Show HN: Omacosy – Omarchy-style tiling desktop for macOS, no SIP
Omacosy is a new tiling window management setup for macOS that aims to provide a lightweight, Hyprland-inspired experience without requiring System Integrity Protection (SIP) to be disabled. It focuses on efficiency, using minimal system resources to manage windows and workspaces.
Why it matters
It offers power users a way to customize the macOS desktop environment to match the workflow efficiency typically found in Linux tiling window managers.
omakase + macOS + cosy. An omarchy -style setup for macOS: tiling window management with a real Super key and Hyprland's dwindle layout, a themed status bar written for it (bar, popups, sliders and screen dimming in one process), focus-follows-mouse, trackpad workspace swipes with a Mission-Control- style workspace overview (live previews included), focused-window border rings, and unified theme switching down to the wallpaper — bootstrapped from this one repo.
The whole desktop environment idles at about 157MB of physical footprint — what Activity Monitor calls Memory — across WM, bar, three background daemons, the swipe daemon and Karabiner. Resident set size reads ~322MB, but RSS counts each process's share of the same shared system frameworks, so footprint is the honest figure. Measured on this machine docked to a second display , largest first:
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