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I'm an i3 Linux user, and it's always sad to see the state of tiling window management on OS X. I use OS X on my work machine, and while I'm able to mimic some of i3's behavior on OS X, it's never quite the same, and I always find it frustrating.

There are a number of tools that provide some subset of the functionality, but they always lack some critical piece (oftentimes FFM, multi-monitor support, or window containers).

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One of the more frustrating bits for me is that on OSX there are four modifiers (shift, control, option, and command), but none of them is exclusive to interacting with the "window manager". There's a lot of interface dissonance when I interact with anything over ssh (because "cmd" takes the place of an "alt" key), or use X forwarding.

I've dedicated Mod4 to interacting with my window manager for over a decade and it's sensible. Mod1 and control (and, if absolutely necessary, shift) are plenty for keyboard shortcuts for apps.

I'm curious, what tools/configs do you use to mimic i3 on OS X? I'm also an i3 user, but currently using OS X for work.

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