to try it.

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