zsh-completions VS skhd

Compare zsh-completions vs skhd and see what are their differences.

zsh-completions

Additional completion definitions for Zsh. (by zsh-users)

skhd

Simple hotkey daemon for macOS (by koekeishiya)
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zsh-completions

Posts with mentions or reviews of zsh-completions. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-15.
  • Arch Installation for Beginners
    3 projects | dev.to | 15 Sep 2023
    $ git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-${ZSH:-~/.oh-my-zsh}/custom}/plugins/zsh-completions
  • fish-shell: the user-friendly command-line shell
    24 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Aug 2023
    Am i the only one who feels fish is not worth it despite of hype? Don't get me wrong. I think that fish is really good shell.

    BUT...

    After adding the following plugins to zsh(before you chime in, it's just adding these lines,not anything configuring much. also it auto bootstraps on new install), I found out that fish is no where near configured zsh.

    1) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/zinit (plugin manager)

    2) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/fast-syntax-highlightin...

    3) https://github.com/zdharma-continuum/history-search-multi-wo...

    4) https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions

    5) https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions

    6) https://github.com/Aloxaf/fzf-tab

    7) any good shell prompt generator like https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k

    For example, I use fzf integration for tab completion. Fish's fzf integration is nowhere as good as that of zsh's. Also, posix compat and almost bash compat of zsh is plus.

    I acknowledge that zsh isn't perfect shell either and I have tried and failed few times in past to switch to fish. If you provide me compelling reason/s to switch to fish, I am all ears.

  • DevContainers for Azure and .NET
    12 projects | dev.to | 13 Oct 2022
    ## OH-MY-ZSH PLUGINS & THEMES (POWERLEVEL10K) ## # Uncomment the below to install oh-my-zsh plugins and themes (powerlevel10k) without dotfiles integration git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions.git $HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-completions git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting.git $HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions.git $HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions git clone https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k.git $HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/powerlevel10k --depth=1 ln -s $HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k.zsh-theme $HOME/.oh-my-zsh/custom/themes/powerlevel10k.zsh-theme
  • Help with some stuff
    3 projects | /r/zsh | 18 Aug 2022
    - Will enable completion by compinit is enough? I found some github repo (zsh-completions, zsh-autocomplete, zsh-autosuggestions), does that useful?
  • What are really usefull ZSH plug-ins?
    11 projects | /r/programming | 7 Jul 2022
    zsh-completions
  • Fish Shell 3.5.0
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jun 2022
    Zsh Completions is a pretty good alternative for anyone using zsh.

    https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions

  • Install Zsh on Windows
    3 projects | dev.to | 28 Apr 2022
    git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-completions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-${ZSH:-~/.oh-my-zsh}/custom}/plugins/zsh-completions git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-${ZSH:-~/.oh-my-zsh}/custom}/plugins/zsh-syntax-highlighting git clone https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-autosuggestions ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-${ZSH:-~/.oh-my-zsh}/custom}/plugins/zsh-autosuggestions
  • NVM Bash Completions with ZSH
    1 project | /r/zsh | 7 Mar 2022
    Is anything important missing from the native Zsh completion for nvm that comes with zsh-users/zsh-completions? If you haven't tried that, it may be better for the job anyway.
  • Creating a bash completion script (2018)
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Mar 2022
  • Oh My Zsh and Oh My Posh on Azure Cloud Shell
    9 projects | dev.to | 22 Dec 2021
    Install plug-ins for oh-my-zsh. Although there are many good plug-ins, this post will install the three popular ones – zsh-completions, zsh-syntax-highlighting and zsh-autosuggestions. If you want more plug-ins, follow the steps below.

skhd

Posts with mentions or reviews of skhd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-17.
  • My MacBook setup (the 2024 version)
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Feb 2024
    It exists! Check out [yabai](https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai), which is nicely paired with [skhd](https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd).
  • Ask HN: Best Hacks for a Ultrawide Monitor?
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Feb 2024
    I have a 49 inch CRG9 and the best recommendation for window management is Yabai (https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai) along with skhd (https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd). Yabai is a greedy window management solution that tries to fit opened applications in given space and skhd let's you easily jump between those using keyboard shortcuts. This has massively improved my ultrawide experience.

    Only disclaimer is, configuring yabai has a slight learning curve.

  • Yabai – A tiling window manager for macOS
    35 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 30 Nov 2023
    I want to echo this as well. I use a 2nd tool to help me add additional i3-like keyboard shortcuts as well (I have the ability to "stack" windows with Alt-S and rotate through them with Alt-J and Alt-K).

    It's called skhd https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd

    I forgot where the script for the stacking is. I can look that up separately, but I'm on mobile atm.

  • App Switcher on MAC
    2 projects | /r/macapps | 18 Jun 2023
    Try rcmd or skhd.
  • i3 Linux -> macOS
    7 projects | /r/i3wm | 5 Jun 2023
    What I've done is configure yabai and skhd in a way that somewhat mimics my i3 setup (dotfiles in case it helps) with the help of Karabiner-Elements since Apple wouldn't recognize my keyboard layout properly (or at all...).
  • Ask HN: I've run Linux for 13 years. Is it time to switch to a Mac?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Apr 2023
  • Keyboard tricks from a macOS app dev
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Apr 2023
    I use NixOS+GNOME+pop-shell for tiling windows on Linux, and I love it!

    I am quite frequently on MacOS, and I use Yabai[0] and skhd[1], managed with Nix-Darwin for tiling windows and custom keyboard shortcuts. With how I make my Linux and MacOS builds look and feel identical it's pretty easy for me to forget when I'm on one vs the other.

    For anyone curious, here's my repository for deploying my configs[3]. It's awesome to have one source of truth for managing NixOS servers and workstations, MacOS workstations, and other Linux workstations with Nix installed.

    [0] https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai

    [1] https://github.com/koekeishiya/skhd

    [2] http://daiderd.com/nix-darwin/

    [3] https://github.com/heywoodlh/nixos-configs

  • How to disable CMD+TAB in Terminal
    1 project | /r/MacOS | 20 Apr 2023
    You can install skhd with brew install skhd, and configure it by writing the following lines inside ~/.skhdrc:
  • Recommendation for an app to execute a workflow with some hotkey !
    2 projects | /r/macapps | 5 Apr 2023
    I personally use skhd for binding hotkeys to multiple terminal commands. BetterTouchTool can also chain multiple commands, but I find it harder to edit than in an UI, depends on what you're comfortable with.
  • Alternatives to Karabiner?
    1 project | /r/macapps | 11 Mar 2023
    That, combined with skhd (for script hotkeys) and my rcmd app (for app switching) gave me a much better solution than the hard to edit config I had in Karabiner.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing zsh-completions and skhd you can also consider the following projects:

zsh-autocomplete - 🤖 Real-time type-ahead completion for Zsh. Asynchronous find-as-you-type autocompletion.

hammerspoon - Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

powerlevel10k - A Zsh theme

yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning

fast-syntax-highlighting - (Short name F-Sy-H). Syntax-highlighting for Zshell – fine granularity, number of features and multiple shipped themes.

awesome-mac - Awesome environment for development with mac os.

neofetch - 🖼️ A command-line system information tool written in bash 3.2+

Amethyst - Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.

zsh-autosuggestions - Fish-like autosuggestions for zsh

alt-tab-macos - Windows alt-tab on macOS

docker-zsh-completion - [OUTDATED] zsh completion for docker; use https://github.com/docker/cli instead

simple-bar - A yabai status bar widget for Übersicht