Aerospace Is The Best Tiling Window Manager I've Tried On macOS

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  • čas přidán 13. 09. 2024

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  • @joseanmartinez
    @joseanmartinez  Před měsícem +14

    Hope you enjoy the video! For wallpapers like the one shown in the video, check out my new gradient blur wallpaper pack here: bit.ly/46FaICU

    • @frag-2
      @frag-2 Před měsícem

      Hi @joseanmartinez, besides the content and the nice wallpapers, I fell in love with the look and feel of your zsh terminal, the colors, the icons, the status bar in the bottom, just everything looks beautiful together 🤩
      Do you have a video where you show how you configured your zsh terminal? And, by the way, I’ll give Aerospace a try. Thanks for sharing! 🫶

    • @joseanmartinez
      @joseanmartinez  Před měsícem +2

      @@frag-2Awesome! Thank you so much! Yes I have a detailed guide on that here: czcams.com/video/TTgQV21X0SQ/video.html. Hope that helps!

    • @renzodaal7445
      @renzodaal7445 Před měsícem

      Thank you for you awesome videos! I have switched over to using a Corne keyboard, using neovim and are now about to switch to using a window management tool because of you. The one question I always have when seeing window management videos is how people watch videos without going full screen. I personally use all my windows in full screen, but if I could make a video fill up an entire window without making the window itself full screen I could switch to using non full screen windows instead which seems much more efficient

    • @frag-2
      @frag-2 Před měsícem

      @@joseanmartinez Thank you!

  • @wojciech-kulik
    @wojciech-kulik Před měsícem +36

    I switched to Aerospace around 8 months ago (from Yabai) and I even contributed to Aerospace, but then I realized that actually I don't need any tiling manager, because 90% of time I use a single window maximized. And for the rest 10% of time I can just use a simple app that can move the window to the left or right :D. In my case it was actually a productivity boost, because I didn't have to fight anymore with multiple glitches caused by tiling managers like when a small window pops up and the whole layout is getting crazy :D
    Anyway, great video!

    • @tuananhdo1870
      @tuananhdo1870 Před měsícem

      great!

    • @AchrafDev-wi6eq
      @AchrafDev-wi6eq Před 28 dny +3

      which simple app did you end up using?

    • @codingdesk3637
      @codingdesk3637 Před 28 dny +2

      Same here bro! I have everything on one desktop and use Raycast to set shortcuts for sending a window to full screen, left side, or right side of screen. Works great when I hook up my laptop to my 39” monitor at home base too.

    • @wojciech-kulik
      @wojciech-kulik Před 27 dny

      @@AchrafDev-wi6eqRectangle Pro. It allows me to save layouts, so that when I disconnect/connect my screen, apps are properly distributed between screens :)

    • @mokied
      @mokied Před 14 dny

      That's what I do, but macOS throwing Full Screen videos into a new space is super annoying.

  • @user-ep4nd6fj2q
    @user-ep4nd6fj2q Před měsícem +21

    Thank you for your video. I am using aerospace for about 2 weeks and really like it, found it randomly in youtube. Hope your video will icrease popularity of this twm and contributors

  • @gauff3r
    @gauff3r Před měsícem +18

    great video
    thank you so much!
    i've ingored aerospace for some reason while hating my experience with yabai
    i've been using hammerspoon for my automations on macos
    i go back and forth from linux with i3/sway to macos and always struggle with macos tiling managers
    you've made my life so much better!
    thanks!

    • @joseanmartinez
      @joseanmartinez  Před měsícem

      Happy to hear that! Aerospace should work well for you then!

  • @ashleywilliams8122
    @ashleywilliams8122 Před 5 dny

    Fantastic walk through. So clear, concise and covered every question I had. Keep up the good work

  • @FalconCodes-dx2nj
    @FalconCodes-dx2nj Před měsícem +20

    Was so confused from the title lol. This video came in at the perfect time! I just got a mac from my work and its my first time ever using a macbook. Thanks a lot!!

  • @Mrhappymac
    @Mrhappymac Před měsícem +3

    I've really been enjoying your videos and this one is no exception! You've done a fantastic job introducing the Aerospace tiling window manager. Personally, I've invested quite a bit of time to get Yabai and my Elgato Stream Deck to work in harmony, but it's been worthwhile. However, I always appreciate learning about new tools. Your comprehensive guides are truly beneficial. Keep up the wonderful work!

  • @MrCaliban15
    @MrCaliban15 Před 24 dny +2

    Thanks a lot for the tutorial, it's a blessing to have all that knowledge for free, i'm trying to get a cool sketchybar working with my aerospace setup, but it's kinda tough, if perchance you have solutions i'll be glad, for now i'm using your config from a previous video, it's good but i'd love to be able to see my current aero ws with the apps related to it in my bar.
    Thanks again, much love !

  • @ryancodrai487
    @ryancodrai487 Před 29 dny +1

    One of the best things I have ever come across. This is going to revolutionise the way I work

  • @mdfrick
    @mdfrick Před měsícem +2

    I was so frustrated with having to switch to a Mac for work, but tried Yabai and hated it. Found Aerospace and have been using it ever since, about 4 months now. Love it. Very configurable, fast and scriptable. I've stopped having to mess with window positioning despite regularly going back and forth from working directly on my laptop and docking with dual 4k monitors where I want a very different layout.

