Show HN: rift – a tiling window manager for macOS
11 hours ago
- #macos
- #customization
- #window-manager
- Multiple layout styles including Tiling (i3/sway-like) and Binary Space Partitioning (bspwm-like)
- Menubar icon showing workspaces and layouts
- MacOS-style mission control for visual workspace navigation
- Focus follows mouse with auto raise
- Drag windows to swap positions
- Performant animations
- Trackpad gestures for switching workspaces
- Hot reloadable configuration
- Interoperability with third-party programs like Sketchybar
- CLI and mach port for making requests
- Signals sent on startup, workspace switches, and window changes
- Does not require disabling SIP
- Works with 'Displays have separate Spaces' enabled
- Active development, no official release yet
- Issues and PRs welcome
- Fork of glide-wm, uses private APIs reverse engineered by yabai