skhd

Simple hotkey daemon for macOS (by koekeishiya)

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  • Ask HN: What macOS apps/programs do you use daily and recommend?
    38 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jun 2024
  • 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.
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koekeishiya/skhd is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of skhd is C.


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