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Omacosy

Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP

Details

External ID
49374830
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
Omacosy
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Aug. 20, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
57
Upvotes percentile
0.8729838709677419
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Updated at
Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.

Description

I have been using omarchy on my tower since nearly a year now, shortly after it was released first. I really love the experience I am having with it but I still use my macbook for daly work, so I wanted to recreate a similar experience on it. Thats why I created omacosy, a setup for tiling windows, custom menu bar, some themes from omarchy, focus follows mouse, focus rings around windwos, some mac flavors with trackpad events and a custom mission control overview for your workspaces.I used AeroSpace over yabai for the tiling window manager because I didnt wanted to compromise on SIP which is a mac security feature. It is supposed to be keyboard first like omarchy to move windows organize workspaces etc The setup runs around 157mb of ram and consists of AeroSpace, Karabiner (for the super key), and five small self build swift binaries.I am running it daily on my M1 max macbook, currently on macOS26. I havent tested it much on other macbooks or macOS versions. The install script creates a manifest file to backup what was installed before and what it installed itself, the uninstall script takes that into account to clean up the macbook to exactly the state it was in before. It needs quite some permissions for it sfunctionality which I layed our in the project readme. I wanted to be really transparent about which permissions it uses and for what reason.I would love to get some feedback or see people trying it out and hearing your opinion. Mostly about what still doesnt feel smooth in the experience or if you find any performance issues.

Enrichment

Theme
macOS and desktop customization tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Hobby / open-source project
Normalized one-liner
omarchy-style tiling desktop for macos
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes Omacosy is a configuration and scripting dotfiles bundle (using tools like yabai/aerospace, sketchybar, and skhd without SIP disabling) wrapped in a standard GitHub repository.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Raycast, InstantSpaceSwitcher, Space Rabbit, AeroSpace, yabai

Concerns raised: SIP (System Integrity Protection) needs to be disabled, creating security risks, Difficult to memorize many keyboard shortcuts, macOS lacks command-line configurability compared to Linux, Korren repository no longer exists/unavailable

Feature requests: Alt+Tab support for instant space switching, Integration with floating window management, Broader documentation/examples for keyboard shortcut configuration

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Attention rank: #34 of 150 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 277 days after the earliest competitor.

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