acsandmann/rift

Features

• Multiple layout styles
• Tiling (i3/sway-like)
• Binary Space Partitioning (bspwm-like)
• Floating (independent window frames with optional stacks)
• Master-stack (dwm-like)
• Scrolling columns (niri-style)
• Stack (accordion)
• Menubar icon that opens a menu for switching workspaces, changing layouts, and accessing quick Rift controls
  ^{click to see the menu bar icon}

  
• Save and restore layouts from the menu bar or CLI, with reusable layouts listed from a configurable folder
  ^{click to see the menu}

  
• Focus follows the mouse with auto raise
• Does not require disabling SIP
• Performant animations ^{(as seen in the demo)}
• Switch to next/previous workspace with trackpad gestures ^{(just like native macOS)}
• Hot reloadable configuration
• Mach port based IPC for communicating with rift from third-party programs (sketchybar, etc)
• Works with “Displays have separate Spaces” enabled (unlike all other major WMs)

Quick Start

Get up and running via the docs:

[
config
][config_link]

[
quick start
][quick_start]

Community

Join #rift:matrix.org for discussion, support, and development.

Support

If rift is part of your daily workflow, consider sponsoring its development.

Motivation

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}

Credits

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.

[config_link]: https://acsandmann.github.io/rift-docs/reference/configuration/ [quick_start]: https://acsandmann.github.io/rift-docs/quick-start/