HACKER Q&A
📣 atommachinist

What is your window management solution?


Last week I made a post about my solution to window management.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44500066

Some of the comments were people sharing their window management solution so I thought I'd give people another opportunity to share.

What is your window management solution?


  👤 wingerlang Accepted Answer ✓
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👤 jamsey
my window management solution is more monitors :P

May I suggest updating your website though? its the main landing page and what converts visitors to users. Sex appeal of a website is a massive selling point, so might be worth spending some time spicing it up a little, maybe a clearer image of how your app works?


👤 paulcole
I use laptop only and Magnet to arrange things on my screen:

https://magnet.crowdcafe.com


👤 mikewarot
I've managed to live 61 years without learning what a Window Manager was until today... I've used the Microsoft Windows style floating window manager forever, and always thought of the tiling ones as some weird quirk, and a thing to quickly get disabled.

Thanks for prompting me to learn something new today. Usually I only have one application full screen at any time.


👤 mmphosis
I fire up Mac OS X 10.5.

Lacking that I use lots of monitors, turn off window snapping, swap the ctrl and alt keys. I cringe a lot. Why can't windows store position and size hashed to monitor layout? I get that PC hardware is janky but why the random monitor layout? I never want mirroring, why is mirroring the default? Why would I want 2K resolution on a monitor that can do 4K? I could go on.

I am adept with the mouse so I have come realize that we all have different preferences.


👤 snisarenko
https://www.waveterm.dev/

It's still rough around the edges. But best solution i've found so far.


👤 fragmede
I'm on macOS and have an app I wrote to let me drag move windows while hold command + Ctrl and move the mouse, and then command + shift + Ctrl will resize windows

👤 ofalkaed
Notion[0], tabbed, static tiling window manager. Everything in its place and a place for everything.

0. https://notionwm.net


👤 treetalker
On macOS: native multiple desktops; Moom; Witch (by Many Tricks); and there is also Brett Terpstra's Bunch.

I like the idea of using Bunch but I never do because it feels too complicated; requires an elaborate setup; and seemed to act weird whenever I started to use it.

Moom is awesome, and so is Witch.