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miro-windows-manager
Intuitive and clever mechanism for moving windows using only arrows, even resizing windows by thirds or quarters! For OSX
I like the miro windows manager plugin: https://github.com/miromannino/miro-windows-manager
It's nice to be able to iterate through the halves/thirds configurations for different cases.
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I utterly love Hammerspoon.
It's fun to combine with qmk [0], which gives you a bunch more options for hotkeys on your keyboard via layers. I've ended up with a layer where half the keyboard is Hammerspoon shortcuts directly to apps (e.g. go to Slack, to Chrome, etc.) and half of it is in-app shortcuts (like putting cmd-number on the home row, for directly addressing chrome tabs).
Between this and one of the tiling window manager-adjacent tools (I use Sizeup), I can do all my OS-level navigation directly. "Oh I want to go to Slack and go to this DM" is a few keystrokes away, and not dependent on what else I was doing.
[0] https://qmk.fm/
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I love hammerspoon. That's it :D
It's lua, so you can get creative with https://fennel-lang.org/
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If you are on macOS but miss Paperwm or niri, etc this is a good compromise thanks to Hammerspoon: https://github.com/mogenson/PaperWM.spoon
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Syncing configs is a pretty solved problem with dotfile repos. I even made a starter repo anyone can fork & use: https://github.com/dbalatero/dotfiles-starter
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Some stuff I've made in Hammerspoon you can use:
- Vim mode everywhere in macOS: https://github.com/dbalatero/VimMode.spoon
- Modifier keys + click/drag to resize or move windows: https://github.com/dbalatero/SkyRocket.spoon
- Show an overlay helper of all your keybinds when you hold modifier keys down: https://github.com/dbalatero/HyperKey.spoon
And my huge pile of random scripts/configs: https://github.com/dbalatero/nixpkgs/tree/main/home/modules/...
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SkyRocket.spoon
Resize and move windows using the mouse and modifier keys. A Hammerspoon clone of Zooom/2 functionality.
Some stuff I've made in Hammerspoon you can use:
- Vim mode everywhere in macOS: https://github.com/dbalatero/VimMode.spoon
- Modifier keys + click/drag to resize or move windows: https://github.com/dbalatero/SkyRocket.spoon
- Show an overlay helper of all your keybinds when you hold modifier keys down: https://github.com/dbalatero/HyperKey.spoon
And my huge pile of random scripts/configs: https://github.com/dbalatero/nixpkgs/tree/main/home/modules/...
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HyperKey.spoon
This library allows you to bind keys to a modifier, and shows you a popup overlay of all your key binds when you hold down the modifier key.
Some stuff I've made in Hammerspoon you can use:
- Vim mode everywhere in macOS: https://github.com/dbalatero/VimMode.spoon
- Modifier keys + click/drag to resize or move windows: https://github.com/dbalatero/SkyRocket.spoon
- Show an overlay helper of all your keybinds when you hold modifier keys down: https://github.com/dbalatero/HyperKey.spoon
And my huge pile of random scripts/configs: https://github.com/dbalatero/nixpkgs/tree/main/home/modules/...
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Some stuff I've made in Hammerspoon you can use:
- Vim mode everywhere in macOS: https://github.com/dbalatero/VimMode.spoon
- Modifier keys + click/drag to resize or move windows: https://github.com/dbalatero/SkyRocket.spoon
- Show an overlay helper of all your keybinds when you hold modifier keys down: https://github.com/dbalatero/HyperKey.spoon
And my huge pile of random scripts/configs: https://github.com/dbalatero/nixpkgs/tree/main/home/modules/...
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It can definitely handle virtual workspaces and global state (if I'm understanding what you mean). I have an Aerospace-like implementation here: https://github.com/mybuddymichael/Helm.spoon
It has several features from Aerospace, but Hammerspoon's window management performance is not nearly as good as Aerospace's (not surprising!).
Overall, I've found it easier to just fork Aerospace and add various extra features to it, so that's what I'm doing now.
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https://github.com/peterklijn/hammerspoon-shiftit
I use ShiftIt (a lovely project, but dead) reimplemented in Hammerspoon. It is very comprehensive.
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Coming from windows to macos, I(i think i used perplexity :P) created a spoon for switching between open windows with 4 finger swipe[0]. Swiping left/right switches between windows, swiping down minimizes all visible windows, swiping up restores them(one by one). Created this repo to backup my config with an llm documenting it.
It uses a swipe gesture detection spoon I found after searching for something similar[1].
[0] https://github.com/abhikul0/hammerspoonConfig
[1] https://github.com/mogenson/Swipe.spoon
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Coming from windows to macos, I(i think i used perplexity :P) created a spoon for switching between open windows with 4 finger swipe[0]. Swiping left/right switches between windows, swiping down minimizes all visible windows, swiping up restores them(one by one). Created this repo to backup my config with an llm documenting it.
It uses a swipe gesture detection spoon I found after searching for something similar[1].
[0] https://github.com/abhikul0/hammerspoonConfig
[1] https://github.com/mogenson/Swipe.spoon
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Glad to see other people using it. Saved my life, was going crazy click-clicking to nab the right window. Now Cmd-1..9 brings to focus a window of my chosen application. (Chrome) In case it helps someone else, myself and Codex iterating over time https://github.com/ljubomirj/dotfiles/blob/main/.hammerspoon....
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xln
0.1 - Q1 2026. DRAFT xln: a credit+collateral netting-account L2 for all EVM and future CBDC jurisdictions—unicast O(1) per hop, link-capped risk, local state, sovereign exits.
I vibecoded a local whisper replacement (free version of superwhisper/mac whisper basically) with claude and hammerspoon: https://github.com/xlnfinance/xln/blob/main/ai/install-voice...
cmd+, and it transcribes on release.
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> Where JS massively wins here, to my mind, is that there is so much tooling available for it
Yeah, I can see that being a big win for development and people already invested in the JS ecosystem.
(I'll stick with Hammerspoon v1 until it breaks and then figure something else out because it'll be a cold day in hell before I subject myself to JS/Node/Typescript again. The trauma runs deep and wide.)
> I'm already not actually writing my v2 config in JS at all, I'm writing it in TypeScript
Will give v2 a go with `lua2js`[0] transliteration and see if that's workable.
[0] https://github.com/xiangnanscu/lua2js
