It spawns a borderless window, no tabs or address bar, but great if you just want a distraction free browser for a specific URL. Using Chrome in -app mode for browsing, for example, chrome -app=.

But to force a reflow from Amethyst is option + shift + z, so it's easy to do option + shift + x, then lift up the 'x' finger and hit 'z', triggering a near-instant reflow. This is actually a workaround for a bug, because iTerm's spawnnig of a terminal via global hotkey does not trigger reflow automatically. I bound an iTerm global hotkey to create a new terminal to option + shift + x.The odd app won't play nice with it, so just blacklist those from being window managed (or you can whitelist only apps you want).I was hesitant to using yabai as it required disablling OS integrity checks, whereas Amethyst just requires standard accessibility permissions. There is an alternative, yabai, which more faithfully represents i3wm. No affiliation, just a happy developer who has found it's helped with my workflow lately.Īmethyst is kind of like i3wm, but that's my characterization. I've been using Amethyst for the last two weeks, the shortcuts are starting to click, and I'm really enjoying it.

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