Rift

Rift is a tiling window manager for macOS that focuses on performance and usability.

Features:

• Multiple layout styles
• Tiling (i3/sway-like)
• Binary Space Partitioning (bspwm-like)
• Menubar icon that shows all of the workspaces and the layouts within
• click to see the menu bar icon
• Rift menu bar icon
• MacOS-style mission control that allows you to visually navigate between workspaces
• click to see mission control
• Rift Mission Control view
• Focus follows the mouse with auto raise
• Drag windows over one another to swap positions
• Performant animations (as seen in the demo)
• Switch to next/previous workspace with trackpad gestures (just like native macOS)
• Hot reloadable configuration
• Interop with third-party programs (ie Sketchybar)
• Requests can be made to rift via the cli or the mach port exposed (lua client here)
• Signals can be sent on startup, workspace switches, and when the windows within a workspace change. These signals can be sent via a command(cli) or through a mach connection
• Does not require disabling SIP
• Works with “Displays have separate Spaces” enabled (unlike all other major WMs)