    • @joseanmartinez
      @joseanmartinez  Před měsícem

      @@mdfrick Awesome!!

    • @akshayk467
      @akshayk467 Před 25 dny

      Hey, i just started using aerospace, i use a dual display setup. when i keep my external monitor as the main window, in the aerospace menu bar icon i see the built-in displays desktop shows up on workspace 10. how do i switch to that using the keyboard bindings? i can't press CMD+10 for obvious reasons.

    • @mdfrick
      @mdfrick Před 25 dny +1

      ​@@akshayk467 adjust your config to remove or comment out any bindings for workspaces you don't use ("workspace" command). I only have 6 configured as that's more than enough for me and all I can comfortably each with only my left hand.

  • @fixpoint
    @fixpoint Před 6 hodinami

    Great video introduction to Aerospace. Thank you!

  • @purian23
    @purian23 Před 9 dny

    This is one of the best walkthroughs I've ever seen that goes into this many details on how to actually use a windows manager like this! Thank you for your time and efforts, sub gained!

  • @aokijikuzan6453
    @aokijikuzan6453 Před měsícem +5

    I’ve also started using aerospace a couple of weeks ago and I also quite liked it

    • @joseanmartinez
      @joseanmartinez  Před měsícem +1

      @@aokijikuzan6453 Nice! I really like it too

  • @typkrft
    @typkrft Před měsícem +3

    This is amazing. Thanks for the heads up. I've been using yabai for years, but there's always been some pain points that this looks like it will resolve.

    • @joseanmartinez
      @joseanmartinez  Před měsícem +1

      Yeah I eventually stopped using Yabai and just recently picked up Aerospace! I really like it!

  • @toolbelt
    @toolbelt Před měsícem

    Been using Aerospace for past six months or more. It’s been wonderful. I learned some new tricks by watching your video. Thank you!

  • @kirillvoloshin2065
    @kirillvoloshin2065 Před měsícem +3

    great timing! was about to switch to yabai, but then this video pops up :)

    • @joseanmartinez
      @joseanmartinez  Před měsícem +3

      I think you’ll like Aerospace!

    • @dinhmai1268
      @dinhmai1268 Před měsícem

      I switched to yabai too, feel laggy when using aerospace, I checked the process, it cost too much RAM. I used it in m1 pro 16 inch 512/16gb

  • @XavierChanth
    @XavierChanth Před měsícem +1

    Been using for several months now and it has been absolutely great

  • @TheStudnet
    @TheStudnet Před 29 dny

    That's super handy! Been used almost all the window managers, but this one looks so good! Thanks for the review

  • @jamiebradley2505
    @jamiebradley2505 Před měsícem

    What a great video! Thank you for the time and effort you put into these tutorials. I've just finished installing Aerospace and WezTerm after watching your latest videos, love both of them!

  • @ErmandDurro
    @ErmandDurro Před měsícem +1

    As always amazing content. I really liked this one and I am going to try Aerospace right away 😄 Thank you Jose! 🙏🏻

  • @SuperKornXG
    @SuperKornXG Před 5 dny

    I super love this video. It helps me a lot! thank you very much sir.

  • @Twiddli
    @Twiddli Před 23 dny

    I was really struggling lately with yabai and skhd (buggy), compared to i3/hyprland config, this is a really well done tile window manager. Thank youfor making me discover it :)

    • @drewrl
      @drewrl Před 16 dny +1

      Just started using mac os for work after dailying hyprland for the past year and it was rough, aerospace has been pretty great on bringing some of those features over.

  • @BenjaminvonPolheim
    @BenjaminvonPolheim Před měsícem +1

    Nice! Thanks for sharing aerospace and the great intro how to use it. First thing to try on Monday.

  • @hanlinzhang2107
    @hanlinzhang2107 Před 29 dny +1

    I really enjoyed this style of videos. Could you make an updated video for Sketchy bar that can incorporate the aerospace functionalities?

  • @flwi
    @flwi Před 22 dny

    Wow, that looks great! Thanks for showcasing this handy helper

  • @theherk
    @theherk Před měsícem +16

    I really love aerospace. On my config, I name the workspaces as emoji so a single nice icon in the menu bar indicates which.

    • @joseanmartinez
      @joseanmartinez  Před měsícem

      @@theherk Nice! This is in the keymaps for navigating to different workspaces?

    • @theherk
      @theherk Před měsícem

      @joseanmartinez Yes. Anywhere the workspace name is mentioned in the configuration, it is done by emoji. You can check it out in theherk/commons.

    • @joseanmartinez
      @joseanmartinez  Před měsícem

      @@theherk sounds good, thanks!

