9/27/2023 0 Comments Macos i3wm![]() ![]() You can disable it by booting your machine in Recovery mode and executing the following commands on Terminal. To understand the implications of disabling SIP, you can read more about it here. ![]() To do so, you will need to disable the System Integrity Protection of your Mac, security feature of macOS first introduced in 10.13 and protects some files and directories from being modified - even by the root user. To unlock the full potential of yabai, it needs to inject a custom script into the Dock.app to actually manipulate windows and spaces. Yabai can manipulate the windows through the Dock.appThey can only do some basic tasks like sending windows to spaces and modifying window properties with the default setting. yabai ( ): Although yabai is based on bspwm, a tiling window manager based on binary space partitioning, it checks off a lot of boxes for me and works really well.īTW, I managed to create my desktop which looks like the image below.Amethyst ( ): I used this for a while, and though it does provide some of the features of i3, it lacks customizability, and there’s no option to bound applications to spaces.Veeer ( ) and Tiles ( ), made for people who want basic window management, but nowhere close to the functionality provided by i3.Upon wasting endless hours, I came across three different alternatives, given below in the order of difficulty in integrating. One of the most difficult tasks was finding a replacement of i3 since the underlying architecture is completely different. Moving across different Operating Systems means finding an alternative for every piece of software that was part of my configuration. I have been a Linux user for almost 7 years before I switched to the MacOS to improve stability and better software support (more specifically MS Office, yea I blame you Microsoft). Using i3-like Tiling Window Managers in MacOS with yabai. ![]()
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