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Having just gone through really yak shaving Aerospace into a spot that I'm happy with, I'm curious how folks on here manage having so many overlapping keyboard shortcuts?

Maybe it's just me, but I want to map to many things to some combination of hjkl just for the ergonomics...

Aerospace's modal feature sort helps solve that shortcut conflict... How are others dealing with this?

Pretty cool, but nothing beats Swish if you're using a Macbook trackpad https://highlyopinionated.co/swish/

With 5k/6k displays ordinary tiling is a joke: windows are too big. So apps like moon are far better option.

On Windows there is no such thing as Moom, so I use tiling manager like komorebi.

As a person switching between different OSs and devices, it’s a shame that rift seems to not use well-established key binding like alt+hjkl.

Also for 5k+ display (or ultrawide) this kind of window tiling is a must (which komorebi has)

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I used to be a big user of tiling window managers but, more recently, I’ve discovered that the workflow of something like Moom is nicer in more situations.

I used to be a heavy user of i3. It's very flexible and configurable, and you can do much more than just moving windows. But after I switched to Mac, I couldn't find a tiling window manager that was both feature-rich and stable. After trying several options, I just use Rectangle[1]. It's not a window manager; it only provides shortcuts for window placements like simply moving windows to left/right/top/bottom or splitting the screen into 3/4/6 sections and place windows. It covers 80% of my needs and there are no pitfalls or unexpected behavior, so now I'm happily using it. Another reason is that I'm getting old and tired of using very flexible software with tons of custom configs.

[1] https://rectangleapp.com/

this is cool, I love multiple options on macOS.

What’s the difference between this and yabai or aerospace?

I've moved from window managers to deterministic app switching with Rcmd mapped to capslock and dual cmd being tied to some window arrangement and screen swapping karabiner commands.

I've switched to what I consider a french cleat system where I have task specific app/window sets and only keep a single task open at a time.

Similar to how french cleat walls are for general storage but then you can arrange all tools for a project on a specific cleat for the duration of the project.

How many apps must a person use in reality that rcmd+letter isn't sufficient for deterministic switching?

Any web app that isn't just general browsing I have mapped to a safari app now, gmail, llms, etc. chrome's tab management is just a joke.