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Rift
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Rift is a tiling window manager for macOS that focuses on performance and usability.
Features
Properties
- Lightweight
- Privacy focused
Features
- No Tracking
- No registration required
- Ad-free
- Works Offline
- Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
- Tiling Window Manager
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- justarandom reviewed Rift
Buggy at time, but its on me as I'm running beta software on my device. However I like how customizable it is, its declarative toml configuration and its performance. I achieve a better poweruser UX on my Mac that Apple just couldn't deliver to me.
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Rift information
Developed by
acsandmannLicensing
Open Source and Free product.Written in
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- 57 Forks
- 80 Open Issues
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What is 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)
Comments and Reviews
Buggy at time, but its on me as I'm running beta software on my device. However I like how customizable it is, its declarative toml configuration and its performance. I achieve a better poweruser UX on my Mac that Apple just couldn't deliver to me.