Native Instant Space Switching on macOS

why would you ever suggest disabling sip to "power users" seems bananas in this day and age.

why would you post anything that has to disable sip... seems silly in this day and age.

Great one. Thank you for sharing this.

BetterTouchTool is $25 for a lifetime license with upgrades.

I eventually became so frustrated with spaces in OSX, that I essentially try to avoid using them in macOS these days. Seriously, all I want is a way to move windows from one space to another via keybindings. I am not asking for much. In fact, IIRC, I think Snow Leopard had this feature. I know there were various solutions that cropped up, and even currently there are a few hacks. It just... such bullshit that it's not built in.

If one has a disability that hinders his or her ability to use a mouse/trackpad, then I strongly suspect there is no way for such a person to use spaces on macOS well. Though, it seems Apple could not care less.

this was SO annoying. thank you.

Truly baffling how apple haven't done this before

A lifetime license for BetterTouchTool with ALL its features is $25. The time the author spent on this is well over that amount.

What do people use for Windows-like window management on macos? I tried a bunch of them and I'm not a fan of any of them.

I actively dislike the notion of spaces.

You know Apple lost it and have become what Jobs most hated when the instructions to suppress an obvious UX flaw in macOS read like a registry tweaking hack for some atrocious UX in Windows, ca 2005.

I installed Debian stable + i3 + x11 on a desktop today - what a breath of fresh air (not that I'm new to Linux) compared to MacOS. No bloat. No animations. No lag. A perfect tiling WM.

No Secure Boot, no TPM, no SIP, no phoning home to the mothership to check if I'm allowed to launch an app, no spyware, no telemetry, no update nags, no trying to trick me into upgrading to the next major version.

I tried Sway & Wayland but IntelliJ freaked out so I went to x11

Also Nouveau seems pretty damn good these days.

KeepassXC works much better on Linux which is nice.

I'm keeping my M4 Macbook Air around for a while to play with local LLMs but it's not exactly the best for that, so I'll think it'll be on eBay not before long, because MacOS is getting more and more annoying...

Outstanding!

This is beyond stupid for macbook using trackpad gestures.

I can understand for mouse/kbd input though.

Curious — what was the hardest part to get right here? Was it performance or handling edge cases?

Wow, works great.

I used to use yabai for this but I can't disable SIP anymore on a work laptop.

Also, stuff like this is why I really hate macOS sometimes.

meh, i like the animation. I normally use it with the trackpad so the swiping back and forth makes it feel more natural if there's animation.

I’ve used TotalSpaces for this in the past, though Apple has essentially ruined the ability to make these tools successful with their SIP bullshit

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