I’m incredibly grateful to have found Christian Bargmann’s blog post on “So you want i3wm on MacOS?. Since I’m now using OS X, due my new company issuing Macbook Pros, I began hunting for an i3wm gaps equivalent on OS X. I am a huge fan of this and unfortunately is not matched on say Windows or OS X. So one can say run Ubuntu and boot into a Gnome desktop environment, or a KDE environment or even an i3wm gaps environment, all with having the save backend Ubuntu powering their environment. Linux has a lovely feature where it separates the desktop environment from the operating system backend.

Unfortunately, my favorite tiling window manager i3wm gaps, does not work on OS X. This not only includes tiling window managers, but also tools like tmux, and customized keyboards that have more ergonomic key setups. Overall, anything that allows me to use a computer without using the mouse, is a big plus in my book. If you’re unaware of what a tiling window manager is, check out my previous post on tiling window managers.Īs some of you might know, I’m a big fan of tiling window managers.

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