(Part 2) Yabai vs Aerospace: Ultimate macOS Tiling WM Setup Guide

In this part 2 of the Yabai vs Aerospace video, we continue to setup Aerospace and leave it in a usable state, basically almost achieving the same results I personally get with Yabai.

Remember that AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS

yabai is a window management utility that is designed to work as an extension to the built-in window manager of macOS. yabai allows you to control your windows, spaces and displays freely using an intuitive command line interface and optionally set user-defined keyboard shortcuts using ↗ skhd and other third-party software.

The primary function of yabai is tiling window management; automatically modifying your window layout using a binary space partitioning algorithm to allow you to focus on the content of your windows without distractions. Additional features of yabai include focus-follows-mouse, disabling animations for switching spaces, creating spaces past the limit of 16 spaces, and much more.

The part 1 of this video can be found here:
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00:00 - Go and watch part 1 if you haven't already
01:47 - Quickly reviewing aerospace.toml file
03:08 - Stop yabai and start aerospace
05:33 - Testing out Aerospace keymap
06:19 - Fixing my aerospace paddings
07:22 - Configure skitty-notes so it moves to every workspace
09:21 - aerospace exec-on-workspace-change option
10:10 - How Aerospace talks to SketchyBar
10:58 - Gigachads just keep all apps in the same workspace
11:52 - How to resize and move windows with yabai
12:47 - Moving and resizing apps seems possible in Aerospace too
16:20 - Set up kitty as a floating window so it's unmanaged
16:49 - Find the kitty app ID in aerospace
19:50 - Make sure to re-open the app after reloading the aerospace config
20:57 - Now make kitty floating, for real
24:46 - Making sure apps are being moved to the correct workspace
26:32 - REMEMBER: for rules to apply, reload aerospace config and re-open the app
27:36 - Run SketchyBar when you start Aerospace
28:32 - Discussion on how to resize windows in Aerospace
30:20 - How to get the size and position of a window in Yabai
31:15 - Aerospace and sticky windows
32:00 - How to pin an app to a desktop in macos
32:58 - Performance issues in Aerospace?
33:48 - Any quircks or caveats with Aerospace at the moment? PiP
34:39 - WhySoSerious dotfiles, remember to star them
35:21 - Where can you find WhySoSerious?
36:12 - Conclusion, yabai or aerospace?
38:44 - Am I sticking to Yabai, or switching over to Aerospace?
41:16 - Kitty follows me to my other monitor, so that could be a drawback for me

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