hammerspoon
Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua (by Hammerspoon)
spaces-renamer
💻 Ability to rename desktop spaces on macOS 10.10+ (NOT CURRENTLY WORKING ON 14.4) (by dado3212)
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| hammerspoon | spaces-renamer | |
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| 114 | 6 | |
| 11,479 | 977 | |
| 1.4% | - | |
| 7.3 | 3.2 | |
| 19 days ago | 19 days ago | |
| Objective-C | Objective-C | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
hammerspoon
Posts with mentions or reviews of hammerspoon.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-21.
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Show HN: NotesOllama – I added local LLM support to Apple Notes (through Ollama)
Another option for hacking something like this together could be HammerSpoon. I’ve spent some time with it, but haven’t tried integrating with Apple Notes, I mostly did stuff at the file system level to keep it easy.
https://www.hammerspoon.org/
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Little macOS Apps That Make a Big Difference in 2024
For basic window tiling, I stumbled across Hammerspoon and the MiroWindowsManager spoon.
https://github.com/miromannino/miro-windows-manager
https://www.hammerspoon.org/
- Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
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[Hammer Control] Hammerspoon + SelfControl = Scheduling SelfControl
I use hammerspoon a lot and it seemed like scheduling SelfControl could be done using it so I created Hammer Control. Check it out!
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A collection of useful Mac Apps
Hammerspoon - Price: Free Desktop automation tool for macOS that allows you to write Lua scripts to control your Mac.
- Needed: Automation extension that can repeat movements/clicks in a browser
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getting current desktop to show on lockscreen? (MacOS Ventura)
Assuming no one has a cut-and-dried solution that just works, would something like this be possible with say, AppleScript or another scripting tool like Hammerspoon? I've not used either of these tools before, but would be open to seeking out a scripting solution on my own if it's viable. Or am I going to run into insurmountable security restrictions?
- Ask HN: Scrolling Window Manager for macOS?
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Fastest way to open Messages?
Spark (not the email app). There are others like Hotkey and Hammerspoon.
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Window Management & Snapping
I have tried different tools for this including Rectangle, but I've finally settled with hammerspoon. It solves the problem of window-management but you can also use it to create custom keyboard shortcuts and much more.
spaces-renamer
Posts with mentions or reviews of spaces-renamer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-02.
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Using PaintCan and CDock on macOS Monterey with an M1 mac?
Spaces Renamer GitHub repo - issues for it not working on M1 Macs
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Apparently you can play not-allowed iOS apps on Mac with PlayCover
Spaces Renamer. I’ve tried several other options but I suspect Apple only offers the index number (per display) in their public APIs, when I move spaces between displays the names don’t follow along and become mismatched. Depending on where I am and if I’m using my iPad as an additional display I can have one, two, three or four displays hooked up so spaces change frequently.
- Why cant I name my desktops in mission control?
- App to name Spaces?
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"Named" Spaces shortcuts / Spaces indicators
In this context, I really wanted Spaces to be named more characteristically than "Desktop 1", "Desktop 2"... This is not possible without a SIMBL plugin requiring to disable csrutil which is a no-go for me.
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Can you manually relabel desktop spaces? (like instead of "Desktop 4" or "Microsoft Word & Safari" like "Math Class" or "Friday")
One of my favorite open source tools: Renamer
What are some alternatives?
When comparing hammerspoon and spaces-renamer you can also consider the following projects:
AutoHotkey - AutoHotkey - macro-creation and automation-oriented scripting utility for Windows.
Spaceman - A macOS app to view Spaces / Virtual Desktops in the menu bar
yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning
mySIMBL - :package: Plugin manager for macOS
skhd - Simple hotkey daemon for macOS
Platypus - Create native Mac applications from command line scripts.
Rectangle - Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas
winBuddy - :open_file_folder: MacForge plugin to give windows some extra functionality on macOS
alt-tab-macos - Windows alt-tab on macOS
MacForge - 📦 Plugin, App, and Theme store which includes plugin injection for macOS
ShockEmu - Keyboard support for Dualshock emulation for PS Remote Play (macOS)
SpaceId - macOS space indicator
hammerspoon vs AutoHotkey
spaces-renamer vs Spaceman
hammerspoon vs yabai
spaces-renamer vs mySIMBL
hammerspoon vs skhd
spaces-renamer vs Platypus
hammerspoon vs Rectangle
spaces-renamer vs winBuddy
hammerspoon vs alt-tab-macos
spaces-renamer vs MacForge
hammerspoon vs ShockEmu
spaces-renamer vs SpaceId