Window manager

Sway is a tiling Wayland compositor and a drop-in replacement for the i3 window manager for X11. For MacOS, use the i3-inspired alternative Aerospace. To install sway use the following commands:

sudo apt install sway

To install aerospace for MacOS use the following commands:

brew install --cask nikitabobko/tap/aerospace

# Move windows by holding ctrl + cmd and dragging any part of the window (not necessarily the window title)
defaults write -g NSWindowShouldDragOnGesture -bool true

# Disable windows opening animations
defaults write -g NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool false

Sketchybar

Sketchybar is a highly customizable macOS status bar replacement.

Install instructions

brew tap FelixKratz/formulae
brew install sketchybar

When you use/create additional plugins, make sure that they are made executable via

chmod +x $HOME/.config/sketchybar/plugins/*