ianyh/Amethyst

Tiling window manager for macOS X à la xmonad.

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.

geoffgolder-ah

@geoffgolder-ah

@ianyh can you elaborate? I am running the beta actually (this was the only way I could get the config file)

ah nevermind, I see this PR: ianyh/Amethyst#1209

i will see if i can understand it

geoffgolder-ah

@geoffgolder-ah

after looking I don't think it solves my core problem. the issue still remains that spaces are bound to "real" monitors. if I have two monitors; with separate spaces for each monitor, and a total of 6 spaces. osx will bind spaces One Two and Three to one of the monitors; and Four Five and Six to the other. In this example, we can only see at most one space at a time from each monitor; which is the crux of the problem.

So, if I have all of my "coding stuff" on space 1; and my "work browser" on space 2; in the above setup they could never been side by-side without swapping everything per-window to a space on the other monitor.

The core difference from xmonad (to my memory at least) is that when I switch to the equivalent of a "space" in xmonad, the "space" will take the place of the currently focused screen. wheras with amethsyt on osx; when I switch to a new space it will always just swap out the old one at the same monitor.

Ian Ynda-Hummel

@ianyh

Ah, I see what you’re saying.

Yeah, that’s mostly bound by the operating system.

You could conceivably implement it by moving windows around, but that would get hairy fast and has enough impedance mismatch to probably not be worth it.

geoffgolder-ah

@geoffgolder-ah

yeah I don't know anything about OS specific aspect of it; I am not surprisecd to hear that your intuition is that it would be difficult or impossible to get acceptable performance/feel. I am guess this is due to the cost/side-effects of moving a window across spaces?

Ian Ynda-Hummel

@ianyh

The basic idea is that virtual spaces and system spaces are the same in Amethyst as a matter of convenience. If we did try to implement our own virtual spaces we would be implementing something from scratch that manages moving the windows in the virtual space on screen, and those not in the virtual space off the screen. It’s a lot of functionality to build that is at odds with how the OS itself wants to be managing the windows.

Window management on macOS is kind of a hack because there’s no native extension mechanism. We piggyback on some APIs for accessibility and private undocumented functions.

geoffgolder-ah

@geoffgolder-ah

Thanks; I appreciate you taking the time to respond. I have been playing with it a tiny bit to see what things may be piggybacked on to minimize lift/maximize using the OS the way it wants to be used.

I am not sure if it is something that can be controlled via Amethsyst; but by changing which monitor is the primary monitor (the UI way of doing this is moving the white menu bar from one display to another in the System Preferences -> Display menu); I get behavior which could be exploited to get roughly the behavior I am looking for. It would really only work in a two monitor setup; or the third monitor would be out of scope for space-throwing.

So I guess two questions:

Is changing the primary display something amethyst can be given permission for?
Are there APIs available for manipulating space-to-desktop mapping that ametheyst could use?

I ask #2 because I noticed I actually can move spaces from one monitor to another; it is just the active space cannot be moved. However, if the primary display is moved (while each monitor has a separate space) the active space will move from the old primary display to the new primary display (they will swap).

Marcus Ramberg

@marcusramberg

Hey, is it possible to configure the default width of the main pane for the tall layout in Amethyst?

Ian Ynda-Hummel

@ianyh

@geoffgolder-ah I suppose there might be an API for moving spaces between monitors, but I have not looked in to that. I would be surprised if we had an API somewhere for changing promary display.

@marcusramberg no, but there’s an option for saving layouts between launches.

Marcus Ramberg

@marcusramberg

@ianyh thanks, have to look into that.

MGR

@finalmgr_twitter

Hello, I mainly use Two Pane and I often use "Swap focused window with main window" which switches the window I have on the right to my main which is on the left. However, the window that was originally on the left as main more often than not doesn't end up on the right (I have to cycle focus to get it back on the right). Is there a way to actually keep the window that is in main on screen but on the right? (My ideal "Swap focused window with main window" doesn't bring any other window to the screen)

n_shv

@n_shv:matrix.org

[m]

Amethyst float rust apps (just ignores) such as Alacritty and Neovide. Is there any way to fix that?

EmilioAK

@EmilioAK

If I have 3 windows in a desktop and I want to show 2 at a time, how do I swap a window with a hidden one?

dxmh

@dxmh:matrix.org

[m]

Hi, is it possible to restart Amethyst via the CLI? I’d like to write a script to restart it whenever there are changes to ~/.amethyst.yml

dxmh

@dxmh:matrix.org

[m]

For now I’m using pkill Amethyst; rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.amethyst.Amethyst.plist; open -a Amethyst, but wondered if there was a nicer way. 🙂

dxmh

@dxmh:matrix.org

[m]

:point_up: Edit: Hi, is it possible to relaunch Amethyst via the CLI? I’d like to write a script to relaunch it whenever there are changes to ~/.amethyst.yml

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kurtpeniket

@kurtpeniket

Hello, love Amethyst and use it every day. Just want to know if there's a way to switch between two instances of the same program? If I have two terminal windows open on different monitors and I cycle to the terminal on either monitor it only ever selects the one window (even if I'm on the opposite screen) but in some circumstances I need to have terminals on both screens and be able to swap between them. Apologies if the answer is already out there, not been able to find it in the docs.

Eric Auld

@ericauld

Hi, love the app. I submitted an issue: "When throwing windows between spaces in floating layout, retain size". ianyh/Amethyst#1336

Craig Rodrigues

@rodrigc

If I look at /Applications/Amethyst.app/Contents/Resources/default.amethyst , I only see 4 layouts in the config file:

    "layouts": [
        "tall",
        "wide",
        "fullscreen",
        "column"
    ],

Is there any reason why not to add all the layouts to this config file, such as what was done in this PR: https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst/pull/1307/files ?

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bin101

@bin101

Where can I find the docs? Currently the link return a 404:
https://ianyh.com/amethyst/docs/custom-layouts.md

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elto21ab

@elto21ab

Are you considering to add opacity/transparency control for floating windows? This is my biggest wish

beautiful-boyyy

@beautiful-boyyy

The alacritty can't handled by amethyst, has anyone encountered this problem before?

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Kirill Alexander Khalitov

@Voronar

Hi. Then I run custom shell applications through Automator (Application type with custom command via Run Shell Script) this newly created window doesn't handled by Amethyst and just behaves like free floating window.

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