![]() Basically, this gives me a large window on the left, and one or more windows on the right. This splits the screen vertically down the middle and then splits the right-hand side as required for the remaining windows. This has the effect of making the current window fill the screen. Shift-Option-D: Switches to the fullscreen layout. This makes the current window fill the entire screen. Here’s a quick video of me adding more windows for Amethyst to layout, then switching layouts, changing the main window, and going fullscreen.Īlthough 32" of 4K is a lot of screen real estate, sometimes I like to focus on just a single application. Shift-Option-Control-Space: Cycle through the layouts in the other direction (Wide -> Tall Right -> Tall -> Fullscreen)Īmethyst will remember the layouts and window positions after a restart so once you have things set up the way you like it should stay that way. Shift-Option-Space: Cycles through the layouts (Fullscreen -> Tall -> Tall Right -> Wide) I use these keyboard shortcuts to cycle through the different layouts: You can change layouts at any time and all your current windows will adapt to it. I’ve kept it simple and I just use four layouts in the Amethyst preferences: Fullscreen, Tall, Tall Right, and Wide. LayoutsĪmethyst has a number of pre-defined layouts along with one called “Binary space partitioning” which is extremely flexible. You can play around and find your own preferences but I’ll tell you what works for me. It’s quite daunting but you only need to learn a few which I discuss below. Two things you should know about Amethyst: everything is a keyboard shortcut, and there are a lot of them. If you open a window, it will either allocate it to a tile or expand the number of tiles and shift all the other windows to fit. In basic terms, this means it divides the screen into “tiles” then automatically places and resizes the windows to fill those tiles. With that caveat… AmethystĪmethyst is an “automatic tiling window manager”. I will say that the single best improvement Amethyst could make would be turning all the keyboard shortcuts into menu options and providing a visual guide to the layouts. This is very much not me so it might not feel like you either but read on and see. ![]() I need to google to get out of a tmux session. It took some time for me to understand it, and get productive with it, but now I think I have a good system that a mere mortal can use.īefore you tune-out you should know that I’m generally not a fan of UNIX-esque, keyboard-driven tools. If that sounds like some nerdy neckbeard Linux shit, you’re right. It was time for… a “tiling window manager”. ![]() The monitor was too big to full-screen apps most of the time, and it was tiresome to keep moving them around manually with Moom. There’s also Magnet and Rectangle which are very similar.Īll these window managers help you move, resize, and snap windows in position-but when I moved to a single 32" 4K monitor, I felt the need for something else. Moom was also great because you could drag a window to the edge of the window to dock it to that edge. Occasionally I’d need two windows side-by-side and I’d use Moom to shift one window to 2/3rds of the left screen, then I’d push the other window to the right third. With two or three smaller (non-4K) monitors, my default method of organising windows was to move them to a monitor and make them fill the screen. Last year I bought myself a 32" monitor to replace my previous multi-monitor setup. If you’re happy with a desktop that looks like this, then you probably won’t enjoy any of these suggestions This is how I use the Amethyst window manager on macOS.
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