    • @mnurrreza
      @mnurrreza Před 28 dny

      didn't know this. interesting. tysm

  • @skylinerdnb
    @skylinerdnb Před 9 dny

    Aerospace is the only wm on mac that works great with multiple monitors. Great job sharing knowledge about it with the others

  • @benarcher372
    @benarcher372 Před měsícem +2

    As always, high quality! Thanks

  • @DarioZaccagnini
    @DarioZaccagnini Před 23 dny

    Thanks for the video - been using Rectangle on Mac for the last 2/3 years - will try Aerospace

  • @lastink444
    @lastink444 Před měsícem +2

    Amazing. Thanks. Just as i was looking at the Aerospace because Yabai has never really clicked for me

  • @legymhueck9271
    @legymhueck9271 Před měsícem

    Thanks for the work you put into making this tutorial video and the blog post.

  • @grae69
    @grae69 Před měsícem

    Thank you so much man! This dropped at a perfect time. I have been using yabai and skhd ever since I saw your setup video but recently, my skhd config had some trouble and it stopped working. All of the things I felt were missing in yabai and skhd, aerospace fixes those. So thanks a lot!

  • @marcin.sobocinski
    @marcin.sobocinski Před měsícem

    Thank you for this video! I watched your Yabai video and was not convinced with the Yabai config but it looks like Aerospace solves most of the issues for me. I will git it a try for sure. I use Mac since 2001 and hate the navigation. I am shocked not every OS has real tiling option (usually it's a kind of crutch that doesn't give you full control over apps and desktop). Please do more of it especially "how tos" and "step-by-steps" :D

  • @Sameer_Kumar
    @Sameer_Kumar Před měsícem

    That solves all my problems with Yabai. Super thanks for finding it and sharing. 🎉

    • @ShadowWalker_X
      @ShadowWalker_X Před měsícem

      tell me about it. the last few weeks have been annoying. Switching asap

    • @joseanmartinez
      @joseanmartinez  Před měsícem

      Awesome! Happy to hear it!

  • @fixer8173
    @fixer8173 Před měsícem

    Great video! This was the missing piece in my workflow for sure, thanks

  • @Excalibaard
    @Excalibaard Před měsícem +1

    Have been using Aerospace for about a month. Never looked back at Amethyst or Rectangle. I did change the keybinds a little, and limited workspaces to numerics and a 'M' for Mac/Main screen.
    But I'm really glad that the horrible 'Spaces' are gone

    • @joseanmartinez
      @joseanmartinez  Před měsícem +1

      Yeah I think the reimplemented workspaces are a lot nicer!

  • @Xajsjs
    @Xajsjs Před 4 dny

    this is amazing, i think i wont need to use my iPad as an external monitor anymore. thanks for the video

  • @JonathanMorrisMusic
    @JonathanMorrisMusic Před měsícem

    Thanks for the insights into aerospace! I originally was going to use it instead of yabai but decided against it because it seemed too new. Glad to see it seems pretty stable, might make the switch!

  • @alexburdu
    @alexburdu Před měsícem

    This is great! Thank you for the crash course!

  • @pdreik
    @pdreik Před měsícem

    I have a week off from work, so it's a perfect timing. Reminds me of DWM from suckless. Never had an implementation, that I really liked on Mac, but this looks very promising. Implementing it on my MacBook Air now, and later this week, I'll try it on my Mac Studio with dual-monitor setup.

    • @mnurrreza
      @mnurrreza Před 28 dny

      coming from dwm, and then hyprland, as well. it is more akin to i3 so no dynamic window management. i hope there is a way (through plugin perhaps) to make it work dynamically with master-client tile.

  • @zuyax8088
    @zuyax8088 Před měsícem

    Thank you, Josean. I'm going to switch from yabai to aerospace now.

  • @jaye5632
    @jaye5632 Před měsícem

    Oh this is nice. It also works well with hammer spoon, so the hyper key + T for example will switch you to the correct space for terminal for example.

  • @shock9616
    @shock9616 Před měsícem

    I've been wanting to try a twm for a while, but the SIP requirement of Yabai always scared me off. Glad I've got a good option to try now!

  • @romanivanov6183
    @romanivanov6183 Před měsícem

    Thank you so much for this tutorial! it is amazing!

  • @JefCollier
    @JefCollier Před měsícem +1

    I have yet to watch this. For fear that now I'll have to switch over. Damn you @Josean. Damn you. ;-)
    I'll try to comment again tomorrow once I've done what we all know will end up happening.
    Damn you.

    • @joseanmartinez
      @joseanmartinez  Před měsícem +1

      Unfortunately, this is the nature of always looking for better tools/workflows 😅😂 I promise it'll probably be worth it! Thanks for all of your feedback and support 🙏🏽

    • @JefCollier
      @JefCollier Před měsícem +1

      @@joseanmartinez Welp. Here I go again!
      Honestly I didn't like the Lettered Space names when I first saw it, but you convinced me yet again with the mnemonics.

  • @devlife93
    @devlife93 Před 24 dny

    Great video!

  • @Keb_Le
    @Keb_Le Před měsícem +4

    Perfect timing! Was getting really annoyed of yabai 😅

    • @joseanmartinez
      @joseanmartinez  Před měsícem +1

      I actually had stopped using it for a while and was just using Rectangle until I found this!

