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Glide
A keyboard-driven tiling window manager inspired by i3 and Sway that works alongside macOS Spaces.
Apache-2.0 OR MIT · Free download · Downloads from github.com
- License
- Apache-2.0 OR MIT
- Open source
- Source
- GitHub
- tmandry
- Verified
- 2026
About Glide
Glide arranges windows into tiled layouts in the style of i3, Sway and Hyprland. You turn tiling on per Space with a shortcut, then move, resize and group windows into rows, columns, tabs or stacks from the keyboard. Optional focus-follows-mouse and mouse-follows-focus speed up trackpad use, and layouts are saved so they can come back after a restart of the app in the same login session.
Key bindings and settings live in a TOML file, and a bundled command-line tool reloads the configuration and can install Glide as a login service. It needs Accessibility permission and expects the macOS "Displays have separate Spaces" setting to stay on. Releases include Apple silicon and Intel builds; the project is still at 0.x versions.
Information
- Source code
- tmandry/glide
- License
- Apache-2.0 OR MIT
- Website
- glidewm.org
- Download
- github.com
- Homebrew
- glide
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- github.com/tmandry/glide/blob/main/LICENSE-MIT
- github.com/tmandry/glide/releases
- glidewm.org
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