What's New

[BarutSRB]

🚀 OmniWM 0.4.9.8 + 0.4.9.9 — Smoother gestures, native Spaces, and a rebuilt core

Two releases dropped today, and together they're one of the biggest quality jumps OmniWM has had. The trackpad finally feels right, OmniWM now plays nicely with macOS's own Spaces, and under the hood the entire state engine got rebuilt for reliability. Here's the tour.

✨ Highlights

🖐️ Momentum trackpad scrolling (0.4.9.8)

Flick across your workspaces and let go — OmniWM now carries the motion with natural deceleration instead of stopping dead. There's a new configurable scroll style, so you can pick momentum for that buttery iOS-style feel or keep the classic snap scrolling (still the default). Post-gesture stray scroll events are suppressed, so no more accidental over-shoot.

🖥️ "Displays have separate Spaces" support (0.4.9.9)

If you run macOS with Displays have separate Spaces turned on, OmniWM now fully understands your per-display Spaces topology. It refreshes that topology as you switch around and — crucially — stops trying to manage windows that are hidden away on an inactive native Space. Multi-monitor setups just got a lot more predictable.

🔄 Rotated & portrait display support (0.4.9.8)

Monitor orientation overrides are now preserved and reported over IPC — portrait and rotated displays are first-class citizens.

🐛 Fixes & polish

• Stuck trackpad workspace gestures — fixed (0.4.9.9). Swipes used to occasionally get "eaten" by the focused app. OmniWM now reads gestures from a raw multitouch source, keeps the device alive while listening, guards against stray frames during stop/restart, and survives sleep/wake. Ordinary two-finger scrolling no longer leaks into workspace gestures.
• Hyper key, rock solid again — stable tap behavior restored with a dormant fast path, plus lower idle CPU cost from the event tap.
• Focus-follows-mouse cursor warp fixed.
• Smarter window sizing — frame writes now converge to a learned per-window size quantum, cutting jitter. Apps that flat-out refuse a size (looking at you, Steam) are handled gracefully with a dedicated tile rule and constraint feedback.
• Fewer phantom evictions — a window now has to be missed twice before OmniWM lets it go, killing flicker during rescans.
• ProMotion / mixed refresh rates — Niri scrolling stays in sync when a display's refresh rate changes on the fly.
• Native fullscreen windows keep their layout slot even when macOS recreates the underlying accessibility element.
• Your config is safe — unknown TOML settings are now preserved on save, so OmniWM never clobbers options it doesn't recognize.
• System modal focus is now tracked separately for cleaner focus handoffs.

⚙️ Under the hood — a rebuilt core (0.4.9.8)

0.4.9.8 quietly shipped a ground-up rewrite of OmniWM's state engine. You won't see it directly, but you'll feel it in fewer glitches and snappier layouts:

• Single source of truth — all window, focus, layout, and viewport state now lives in one WorldStore, mutated through one commit pipeline with topology validated on every commit.
• New focus engine — an intent-ledger + deadline-wheel design replaces the old retry ladders, making focus transitions deterministic (and replay-testable).
• Unified event routing — AX, CGS, mouse, hotkey, and IPC events all flow through a single intake path.
• Faster layouts — window constraints now resolve off the main thread, relayouts batch into single settled commits, overview thumbnails capture concurrently, and frame readback is skipped during animations for smoother motion.

---

Update: brew upgrade omniwm

🙏 As always, feedback and bug reports are hugely appreciated.