    • @florianschweingruber2963
      @florianschweingruber2963 Před měsícem

      @@joseanmartinez what would you guys say are the advantages of aerospace over yabai?

    • @Keb_Le
      @Keb_Le Před měsícem

      @@joseanmartinez I did the same went and got a linux machine to use i3! Hopefully aerospace will be last wm i configure 🙏

    • @iXythe
      @iXythe Před 16 dny

      @@florianschweingruber2963 Having used both and switched to aerospace awhile go, I'd say aerospace is less buggy and the main thing is instant app switching, switching desktops take with yabai awhile even with reduced motions set in macos settings.

  • @nrg0xb
    @nrg0xb Před 27 dny

    Thanks dude! Great intro 👍🏼

  • @AizazShahid-ck8cn
    @AizazShahid-ck8cn Před 13 dny

    I don’t see how this is better compared to yabai. I am pretty happy with my yabai setup that plays really nice with sketchybar as well

  • @vichl3853
    @vichl3853 Před 26 dny

    awesome explanation as always

  • @some1csgo
    @some1csgo Před měsícem +1

    Thank you! I didnt think much of it, and the configuration seemed way more complicated than it actually is, but I am happy I did it! Even though the software is in beta, for me it works near flawlessly. My only problem is, that when I move a window on monitor #3 into a new Workspace X for example, it will move it there, but when I switch to X (ALT-X), it appears on monitor #1 and I have to Move-Workspace-To-Monitor it twice. Why can't the workspace be created in the monitor where I was. Maybe you know something.

  • @Muthukumar-jd5jl
    @Muthukumar-jd5jl Před měsícem

    This video is very helpful. Thank you.!

  • @keeganpatton5710
    @keeganpatton5710 Před měsícem +2

    Perfect timing

  • @matheusflds
    @matheusflds Před měsícem

    This is amazing, thank you!

  • @slammingrooves
    @slammingrooves Před měsícem

    Great stuff - I really liked i3 when Linux was my daily driver, and have wanted a similar experience since moving to Mac - I like the Mac experience, except for the window management, and aerospace goes a long way towards making it better. Now I just have to get these shortcuts under my fingers.

  • @absorpheus
    @absorpheus Před 20 dny +1

    Thank you for making this video and introducing me to aerospace. I just installed it on my MacBook and can confirm it's working really well! Switching workspaces is instantaneous with no animation effect which is present in the default Apple spaces. I'm using new window callbacks to maintain the workspace state for particular apps after reboots, however it will always group windows of the same app in the same workspace. Is it possible to have two different windows of the same app to automatically be moved to two different workspaces after a reboot? For example, I want to have a Chrome window open in Workspace 1 and another Chrome window open in Workspace 2 and have this workspace arrangement persist after reboot.

    • @absorpheus
      @absorpheus Před 19 dny

      I managed to get it working. In Chrome there's an option to name a window. After naming a window we can edit the config by creating a new window callback with an if condition to only run if there is a match on the window title. Very useful if you want to assign a specific browser window to a particular workspace.

  • @seaviasfo
    @seaviasfo Před měsícem

    The SIP, thing is why I stopped using yabai in favor of amethyst. Thanks for the recommendation.

  • @thereal-ghost
    @thereal-ghost Před měsícem

    Rectangle does everything I'd ever want. This seems nice for what it is though.

  • @haroonalbar2725
    @haroonalbar2725 Před 25 dny

    Thanks for sharing. Tried it and like it better than yabai.💯

  • @OnPoint911
    @OnPoint911 Před měsícem +1

    Can you make a video where yoy integrate your mac with nix package manager , homemanager and nix-darwin. It would be a huge help as the system will never break and all the dependencies would be separate and the config would be declarative. We would also be able to use more packages as nix unstable has almost 80000 packages second to AUR . It is a superior homebrew or macport and can replace it easily

  • @MusicGod030
    @MusicGod030 Před měsícem

    Thanks for this! I lived yabai and I was using it for around 2 years, but man aerospace is soooo much better!

    • @agenttank
      @agenttank Před 24 dny

      what are the pros and cons of each when you compare them? loving Aerospace, never tried Yabai because I was not allowed to disable SIP

