yabai3
yabai3 is an i3 sanity wrapper around yabai.
It's a simple zsh script.
Features
yabai3 provides a few commands that imitate the way i3 behaves under the same action, but uses yabai to accomplish the intended effects.
In the following list of available commands, <dir> refers to any yabai direction (north|west|east|south).
yabai3 focus <dir>-- move focus to window or screen in the given direction. It also cycles through stacks.yabai3 move <dir>-- move focused window in the given direction. It enters and leaves stacks, and also moves to adjacent displays.yabai3 layout-toggle-- toggle betweenstackandbspdisplay layout.yabai3 resize (shrink|grow) (width|height) <px>-- shrink/grow the width/height of the focused window by<px>pixels.yabai3 stack-(enter|leave) <dir>-- enter/leave a stack in the given direction with the focused window. These are also used internally in themovecommand, and can be used themselves for more specific stack management.
Most other i3 actions can be imitated close enough with existing yabai commands, so they aren't part of yabai3 (yet).
The example skhd configuration below also uses plain yabai in these cases.
Note that yabai3 is still young and work in progress, so more commands might be added in the future.
Usage
Create hotkey bindings just as you would for yabai itself, e.g. using skhd.
Opinionated and ready to use configuration examples for yabai and skhd that work with yabai3 can be found in files yabairc and skhdrc.
They assume that the yabai3 script is accessible somewhere on your $PATH.
You can replace yabai3 invocations with an absolute path to the script if it's not.
They also assume that the alias
alias alacritty-new='alacritty msg create-window; open -a Alacritty'
is available to spawn a new alacritty window. This alias ensures that a single alacritty app instances is reused for new windows and that any new window gets focused after creation. Change it to your terminal of choice if you don't use alacritty.