Not to drop this kind hacker’s competitor, but I’ve been a happy user of https://rectangleapp.com/. Will definitely be checking this out instead tho, even though I’ve paid for rectangle — any demo that has SublimeText windows in it is a demo I trust!

I'm curious, what kind of features that are not found on Linux ?

For one, tools like Shortcat aren’t really possible on Linux afaict, since it relies on MacOS’s fantastic accessibility API.

https://shortcat.app/

> Search and summon windows > > Shortcat lets you search window titles for more precise multi-tasking.

StumpWM has this and it's a beautiful thing (default binding: prefix+"). I got in the habit of titling terminal and browser windows with the topic name of whatever I was working on. Made for very fast switching to find what I wanted among many windows/topics.

Sadly I've needed to switch to Wayland and StumpWM is X11 only but it has a successor called Mahogany[1] that's being worked on.

Oh, and both are written in Common Lisp if you like tweaking your WM from the REPL.

[1]: https://github.com/stumpwm/mahogany

Hmm -- interesting/fantastic tool. Feels something like avy in Emacs, but for everything on screen.

I think this should be possible in linux with a bit of work (erm, famous last words?) especially because the whole desktop environment is fundamentally open and you don't need to depend on this providing an API.

But I think an even better approach is to have build this functionality using screen parsers backed by recent AI advances. That way, you decouple the source / rendering of content from the sink / consumption of content, and can have more flexible behavior on behalf of the end user. I anticipate (hope) such tools to pop up over the next few years.

The biggest QOL improvements imo are found in the approach to the user-facing API design.

Compare basic multi-monitor commands in something like bspwm[1] or yabai[2][3] to twms on Windows where this is typically handled transparently by directional `move` and `focus` commands understanding monitor boundaries.

Besides this, Whim has implemented a very functional ctrl+p style command palette which provides a great interface for more advanced on-the-fly/one-time window manager interactions.

With komorebi I think that having different border colours to indicate different types of containers is very helpful (one colour for single window stacks, a different colour for monocle containers, a different colour for stacks with multiple windows), as well as custom window-based work area offsets[4] (so if you have an ultrawide monitor with only a single window on a workspace, you can add offsets to the sides so it doesn't stretch across the whole width and give poor usability).

It's not really any one "big thing" but rather a difference in approach which adds up over many small design decisions.

[1]: https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm/issues/563

[2]: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/issues/505

[3]: from my own personal yabai config - imo this is not really acceptable for a user facing API, especially for basic commands like focusing and moving:

```

    # focus window
    alt - h : yabai -m window --focus west || yabai -m display --focus west
    alt - j : yabai -m window --focus south || yabai -m display --focus south
    alt - k : yabai -m window --focus north || yabai -m display --focus north
    alt - l : yabai -m window --focus east || yabai -m display --focus east

    # swap window
    alt + shift - h : yabai -m window --swap west  || yabai -m window --display west && yabai -m display --focus west
    alt + shift - j : yabai -m window --swap south || yabai -m window --display south && yabai -m display --focus south
    alt + shift - k : yabai -m window --swap north || yabai -m window --display north && yabai -m display --focus north
    alt + shift - l : yabai -m window --swap east  || yabai -m window --display east && yabai -m display --focus east

```

[4]: https://hachyderm.io/@LGUG2Z/112493589633823318

Clicklock is much nicer in Windows than the awkward methods I've found so far with Linux.