    • @MusicGod030
      @MusicGod030 Před 24 dny

      @@agenttank
      ​- Yabai
      Cons:
      - You have to disable SIP for some features and I didn't disable it and because of that I didn't have workspace manipulation
      - If you want keyboard shortcuts you have to use skhd. I don't have a problem with skhd it's really a nice tool and I use it for other things, but you have to query then Yabai for everything related to it. Having built-in shortcuts that you can easily change is really a plus without trying to figure out how to query windows apps etc.
      - Since I didn't have the workspace manipulation I had to create every workspace that I needed manually and then I had to move the app in the workspace that I wanted and it can be a little bit messy.
      - Sometimes focusing to different apps didn't work and I would have to restart it in order to get it going again.
      Pros:
      - Because of Yabai I have learned jq which I now use regularly and it's a really powerful tool.
      - If you use a custom bar like SketchyBar, Yabai has a better integration approach than Aerospace for now.
      - It has custom rules that you can apply for certain apps and it has custom signals that you can invoke on certain actions and that can be helpful
      - Aerospace
      Cons:
      - If you use a custom bar like SketchyBar, the integration can be a little bit tricky to set and it depends on what you want to do, but I think Yabai has more options for their custom signals and events
      - If you want to change focus between multiple monitors (I use two) you have to first change the display and then change the monitor. In Yabai you can cycle between visible windows regardless of the monitor on which they are. Maybe you can do this with Aerospace too but I didn't find it.
      - Sometimes it is slow when switching workspaces. I found an issue on the github page and they are still trying to figure out why is that happening. It's not a breaking problem for me since the slow/freeze is 1 sec and then disappears.
      Pros:
      - You can manage your workspaces without disabling SIP and you don't have to create multiple MacOS workspaces but you only need one!
      - Built-in keyboard shortcuts and actions that you can trigger without using a third-party tool.
      - You can assign workspaces to letters and you can easily know which workspaces you have what. For example, I have my terminal on workspace T, I have my debug terminal on workspace D, my work browser on workspace W, etc.
      - When a new window is detected you can automatically move that window to whichever workspace you want. For example, I use this to move my Brave browser window to workspace W
      [[on-window-detected]]
      if.app-id = 'com.brave.Browser'
      if.window-title-regex-substring = 'work'
      run = 'move-node-to-workspace W'
      - You can force which workspace is located on which display if you use multiple displays which is so nice.
      That's all I could think of now :) I just started using it and I really like it and take this "review" with a grain of salt since I'm now more leaning towards Aerospace since it's a new tool that I use and everything is awesome and cool, but maybe for you, Yabai is better.

    • @MusicGod030
      @MusicGod030 Před 18 dny

      @@agenttank ​
      Yabai
      Cons:
      You have to disable SIP for some features and I didn't disable it and because of that I didn't have workspace manipulation
      If you want keyboard shortcuts you have to use skhd. I don't have a problem with skhd it's really a nice tool and I use it for other things, but you have to query then Yabai for everything related to it. Having built-in shortcuts that you can easily change is really a plus without trying to figure out how to query windows apps etc.
      Since I didn't have the workspace manipulation I had to create every workspace that I needed manually and then I had to move the app in the workspace that I wanted and it can be a little bit messy.
      Pros:
      Because of Yabai I have learned jq which I now use regularly and it's a really powerful tool.
      If you use a custom bar like SketchyBar, Yabai has a better integration approach than Aerospace for now.
      It has custom rules that you can apply for certain apps and it has custom signals that you can invoke on certain actions and that can be helpful
      Aerospace
      Cons:
      If you use a custom bar like SketchyBar, the integration can be a little bit tricky to set and it depends on what you want to do, but I think Yabai has more options for their custom signals and events
      If you want to change focus between multiple monitors (I use two) you have to first change the display and then change the monitor. In Yabai you can cycle between visible windows regardless of the monitor on which they are. Maybe you can do this with Aerospace too but I didn't find it.
      Sometimes it is slow when switching workspaces. I found an issue on the github page and they are still trying to figure out why is that happening. It's not a breaking problem for me since the slow/freeze is 1 sec and then disappears.
      Pros:
      You can manage your workspaces without disabling SIP and you don't have to create multiple MacOS workspaces but you only need one!
      Built-in keyboard shortcuts and actions that you can trigger without using a third-party tool.
      You can assign workspaces to letters and you can easily know which workspaces you have what. For example, I have my terminal on workspace T, I have my debug terminal on workspace D, my work browser on workspace W, etc.
      When a new window is detected you can automatically move that window to whichever workspace you want. For example, I use this to move my Brave browser window to workspace W
      [[on-window-detected]]
      if.app-id = 'com.brave.Browser'
      if.window-title-regex-substring = 'work'
      run = 'move-node-to-workspace W'
      You can force which workspace is located on which display if you use multiple displays which is so nice.
      That's all I could think of now :) I just started using it and I really like it and take this "review" with a grain of salt since I'm now more leaning towards Aerospace since it's a new tool that I use and everything is awesome and cool, but maybe for you, Yabai is better.

