What does HackerNews think of phoenix?

A lightweight macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript

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Ask HN: Why does Apple refuse to add window snapping to macOS? | Jun 2023
When I was annoyed with this I went ahead and downloaded phoenix (https://github.com/kasper/phoenix) wrote a little javascript and now I have a bunch of globally accessable hotkeys so I can lay my windows out in a number of combinations. Right now I have setups for over/under left/right, two by two grid, and three by three grid.

I've got some plans to spend some time enabling more arbitrary grids and subgrids but I haven't gotten to it yet.

Witch – macOS window switcher replacement | Jun 2023
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https://github.com/kasper/phoenix

This let’s you have complete control over tiling.
Vim-like “jump” cursor for Mac OS Window Management | Apr 2023
I have used phoenix for some functionality in the general area https://github.com/kasper/phoenix
macOS CLI tool to configure multi-display resolutions and arrangements | Jan 2023
displayplacer is an awesome tool that I've mentioned on HN a number of times before. I have my displayplacer command setup to be run by Alfred so that when I connect my monitors I can just invoke Alfred, type "disp", and hit enter.

The next step would be to have it auto-run when monitors were attached but this works well enough for me. displayplacer for monitor alignment, phoenix for window management, and my own hacked together mousejump for jumping over the monitor gaps make for an awesome experience.

[0] https://github.com/kasper/phoenix

[1] https://github.com/joshstrange/mousejump

Hyprland: A dynamic tiling Wayland compositor | Jan 2023
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Actually, if you're interested at all, I just, after literally months of reading about this, found a pretty sick solution.

Have you ever heard of Phoenix? https://github.com/kasper/phoenix/. Despite googling around for this exact topic, with 3.8k stars I had never heard of it. Apparently someone has created slim, JS scriptable interface that is basically tailor made toward creating your own tiling WM. I just installed it and loaded one of the examples: https://github.com/nik3daz/spin2win. And what it does is basically ignores the built-in spaces and creates truly virtual desktops by just hiding and resizing windows. And it works pretty well. The response time between switching "desktops" is basically instant.