How I use my Display Real Estate

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I use a tiling window manager - dwm. Which basically means I have exactly this layout, but easier to manage and control via keyboard. I used to use a mac pro with divvy, sizeup, etc but the workflow is just not as good as when I'm using dwm. Your millage may vary, but I've grown annoyed at the decisions apple takes in OSX to cater to the most common denominator, ie. the common non techy user that likes that their machine looks hip and works how they expect out of the box.

Seems like you are on Linux box? Does dwm available for OS X.

BTW: I've no big issues with Divvy's keyboard shortcuts.

Oh yeah I used to use Linux until a company I worked for gave me a white Macbook. I liked it and bought a Macbook Pro. But the longer I worked with OSX the more I got annoyed. 4 years later I'm back on Linux. I didn't meant that you should change (which is why I said YMMV), but I just wanted to give another point of view of the benefits of using a tiling window manager.

A quick google search resulted in this though: https://gist.github.com/311377

If dwm is available in homebrew I guess it probably isn't that complicated to get it running in OSX.

thanks. I will give it a try.

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