    • @MusicGod030
      @MusicGod030 Před 18 dny

      @@agenttank ​
      Yabai
      Cons:
      You have to disable SIP for some features and I didn't disable it and because of that I didn't have workspace manipulation
      If you want keyboard shortcuts you have to use skhd. I don't have a problem with skhd it's really a nice tool and I use it for other things, but you have to query then Yabai for everything related to it. Having built-in shortcuts that you can easily change is really a plus without trying to figure out how to query windows apps etc.
      Since I didn't have the workspace manipulation I had to create every workspace that I needed manually and then I had to move the app in the workspace that I wanted and it can be a little bit messy.
      Pros:
      Because of Yabai I have learned jq which I now use regularly and it's a really powerful tool.
      If you use a custom bar like SketchyBar, Yabai has a better integration approach than Aerospace for now.
      It has custom rules that you can apply for certain apps and it has custom signals that you can invoke on certain actions and that can be helpful
      Aerospace
      Cons:
      If you use a custom bar like SketchyBar, the integration can be a little bit tricky to set and it depends on what you want to do, but I think Yabai has more options for their custom signals and events
      If you want to change focus between multiple monitors (I use two) you have to first change the display and then change the monitor. In Yabai you can cycle between visible windows regardless of the monitor on which they are. Maybe you can do this with Aerospace too but I didn't find it.
      Sometimes it is slow when switching workspaces. I found an issue on the github page and they are still trying to figure out why is that happening. It's not a breaking problem for me since the slow/freeze is 1 sec and then disappears.
      Pros:
      You can manage your workspaces without disabling SIP and you don't have to create multiple MacOS workspaces but you only need one!
      Built-in keyboard shortcuts and actions that you can trigger without using a third-party tool.
      You can assign workspaces to letters and you can easily know which workspaces you have what. For example, I have my terminal on workspace T, I have my debug terminal on workspace D, my work browser on workspace W, etc.
      When a new window is detected you can automatically move that window to whichever workspace you want. For example, I use this to move my Brave browser window to workspace W
      [[on-window-detected]]
      if.app-id = 'com.brave.Browser'
      if.window-title-regex-substring = 'work'
      run = 'move-node-to-workspace W'
      You can force which workspace is located on which display if you use multiple displays which is so nice.
      That's all I could think of now :) I just started using it and I really like it and take this "review" with a grain of salt since I'm now more leaning towards Aerospace since it's a new tool that I use and everything is awesome and cool, but maybe for you, Yabai is better.

    • @MusicGod030
      @MusicGod030 Před 18 dny

      @@agenttank
      Yabai
      Cons:
      You have to disable SIP for some features and I didn't disable it and because of that I didn't have workspace manipulation
      If you want keyboard shortcuts you have to use skhd. I don't have a problem with skhd it's really a nice tool and I use it for other things, but you have to query then Yabai for everything related to it. Having built-in shortcuts that you can easily change is really a plus without trying to figure out how to query windows apps etc.
      Since I didn't have the workspace manipulation I had to create every workspace that I needed manually and then I had to move the app in the workspace that I wanted and it can be a little bit messy.
      Pros:
      Because of Yabai I have learned jq which I now use regularly and it's a really powerful tool.
      If you use a custom bar like SketchyBar, Yabai has a better integration approach than Aerospace for now.
      It has custom rules that you can apply for certain apps and it has custom signals that you can invoke on certain actions and that can be helpful
      Aerospace
      Cons:
      If you use a custom bar like SketchyBar, the integration can be a little bit tricky to set and it depends on what you want to do, but I think Yabai has more options for their custom signals and events
      If you want to change focus between multiple monitors (I use two) you have to first change the display and then change the monitor. In Yabai you can cycle between visible windows regardless of the monitor on which they are. Maybe you can do this with Aerospace too but I didn't find it.
      Sometimes it is slow when switching workspaces. I found an issue on the github page and they are still trying to figure out why is that happening. It's not a breaking problem for me since the slow/freeze is 1 sec and then disappears.
      Pros:
      You can manage your workspaces without disabling SIP and you don't have to create multiple MacOS workspaces but you only need one!
      Built-in keyboard shortcuts and actions that you can trigger without using a third-party tool.
      You can assign workspaces to letters and you can easily know which workspaces you have what. For example, I have my terminal on workspace T, I have my debug terminal on workspace D, my work browser on workspace W, etc.
      When a new window is detected you can automatically move that window to whichever workspace you want. For example, I use this to move my Brave browser window to workspace W
      [[on-window-detected]]
      if.app-id = 'com.brave.Browser'
      if.window-title-regex-substring = 'work'
      run = 'move-node-to-workspace W'
      You can force which workspace is located on which display if you use multiple displays which is so nice.
      That's all I could think of now :) I just started using it and I really like it and take this "review" with a grain of salt since I'm now more leaning towards Aerospace since it's a new tool that I use and everything is awesome and cool, but maybe for you, Yabai is better.

  • @InfiniteRain_
    @InfiniteRain_ Před 6 dny

    Hey love the video! What wrist rests are you using with your split keyboard? I just built my own and would like to buy some wrist rests for the two halves.

  • @moomincare
    @moomincare Před měsícem

    Wow! I'm going to switch from yabai to aerospace now.

  • @mfrh89
    @mfrh89 Před 20 dny

    Very nice video! Do you still use sketchybar and plan to embed Aerospace workspaces?

  • @svyatogor
    @svyatogor Před měsícem

    Wow, thank you, great overview of a great WM. I've been using yabai for some time but found it a bit too complex and getting in my way. This seems perfect. You should contact the developers of aerospace and they should link your review on the project page cause there "official" video is really bad and doesn't do justice to the project.

    • @joseanmartinez
      @joseanmartinez  Před měsícem

      Thank you so much! I might just give that a shot!

  • @exkonos32
    @exkonos32 Před měsícem

    I'm not a huge tiling window manager kinda user, at most two horizontal splits so rectangle + raycast was enough for me. I like having desktops for specific purposes but the desktop switching animation on MacOS drives me insane. Aerospace workspaces looks really promising, thanks for the video!

