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by extr 1254 days ago
I've been using MacOS for awhile and this is likewise my one true gripe. I've played around with amethyst and yabai and also find them just a little too shaky to rely on. I miss the rock solid nature of i3/bspwm. And trying to script my own functionality with Hammerspoon or BTT has been an exercise in frustration. I'll give Swish a shot with this recommendation.

However I'm not sure Swish solves the big benefit of i3/bspwm for me, which is the lightning-quick virtual desktop and "send to desktop" functionality of a tiling WM on linux. Having two apps open side by side is useful, but not quite as useful as having two apps open full screen on virtual desktops 1 and 2, and the switch between them being totally instantaneous.

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> lightning-quick virtual desktop

I recall that yabai can achieve this with SIP disabled. It somehow injects code to disable the Space switching animation, so hotkeys to switch Spaces become instant.