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Amethyst

Tiling window manager for OS X similar to xmonad, written in pure Objective-C. Created by Ian Ynda-Hummel

Free Open Source
Mac

Amethyst is a tiling window manager for Mac similar to the xmonad tiling window manager popular on Linux. Amethyst is written in Objective-C and has configurable shortcuts, multi-monitor support, multiple layouts, and the option to float certain applications.

No command line knowledge is necessary to run this application.

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tiling window-manager

Amethyst was added by siphons in Jul 2015 and the latest update was made in Nov 2018. The list of alternatives was updated Jul 2019. It's possible to update the information on Amethyst or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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