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comboyyesterday at 8:24 PM1 replyview on HN

I highly recommend Aerospace[1], went through a few approaches, I cared about not completely compromising security either, it works really well if you come from something like i3

1. https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace


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idle_zealotyesterday at 9:57 PM

Seconding this. I find MacOS unusable without it. I'll ask here because websearch is failing me: is there a way to fix the focus stealing that happens when you have multiple windows of an application on different displays? Specifically, say workspace 1 and 2 are on monitor Left, while 3 and 4 are on Right. Application A has a window on workspace 1, B has one window on 2 and another on 3, and C has a window on 4. Workspace 1 is active on display Left, workspace 4 is active on Right. If I switch to workspace 3 the following happens:

- the switch goes through, Left displays workspace 1, right displays 3 (desired state)

- Application B is focused, presumably because its window on 3 becomes active (also desired)

- Display Left switches to display workspace 2, presumably because it contains a window belonging to the newly focused application B? (I don't want this)

- the window of application B on workspace 2 steals focus from the one on workspace 3 (???)

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