[sbysb]

This is something I have come to realize I unconsciously have gotten very dependent on - MacOS let's you swap virtual desktops for the monitor you are currently focused on without swapping any of the others. I never realized how intuitive this is until switching back to my XFCE linux installation and getting very frustrated with virtual desktops entirely. I might have to give dwm a try again on my linux machine if it supports this.

[racingmars]

Yes! Before I went all-in on desktop Linux, I was a Mac user, and MacOS definitely got virtual desktops exactly right in this regard.

[justinsaccount]

They definitely did not.

OS X has the same issue as a lot of other VMs. You can not simply have a single pool of workspaces and chose to view any N of them, where N is the number of monitors that you have. In OS X you can have workspaces on your left monitor, and workspaces on your right monitor, but you can't easily share the workspaces between the monitors without re-arranging them.

The only WM I have used that gets virtual desktops right for multi monitors is xmonad. Maybe dwm can work the same way, not sure.

In xmonad you can have 10 workspaces and 2 monitors, and pull up any workspace on any monitor. You can have hotkeys to cycle workspaces on either monitor independently and a key to swap the two monitors.

[niij]

You can drag a workspace from one monitor to another in native Mac OS. With yabai you can hotkey it to send to a different one.

[hiptobecubic]

Not the same at all, really.

[hiptobecubic]

My first real job back in 2013 gave all of the devs macbooks to work on. I never used it specifically because osx couldn't do this.

Even now, they still don't get it right and treat each monitor as its own set of desktops.

[runjake]

Go into System Preferences, Mission Control, and uncheck “Displays have separate spaces”.

[hiptobecubic]

Oh if they fixed it that's great! I've got no reason to use it now, but maybe if I had another job like that one it would have been less frustrating.

[runjake]

FWIW: Not trolling, but I believe they added this setting in 2013 with Mavericks.

Now, if macOS could get auto-tiling options like Linux has...

[awsation]

Rectangle ? https://rectangleapp.com/

[wyclif]

Apple should really make a native tiling feature. I just don't understand why they can't seem to do that yet.

[runjake]

I use Rectangle currently but it doesn’t auto-tile. Not that I can find anyway.