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OmniWM a macOS tiling window manager Niri inspired

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Tabs, spotlight-like window finder, borders, etc... High Niri parity

HN · launched Dec 25, 2025 · 6 upvotes (top 73%) · 2 views

Niche: desktop window managers · 103 launches, 13 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Prosumer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

No Creating a reliable macOS tiling window manager requires deep, undocumented macOS Accessibility APIs, CoreGraphics Event Taps, and private SkyLight framework hacking.

What it would actually take: Built with Swift/Objective-C interacting heavily with macOS AXUIElement APIs, CGEventTap, and reverse-engineered SkyLight/CGS private APIs to move, resize, and draw borders around sandboxed third-party windows. The hardest parts are overcoming macOS window server latency, handling multi-monitor spaces, and dealing with undocumented OS-level window focus behavior. Requires specialized macOS systems internals engineering.

Discussion

1 comment analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: AeroSpace

Concerns raised: Option-key-based system creates conflicts with character entry and other keyboard shortcuts

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 1680 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #1295 of 1681 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 57 days after the earliest competitor.

  • tatami · github · 2026-11-11 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.81
  • Dinky · github · 2026-09-26 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.77
  • Tinywm · hn · 2026-10-16 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.77
  • tinywm · github · 2026-10-14 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.77
  • Yashiki · hn · 2026-01-19 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.75
  • window-sweaters · github · 2026-09-15 · 587 upvotes · similarity 0.69
  • SlideScroll · github · 2026-10-22 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • aro · github · 2026-09-22 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.63

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