yabai
yabai started as a C99 rewrite of chunkwm, originally supposed to be its first RC version.
Features
Properties
- Customizable
Features
- Automatic window tiling
- Tiling Window Manager
- Tiling
- Tiling Layouts
Tags
- macwindowmanager
- windowmanagerformac
yabai News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
POX added yabai as alternative to MouseTiler
K0RR added yabai as alternative to term.everything
chetton added yabai as alternative to Spencer for Mac- RKitSeal liked yabai
yabai information
Developed by
Åsmund Vikane Licensing
Open Source (MIT) and Free product.Written in
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- English
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What is yabai?
yabai started as a C99 rewrite of chunkwm, originally supposed to be its first RC version.
However due to major architectural changes, supported systems, and changes to functionality, it is being released separately. There are multiple reasons behind these changes, based on the experience I've gained through experimenting with, designing, and using both kwm and chunkwm. Some of these changes are performance related while other changes have been made to keep the user experience simple and more complete, attempts to achieve a seamless integration with the operating system (when possible), proper error reporting, and yet still keep the property of being customizable. Requirements
yabai is officially supported on macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 and macOS Mojave 10.14.4/5. It uses a scripting-addition, which is a bundle of code that we inject into Dock.app to elevate our privileges when communicating with the WindowServer. The WindowServer is a single point of contact for all applications. It is central to the implementation of the GUI frameworks and many other services. Because of this, System Integrity Protection must be disabled for yabai to function properly.
Comments and Reviews
I'm using Yabai since it officially replaced chunkwm ... there is no better tiling WM for OSX. My productivity boosted enormously. On downside you have to put some effort to configure it with shkd ... but it is worth every minute of it. Pure joy especially for us programmers :)
This is fantastic piece of software for OSX if you like tiling WM form Linux world. Concept is clean and simple, as WM gets messages from another daemon called shkd.
Totally customisable and very fun and productive to use. Worth every minute of your time.