Comment by tra3
Comment by tra3 2 days ago
this is cool, I love multiple options on macOS.
What’s the difference between this and yabai or aerospace?
Comment by tra3 2 days ago
this is cool, I love multiple options on macOS.
What’s the difference between this and yabai or aerospace?
yabai uses native macos spaces and generally requires sip to be disabled to have a good experience(windows can't be moved between spaces without)
rift is essentially aerospace but implemented in a yabai style. yabai style meaning using low level, private apis and generally focusing more on performance. whereas aerospace prides itself on only using one private api.
usage wise, aerospace and rift both use a virtual workspace system where all of your (work)spaces are in one macos space so no red tape has to be cut in order to move windows from ws -> ws and so forth
to answer both comments: i've been working on a way to handle tabs but it's hard to find a solution that isn't half-baked due to the lack of info on tabs given by the os (there are no events or anything, just on a11y attribute that give info on tabs)
as for a scrolling layout, its possible, but does not fit that well with rifts layout, even thought you can get something similar using trackpad swipes to switch between workspaces
I'm pretty new to Mac and didn't know Paper had a port, what isn't to your liking?
I'm using aerospace. If I'm fine with performance, does rift provide anything else?
After playing with it for all of 30 seconds, my thoughts are: 1. It's ridiculously fast. Not that it matters that much, Aerospace is fine for me. 2. I somehow doesn't require any accessibility permissions... so it "just works" after running the CLI... 3. One thing I immediately noticed, is that it looks like moving a window to be accordion can be done in the same workspace?
So far I'm very impressed... not sure if I'm impressed enough to switch yet though... but being in rust does make it slightly easier for me to contribute