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See also Spectacle: https://www.spectacleapp.com/

Maybe not the most configurable but in return you get something that works out of the box and doesn't require you to read 38 pages of README.

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I'm a long time user of a similar tool called Divvy[1]. However both these tools are _not_ tiling window managers. They help us scale Windows manually by providing customizable shortcuts. A tiling window manager would take care of that automatically. Popular examples are i3[2] and XMonad[3].

As a user of both Linux and OSX, having no access to a real tiling WM is probably the biggest downside to me from an end users perspective.

1. https://mizage.com/divvy/

2. https://i3wm.org/

3. http://xmonad.org/

Divvy just works for me. Really, the two most common shortcuts I use are "take up the right half" and "take up the left half". That accounts for 80% of my usage of anything like a tiling window manager. In third place is an alternative for "maximize" which isn't the OS X maximize. (Has a use for certain legacy programs, and also as an alternative to OS X fullscreen.) The next two most common operations are "take up the top half" and "take up the bottom half."

The devs were pretty responsive to my request, as well.

I have the same use case; been using Spectacle for years now.

I use Divvy as well (on Windows). I wish there were a real tiling windows manager for Windows.

KWM looks like its actually hooking on the window creation event, so it functions like I3/ratpoison/xmonad/dwm/awesome/etc. I don't have a OS X machine to test it out (you'll pry Arch from my cold dead fingers, thank you very much), but it looks like the genuine deal compared to Divvy &co.

Just wanted to throw in a mention of Slate (https://github.com/jigish/slate) in here while we're talking about different options. I've been a happy user for a while now. Haven't tried the others, though.

Love slate, switched to it after ShiftIt went unmaintained a few years back, though it looks like ShiftIt is back in active development. Slate config is really nice, you'll feel at home if you are used to setting up vim or tmux configs.

Slate is the polar opposite of Spectacle. It's too much configuration for most people I'd say. I couldn't get it to work, and get back to my actual work in less than an hour so it was a non-starter for me.

I've used Spectacle for so long that I can't remember how it was to use OS X without it. The hotkeys are tied to my muscle memory, and don't clash with any of the stuff I care about (emacs, iTerm2, Chrome, etc).

Me too. It's awkward when I need to use someone else's Mac and it isn't there. I found some of the defaults did clash with iTerm, though. I use it mainly for toggling between full and half screens.

Wow, me too exactly.

I know, especially the full screen shortcut.

See also Bettertouchtool (http://www.boastr.net/).

There seems to be a lot of choice regarding very approachable windows managers for OSX these days. I throw in Magnet (http://magnet.crowdcafe.com).

huh, turns out there are way more options than I thought. I've been using SizeUp for a while, and am pretty happy with it.

KWM appears to offer significantly more funcionality than Spectacle, so a longer README is perhaps justified.

Isn't that... exactly what I typed?

I like the way he said it better.

Way more effective window tiling program than Amethyst IMO.

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