Rift

Rift is a tiling window manager for macOS that focuses on performance and usability.

• added border for focused window (auto corner radii supported)
• dwindle layout (like hyprland)

• no longer have any ghost windows with cmd+w
• if cmd+w happens on the last window, it will try to focus any window that is nearest to it
• auto switch to the workspace when open an app that has rule that moves to another workspace
• auto switch to the workspace when moving window to another workspace
• when first launching, it will try to stay on the same workspace of the current focused window
• when quiting rift, it will try to move all the windows (including hidden) to its position, so that we can use it right away
• when wake from sleep, everything should still be the same as before sleep (layouts, arrangments, windows, etc)
• added ability to resize windows with mouse

• performance improvements on race conditions
• fixed --validate flag to actually validate the config file instead of the restore file
• disabled animation by default
• added more tests
• fix every clippy warnings

• There's no binary release for this yet, to not confuse anyone
• You can clone this repo and build it yourself with rust
• I normally just use this in my nix-darwin with home manager, just search rift in my nix-darwin repo here
• No configuration changes, exact same rift configuration will still work

• I don't mind to contribute back to the original repo, as these are the fundamental fixes that makes it usable or replace aerospace for me.
• However, I am not inclined towards splitting out the codebase, cherry-picking the fixes, go through pull request, do changes and all the hassle to get them merged.
• If upstream accepts full changes as it is, I can just create a PR directly to the original repo.
• Anyone are welcome to take these code and pick them and contribute back to upstream too, I don't mind.
• The only reason this fork exists is to make it work for me if i want to use rift as my twm.

• Probably not, especially there's lots of code changes since then, I am not sure if I have the time to do rebasing for it.

• For now probably not, but if upstream has all of the fixes that I can live with it, I will just use the upstream instead.

• I don't know, as most part are from the original repo and they owns the credit.
• There's no new features being added as for now, but just fixes.
• One day if it drifted away from the original repo direction, probably thats the time.

• Multiple layout styles
  • Tiling (i3/sway-like)
  • Binary Space Partitioning (bspwm-like)
• Menubar icon that shows all of the workspaces and the layouts within
  ^{click to see the menu bar icon}

  
• MacOS-style mission control that allows you to visually navigate between workspaces
  ^{click to see mission control}

  
• Focus follows the mouse with auto raise
• Drag windows over one another to swap positions
• Performant animations ^{(as seen in the demo)}
• Switch to next/previous workspace with trackpad gestures ^{(just like native macOS)}
• Hot reloadable configuration
• Interop with third-party programs (ie Sketchybar)
  • Requests can be made to rift via the cli or the mach port exposed (lua client here)
  • Signals can be sent on startup, workspace switches, and when the windows within a workspace change. These signals can be sent via a command(cli) or through a mach connection
• Does not require disabling SIP
• Works with “Displays have separate Spaces” enabled (unlike all other major WMs)

Get up and running via the wiki:

config

quick start

Rift is in active development but is still generally stable. There is no official release yet; expect ongoing changes.

Issues and PRs are very welcome.

Aerospace worked well for me, but I missed animations and the ability to use fullscreen on one display while working on the other. I also prefer leveraging private/undocumented APIs as they tend to be more reliable (due to the OS being built on them and all the public APIs) and performant. ^{for more on why rift exists and what rift strives to do, see the manifesto}

Rift began as a fork (and is licensed as such) of glide-wm but has since diverged significantly. It uses private APIs reverse engineered by yabai and other projects. It is not affiliated with glide-wm or yabai.