Overview

I recently got my hands on a macbook, as a linux user even though I didn’t really want to use macos, but I thought why not give it a try once.

Even though I really miss aur, I am kinda happy with homebrew, but the one thing I can’t stand is the stacking windows,

after a bit of research I found that I could use tiling window managers even on macos, and that’s how I found aeropace.

What is Aerospace

Aerospace is a tilig window manager, so instead of stacking windows on top of each other the windows will be side by side or up and down, there will be no overlap of any windows, and there’s different workspaces which you can easily switch between using option+[number], where we can have differnt window setup.

Install

      # you can either read the official 
# https://github.com/nikitabobko/AeroSpace
# or run
brew install --cask nikitabobko/tap/aerospace

    

Setup

the config file should be on the home directory. The default config can be copied by doing,

      cp /Applications/AeroSpace.app/Contents/Resources/default-config.toml ~/.aerospace.toml

    

Usage

Aerospace can be run either by opening from the apps menu , or by running

      open -a Aerospace
    

Final Thoughts

I’ve been using this for a while now, and it has become a huge lifesaver for me.

my custom config can be found at

https://github.com/mufeedcm/dotfiles/blob/main/macos/aerospace/.aerospace.toml