Amethyst

Raised as a usability problem by 14 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2014–2024), in 10 threads.

People raised many different problems with Amethyst, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 15 complaints

Window moves between workspaces and monitors are sluggish and unreliable2024-06-07
Windows are thrown to other workspaces or monitors sluggishly and the move sometimes fails2024-06-07
Configuration is GUI-only in a non-text format, and moving windows between workspaces needs awkward workarounds2024-06-06
Window tiling tools feel really slow when moving windows around2023-06-18
Tiled windows keep resizing unexpectedly, losing track of windows and mishandling tabs and fixed-size windows2023-01-14
Window manager keyboard shortcuts are poor and hard to use2022-02-24
Windows jump around unexpectedly and the app feels laggy2021-08-27
Getting the two wanted windows into the same space is fiddly and takes effort2020-12-16
Docs span several versions, so getting a simple project started is frustrating2020-08-12
Auto-snaps windows back to presets after the user has made custom adjustments2019-10-02
Focus-follows-mouse never worked as expected, forcing constant fighting with window focus and positioning2016-11-24
Automatically tiles windows into unusably small sizes on small screens2014-12-19
Window manager feels sluggish and laggy when interacting with windows2014-12-18
Very buggy around fullscreen apps, so the user stopped using it2014-12-18
Focus behavior is confusing; the two mouse-focus modes are hard to tell apart2014-12-18