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yabai
Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 4 years (2021–2024), in 6 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
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Automatic tiling forces per-window floating, which is annoyingUnreviewed
20212026- Tiling is flaky every few days, needs a restart keybinding to recover2024-06-06
- Automatic tiling forces floating per window, which the commenter finds annoying; also buggy and opinionated2023-11-30
- Tiling apps on macOS feel sluggish and window decorations are easy to click accidentally2023-06-17
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 12 complaints
- Moving focus across monitors requires chaining fallback commands with || in the config2024-06-06
- Tiling is flaky every few days, needs a restart keybinding to recover2024-06-06
- Switching between macOS spaces is too slow2024-06-06
- Moving a workspace to another monitor changes its ID, so keyboard shortcuts stop reaching it2024-06-06
- Touchpad registers accidental edge touches and taps more easily than macOS2023-12-01
- Loses track of windows regularly, requiring Yabai to be restarted2023-11-30
- Automatic tiling forces floating per window, which the commenter finds annoying; also buggy and opinionated2023-11-30
- Forced transition delay between spaces is extremely annoying when switching2023-11-30
- Tiling apps on macOS feel sluggish and window decorations are easy to click accidentally2023-06-17
- Dialog popups get treated weirdly by the tiling window manager2023-03-31
- Window manager feels too slow to interact with compared to sway2021-11-15
- Window moves feel slow and janky, and hotkeys are painful, requiring extra tools2021-10-08