Smooth window arrangement in macOS restored
Details
- External ID
- 45942797
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Smooth window arrangement in macOS restored
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Nov. 16, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.0982532751091703
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Restores functionality of window arrangement to that of X11 window managers: no more oppressive horizontal or vertical arrangement. No more window snapping!
Enrichment
- Theme
- macOS and desktop customization tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- window management utility for macos
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Altering macOS window manager behaviors requires deep native macOS internals, private CoreGraphics APIs, Objective-C/Swift runtime manipulation, and bypassing modern macOS window snapping and SIP constraints.
What it would actually take: Building this requires a native macOS daemon utilizing C, Objective-C, and Swift, hooking into CoreGraphics Accessibility APIs (AXUIElement) or private SkyLight/CoreGraphics server symbols. Overriding window manager behavior and disabling system-level snapping requires continuous event tapping, handling low-level Quartz events, and maintaining compatibility across macOS updates without triggering system security blocks.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #217 of 219 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Looks like the first mover among its competitors.
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- WindowReturn · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.58
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- Split · ph · 2026-09-25 · 57 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Resettle · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Sidebar based/tabbed tiling window manager for macOS · hn · 2026-04-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Xpectacle · ph · 2026-09-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Dinky · github · 2026-09-26 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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