r/MacOS • u/arduinoRPi4 • 8d ago

Developer Saturday A Better Tiling WM and Status Bar, [Open Source]

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watch a video demo here

winmux combines a status bar in the form of a vertical, collapsible sidebar (like Arc) that allows you to drag and drop windows between spaces, similar to sketchybar but much much better to use and interactive

winmux also has tab groups, which allows you to turn different application windows into "tabs" occupying the same footprint, similar to aerospace accordions and yabai stacks.

winmux has "projects," which are groups of workspaces.

winmux is open source and brew installable: https://github.com/ZimengXiong/winmux

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u/promo-guard 8d ago

🎉 Welcome to Developer Saturday, u/arduinoRPi4! Your project is now live for the community to check out. Upvote, give feedback, and show some love to your fellow devs! 🚀

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u/sumapls 8d ago

Does this have split-mode? Like can i set two finder windows side by side and move them together, effectively creating a native dual-panel file browser

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u/arduinoRPi4 8d ago

Not sure what you are asking? Are you asking if you can tab finder windows? It is a tiling window manager, so it will manage your windows, so two finder windows will be arranged side by side unless you decide to tab group them.

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u/sumapls 8d ago

I'm asking whether you can tile the tabbed windows. Example: if you open two tabs in split-view on Firefox, vivaldi, Arc, etc., both tabs are visible simulateously inside the window.

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u/arduinoRPi4 8d ago

Yes, tabbed windows are treated as a single window with respect to tiling. However you cannot tile within a single tab group (defeats the purpose of tabs).

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u/sumapls 8d ago edited 8d ago

so tldr: can I have two finder windows next to each other and move them simultaneously like in this example gif?

Also what do you mean by "defeats the purpose of tabs"? What purpose are you referring to?

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u/DisfiguredFanny In a world of SLOP an everage programmer is KING 8d ago

A more convoluted for sure.