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I posted this yesterday in the thread about the Rust-written window manager, but it's relevant here as well.

There are plenty of apps that provide varying levels of window-manager functionality to OS X. I would try a couple out and see which feels right to you. I have tried most of them, and personally prefer Moom.

http://manytricks.com/moom/ http://mizage.com/divvy/ http://ianyh.com/amethyst/ http://spectacleapp.com/ https://github.com/fjolnir/xnomad https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bettersnaptool/id417375580?m.... https://github.com/sdegutis/mjolnir

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I swear by Spectacle. After trying a number of other wms, this is the one I ended up using for more than a year now. It strikes a good balance for me between features and simplicity, and the keyboard shortcuts are intuitive and don't clash with other apps (like iTerm, Fantastical, etc).

You should try BetterTouchTool. It can do everything spectacle can, but has a lot more features, and support for trackpad gestures, and other nice things. It even has draggable window snapping like Windows/Ubuntu Unity.

That's what I used for about a year before Spectacle, but it's too heavyweight for my taste.

I swear by BetterTouchTool +1

Check BetterSnapTool!

I was going to add the URL for spectacle. Spectacle brought Windows 7-esque screen snapping to OS X for me.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spectacle/id487069743?mt=12

Thanks, Spectacle seems something like I've been looking for, but didn't realize exists! :)

Minus Mjolnir, I've tried the rest and still prefer Slate[1] but it hasn't been updated since Feb 2013. Actually I had never heard of Mjolnir before now. I like Slate's ability to define a config file that is just a little more powerful than the competition, plus it's easy to sync across machines. I haven't updated to Yosemite, but Slate works wonderfully on Mavericks.

[1]: https://github.com/jigish/slate

Mjolnir might still be worth trying. I'm not sure how you got Slate to work with Mavericks, but Mjolnir is very similar, under active development, and has Lua instead of JS as its scripting language.

Unfortunately, the lead developer has decided to work on a closed-source alternative to Mjolnir so a new fork has been made.

said fork is Hammerspoon - http://www.hammerspoon.org/

It looks like he thought about merging them for at least a few minutes[0].

[0]: https://botbot.me/freenode/hammerspoon/2014-11-25/?msg=26223...

There are some minor issues, but Slate generally works under Mavericks and Yosemite. Check out: https://github.com/jigish/slate/issues/405

I would 100% recommend Mjolnir as an actively-developed Slate alternative. sdegutis has a solid history of writing great window management stuff.

Mjolnir isn't actually under active development anymore. A few months ago sdegutis decided to write a closed source alternative which has not yet been released.

The mjolnir community does have an actively developed fork though called hammerspoon. http://www.hammerspoon.org/

I would recommend either of them, but hammerspoon has a smoother onboarding process.

Thanks :)

We'd love to get feedback about Hammerspoon, or suggestions for plugins we could add.

Feel free to drop by #hammerspoon on Freenode, or file issues at https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon

Fascinating. I hadn't realized Mjolnir wasn't under development anymore. I'm glad to see the community is keeping it going, though.

Hmm, do you have a source for that? (That Mjolnir isn't being developed).

I just checked https://github.com/sdegutis/mjolnir, and I don't see any mention of this, and the last commit was from November 15.

It is mentioned on this mailing list post: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mjolnir-io/sRimOiYqM...

My preference at the moment is Optimal Layout.

http://most-advantageous.com/optimal-layout/

but, I haven't spent much time with Mjolnir.

FWIW, I'm a very happy user of bettersnaptool

For another option, I prefer Window Tidy. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/window-tidy/id456609775

Have you tried TotalSpaces? It is my personal favourite so far, though I haven't tried all the others you listed, so would love to hear some other opinions on it...Thanks :)

The only one here I've been able to try was Divvy. Thought it was pretty useful in the pre-multidrag days.

Moom is by far the best I have tried, also. I really love that app.

Is Moom any better than Spectacle?

I don't think so. I went from Moom to Spectacle something like a year ago and haven't looked back.

Hyperdock is another

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