[pufuwozu]

I've been using Spectacle for a while and I am working on a port of Xmonad to OSX:

https://github.com/pufuwozu/osxmonad

So I was really interested in trying out this fork. A couple of problems:

* Doesn't look like tiling is automatic, you still have to tell each window which side of the screen to tile on (by using Command+Option)

* I was using it for a minute before it crashed - which I didn't even notice

If those two little problems were fixed I think I could definitely use this until I get my version of Xmonad working properly.

[fyolnish]

* I'm not planning to make it automatically manage all windows. That would never work correctly on os x, unless you have a huge display. One thing I'm adding is to make it keep windows that have been tiled already, at their correct size (so if you move a window from the left to the right, the remaining windows on the left will also be resized correctly)

* The crash, I will obviously have to fix :)

[ef4]

> That would never work correctly on os x, unless you have a huge display.

That seems like a non sequitur. The whole point of a tiling window manager is that you can map windows in and out of the grid -- they don't all have to be on screen at once.

[fyolnish]

There's no way for me to know the min/max size of a window in order to verify it can be automatically inserted into the grid. A lot of mac apps set their minimum window sizes to an annoyingly large value, making tiling those windows impossible on my 11" macbook air.

Also keeping track of individual windows through the accessibility api is not a trivial task

[carterschonwald]

Why didn't you ever tell us that osxmonad was online already! :)