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Amethyst

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.

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  • Free
  • Open Source (MIT)

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  • Mac
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Bring i3wm like window management into macOS.

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What is Amethyst?

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.

Amethyst allows you to cycle among several different window layouts. Layouts can also be enabled/disabled to control whether they appear in the cycle sequence at all.

Layouts Include:

Tall The default layout. This gives you one "main pane" on the left, and one other pane on the right.

Tall-Right Exactly the same as Tall, but the main pane is on the right, with the other pane on the left.

Wide The rotated version of Tall, where the main pane is on the top (extending the full width of the screen), and the other pane is on the bottom. If either pane has more than one window, that pane will split into columns instead of rows.

3Column-Left, 3Column-Middle, 3Column-Right Widescreen-Tall This mode is like Tall, but if there are multiple windows in the main pane, the main pane splits into columns rather than rows. The other pane still splits windows into rows, like Tall.

Fullscreen In this layout, the currently focused window takes up the entire screen, and the other windows are not visible at all. You can rotate between each of the windows using the "focus the next window" shortcut, as usual.

Column This layout has one column per window, with each window extending the full height of the screen.

Row The rotated version of Column, where each window takes up an entire row, extending the full width of the screen.

Floating This mode makes all windows "floating", allowing you to move and resize them as if Amethyst were temporarily deactivated.

Binary Space Partitioning (BSP) This layout does not have a main pane in the way that other layouts do. When adding windows, any given pane can be split evenly into two panes along whatever axis is longer.

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