    • @DenisRasulev
      @DenisRasulev Před měsícem

      I'm trying to understand why we need Rectangle when we already have Raycast? I do all my window management only with Raycast. What am I missing?

    • @exkonos32
      @exkonos32 Před měsícem

      @@DenisRasulev Mainly it's because I was using Rectangle for a long time before Raycast came out so I've just become used to it. One thing that is missing from Raycast's window management is Rectangle Pro's (previously Hook Shot) window throw (short and long throw). Barring this, Raycast would suffice!
      At a glance there seems to be a fair few settings and features Rectangle has that Raycast doesn't seem to have. But I don't think I'm actively using any of them except window throw

    • @DenisRasulev
      @DenisRasulev Před měsícem

      @@exkonos32 Thanks for the answer! I use window throw in Raycast all the time. Just check window management commands in Raycast and use standard or assign your own hotkeys. Once again, thanks for the answer, it helped!

    • @exkonos32
      @exkonos32 Před měsícem

      @@DenisRasulev No worries! Window throw in Rectangle is having 8 zones around your cursor. You setup a modifier (ctrl+opt) in my case. When you hold the modifier you can just move your cursor to whichever zone for whatever window command you've set it up for

  • @blissofbeing
    @blissofbeing Před měsícem +3

    How often do you have two windows side by side? Seems like for your workflow you could accomplish the same thing by just maximizing your window and assigning global hotkeys for apps. So alt b opens browser alt t terminal. Then you don't have to have to think about workspaces and sending windows around. Once I did this I'm so much faster on my mac, I never need to resize windows because I always work on my laptop with one window max the whole screen at a time. I rarely ever need two windows side by side. I quickly fly back and forth between apps with my key combinations.

    • @Garpsta
      @Garpsta Před měsícem

      can you share how you did it? i have some global hotkeys and automaton services but i'm not happy with this specially how hacky I get the app to maximize it's bounds

    • @blissofbeing
      @blissofbeing Před 28 dny

      @@Garpsta I use hammerspoon for both setting global hotkeys and for window management.
      A simple hammerspoon function to maxamize a window is
      ```
      function resizeFull()
      local win = hs.window.focusedWindow()
      local f = win:frame()
      local screen = win:screen()
      local max = screen:frame()
      f.x = 0
      f.y = 0
      f.w = max.w
      f.h = max.h
      win:setFrame(f, 0)
      end
      ```
      then you can just bind it to a hotkey like:
      `hs.hotkey.bind({'alt'}, "c", resizeFull)`

    • @GreatTaiwan
      @GreatTaiwan Před 27 dny

      browser on the left and some terminal or postman on the right
      multiple terminals next to each others (ssh, docker, fixing stuff locally, looking at logs...etc)
      IDE on left + terminal or right
      benchmarking tool on the left +2 terminals on right
      this is how i work literely every single day

  • @therealvortex100
    @therealvortex100 Před 18 dny

    Is it possible to swap alt key for another key such as semi colon while changing the workspaces ? I feel like the combination of semicolon +1/2/3/ would be easy to reach.
    Also, how do you disable your macos animation while changing the workspaces, I've tried reduce motion but there's still fade in animation in there.
    Thank you for the tutorial.

  • @BlakeRogersNS
    @BlakeRogersNS Před 27 dny

    Nice video! Using rectangle you can do stuff like "move to left/right half, move to left/right third, etc" is there something similar with aerospace that can be configured that you know of? I have an ultra-wide monitor and like my terminal to take up 2/3 horizontally and my browser take up the other 1/3 (with hot reloading setup). Allows me to develop quicker. Currently, I just use rectangle hotkeys to do this but I've always wanted the other features of a tiling window manager (beyond what spaces can do).

  • @AlexGhoro
    @AlexGhoro Před měsícem

    Thanks! Yo no podia usar yabai por que en la mac del trabajo no me dejaban desactivar esas funciones, estaba usando Amethyst pero era un desastre con multiples monitores, ahora estoy probando y acostumbrandome a aeroespace, se ve muy bueno. Saludos!

    • @joseanmartinez
      @joseanmartinez  Před měsícem +1

      Me alegro mucho! Que bueno que te está funcionando bien

  • @hannesbruning4130
    @hannesbruning4130 Před 18 dny

    Looks good. Is there anything similar for Windows? Dont have MacOS at work

  • @arturdumchev3055
    @arturdumchev3055 Před 19 dny

    What's funny is that I had the same hotkeys for yabai, all of them

  • @rwedmonds
    @rwedmonds Před měsícem +1

    Man, I wanted to like this so bad, but it doesn't seem to play well with the Colemak keyboard layout even after adding the Colemak keymaps as suggested in the docs. If someone knows a trick, I'm all ears.

  • @andrii_suprunenko
    @andrii_suprunenko Před měsícem

    Cool video, man. I like using i3 in Linux, and I’m very happy to use it on my Mac. But I don’t really like the full-screen mode on Mac.

  • @bycello952
    @bycello952 Před měsícem

    thanks for this video dude, this is so much better than yabai!

  • @DavidHernandez-vj9wl
    @DavidHernandez-vj9wl Před měsícem +1

    for some reason, i can't change the focus between windows, any ideas why?

