Amethyst
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Amethyst overview
Amethyst is a tiling window manager similar to xmonad. It was originally written as an alternative to fjolnir's awesome xnomad but written in pure Objective-C. It's expanded to include some more features like Spaces support not reliant on fragile private APIs. Amethyst is free and open source under the MIT license.
Note: Amethyst must be given permissions to use the accessibility APIs under the Privacy tab of the Security & Privacy preferences pane. There is a comprehensive list of keyboard shortcuts that are available on the developer's webpage.
What’s new in version 0.20.0
Updated on Aug 21 2023
Notable Changes
- Toggle layouts with select-*-layout commands. Thanks, @EnakNalla!
- Introduction of command-line debugging tools.
- Fix an issue that scaled windows when moving between spaces.
- Fix a frequent crash on some types of long running application launches.
- Fix an issue with multi-display focus rotations when applications are distributed across displays.
What's Changed
- Amethyst 0.19.0 by @ianyh in #1451
- Implement more command-line debugging tools by @ianyh in #1457
- Bump activesupport from 7.0.4.2 to 7.0.4.3 by @dependabot in #1463
- Update Silica for scoping fix by @ianyh in #1467
- feat toggle window fullscreen by @EnakNalla in #1358
- Grab Silica app dealloc fix by @ianyh in #1470
- Update a couple of dependencies by @ianyh in #1471
- Move Troubleshooting section higher up in the readme by @ianyh in #1474
- Maintain frames on space changes when not changing screens by @ianyh in #1372
- Implement more robust window focus mechanism by @ianyh in #1530
Information
App requirements
- Intel 64
- Apple Silicon
- macOS 10.15 or later
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May 23 2021
Version: 0.15.4
after some quick testing im happy to say it looks good and makes tiling wm in macOS possible. the default keys are a little complicated but can changed ..
5 stars and I hope the developer keeps the program uptodate
Dec 17 2018
Version: 0.12.2
Open source window manager under active development. It does it's job and works quite reliable. Thanks to the dev for this little lovely tool.
Oct 9 2014
Version: 0.9.2
This is very promising. Keeps all my windows neat because if I accidentally move one, it puts it back into postition.
If you visit the GitHub project page at https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst/issues you’ll see there are a number of suggestions.
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