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Ask HN: Is window management on OS X broken?
2 points by phoobot 3781 days ago
How is it possible to manage windows with multiple screens and multiple spaces using just the keyboard?

(Tiling might solve this, but my main issue is productivity)

This involves a set of simple features:

  * Maximize windows
    (Move to another screen and it is still maximized
     even though the screen is bigger, crazy right?)
  * Cycle windows (on just the current screen and space)
  * Focus another screen
  * Move windows to another screen or space
  * Optional: Move the mouse to the focused window
I tried tools like Spectactle, Amethyst or Mjolnir, but it took only a few minutes to realize that something is broken or missing.

Is this somehow possible? How do you solve this?

1 comments

I use Linux and Xmonad. I'm sold on tiling window managers for productivity. Xmonad will run on OSX with some limitations...it depends on Xwindows.