  • @acestacks__
    @acestacks__ Před 21 dnem

    awesome video, is there a way to make set floating window size like yabai?

  • @MaxSvid
    @MaxSvid Před 28 dny

    Aerospace is great! been using it for 6 months now on my work laptop and it really scratching that linux i3wm itch

  • @nanashi7726
    @nanashi7726 Před 11 dny

    Great Thanks!
    Which application do you use to display the letters on the keyboard?

  • @richrichrich
    @richrichrich Před měsícem

    This looks amazing! Thank you for the video; i3 on macOS at last 🎉
    Next up…a proper dwm clone? 😅

  • @mikelinsi
    @mikelinsi Před měsícem

    wow nice! thanks

  • @--Buxtehude--
    @--Buxtehude-- Před 10 dny

    Thanks for another fantastic tutorial. I am coming from Linux, so alt (click anywhere in the window to) drag and scale is important to me. Do you have a suggestion which app I should use? I've been using 'Easy Move+Resize' but it seems like it's not compatible with Aerospace. any suggestions?? Thanks!!

  • @zedmuir
    @zedmuir Před měsícem +1

    As usual, another great watch. Very informative. Thank you.
    I notice that in the video you no longer appear to be running sketchybar; have you removed it completely now that you're not using yabai? How easy is it to get used to the change from yabai with sketchybar to using aerospace? I have sort of got used to using the sketchybar to remind me where open apps currently are but I do really like the look of aerospace. Would appreciate any pointers.

    • @joseanmartinez
      @joseanmartinez  Před měsícem

      Seeing the apps in the menu bar is what I miss the most about my Sketchybar setup. Using the mnemonics of workspaces that start with letters for the applications you’re using in them should really help with knowing where to go and where windows are!

    • @GreatTaiwan
      @GreatTaiwan Před 27 dny

      none of the zlt shortcuts sre working for me for some reason

  • @Kohcta
    @Kohcta Před měsícem

    finally a sane tiling manager for mac

  • @Xajsjs
    @Xajsjs Před 5 dny

    why am i seeing this AFTER going throught the whole yabai setup in your video lol

  • @threee1298
    @threee1298 Před měsícem

    wow what a game changer, this is going to make my tmux commands feel so slow by comparison

    • @joseanmartinez
      @joseanmartinez  Před měsícem

      I still love using tmux! I typically only have one terminal window open and use tmux inside of that

  • @jammies701
    @jammies701 Před měsícem

    Nice vid mate

  • @openshores4288
    @openshores4288 Před měsícem

    This is awesome! Will try this asap..truly much better than yabai

  • @trench6118
    @trench6118 Před měsícem

    Just set this up last week, super easy

  • @ktappdev
    @ktappdev Před měsícem

    Great! thank you.
    Thought P would be for something else

  • @HellhammerHH
    @HellhammerHH Před měsícem +2

    Omg the sole fact that it is snappy when traversing workspaces...

  • @zeal514
    @zeal514 Před 27 dny

    jeez. i am so happy to be using arch and hyprland lol. it feels much simpler and fluid than this. Glad to see mac users atleast have something.

  • @fortran57
    @fortran57 Před měsícem

    Great content

  • @kgarbaya
    @kgarbaya Před měsícem

    I can confirm this way better than yabai, thanks for sharing

  • @sanjayatony
    @sanjayatony Před měsícem

    hi, thanks for the good content. I am using Reviung41 and your keymaps so far the best for me.
    I got a question, when using Aerospace what is your shortcut to numbered workpaces?
    is it still number, thats mean you need to go to anothr layer. or you create your own shortcut?

  • @Mateusz-o4o
    @Mateusz-o4o Před 8 dny

    Hello Josean, after watching your video titled "The Ultimate Minimalist Keyboard For Programming...", I have a question about lubing the switches. Mainly, is it a good idea to lube a low profile switches like the "Low Profile Gateron Mechanical Switch Set Banana", which I plan to use for my Corne Cherry v3 keyboard build? I haven't seen any other people lubing low profile switches, what do you think?

  • @racoder
    @racoder Před 12 dny

    Have you ditched sketchy bar ? Or are you using this in tandem with aerospace?

  • @hareesh2581
    @hareesh2581 Před měsícem

    Hello Brother,
    Love your content on CZcams and Blogs, can you please make a video on how you setup your website with Hugo also share your template, talk about how you setup your website?
    I am not a software Engineer, if you think it is easy to just download your theme, modify files and start created markdown files to publish blogs, it will be really helpful as i feel wordpress is veryslow.

  • @NRCPQ
    @NRCPQ Před měsícem

    Awesome Video! btw, when I close a window with command w. window's area wont go away and cannot use that area anymore, how you close window?

  • @jackhughes7041
    @jackhughes7041 Před 26 dny

    I would love to use this, but I also love using applications in fullscreen on MacOS, and I know that current tiling window managers for mac do not interact with spaces as they currently exist. Would it be plausible or possible to use a combination of Aerospace and windows I always want open in fullscreen and navigate between them with applications like AltTab and Raycast?