Hammerspoon(github.com/Hammerspoon)
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- zdw 35 minutes agoI fake a tiling window manager on Mac with Hammerspoon, resizing to fit in specific corners/sizes:
And to throw windows to other monitors:-- resize based on ratios function ratioResize(xr, yr, wr, hr) return function () local win = hs.window.focusedWindow() win:moveToUnit({x=xr,y=yr,w=wr,h=hr}) end end -- 4 corners, different sizes hs.hotkey.bind({"cmd", "ctrl"}, "w", ratioResize(0, 0, 2/5, 2/3)) hs.hotkey.bind({"cmd", "ctrl"}, "e", ratioResize(2/5, 0, 3/5, 2/3)) hs.hotkey.bind({"cmd", "ctrl"}, "s", ratioResize(0, 2/3, 2/5, 1/3)) hs.hotkey.bind({"cmd", "ctrl"}, "d", ratioResize(2/5, 2/3, 3/5, 1/3))-- send to next screen hs.hotkey.bind({"cmd", "ctrl"}, ";", function() local win = hs.window.focusedWindow() local screen = win:screen() local next_screen = screen:next() win:moveToScreen(next_screen) end)[-]- comboy 7 minutes agoI highly recommend Aerospace[1], went through a few approaches, I cared about not completely compromising security either, it works really well if you come from something like i3
- alexfortin 19 minutes agoI use it to enable/disable the wifi when I disconnec/connect the macbook to a specific usb hub with ethernet connection:
local usbWatcher = hs.usb.watcher.new(function(device) if device.productName == "EMEET SmartCam C960" then if device.eventType == "added" then hs.execute("networksetup -setairportpower en0 off") hs.notify.new({title="Wi-Fi", informativeText="Disabled (USB device connected)"}):send() elseif device.eventType == "removed" then hs.execute("networksetup -setairportpower en0 on") hs.notify.new({title="Wi-Fi", informativeText="Re-enabled (USB device removed)"}):send() end end end) usbWatcher:start() - incanus77 57 minutes agoHammerspoon is the glue that holds my Mac together. For a starter list of things to do with this app, a partial list of the things that I'm using it for:
- Dumping all open Safari tabs to an Obsidian doc - Adding 'hyper' (Ctrl-Opt-Cmd) keybinds to pop a new window for: - Safari - Finder - Terminal (Ghostty) - VS Code - Notes - Editing Hammerspoon/AeroSpace/Sketchybar config - Reloading Hammerspoon config - Reloading Sketchybar - Quitting all Dock apps except Finder - Screen lock - System sleep - Opening front Finder folder in VS Code - Opening front Safari URL on Archive.today - Showing front Safari window tab count - Showing front app bundle ID - Posting notification about current Music track - Controlling my Logi Litra light (various color temps/brightnesses) - Starting/stopping a client work timer - Tying it to AeroSpace for: - Pushing a window to another monitor - Performing a two-up window layout - Swapping those two windows - Closing all other workspace windows - Gathering all windows to first workspace - Ensuring some background apps stay running if they crash - Prompting to unmount disk images if trashed - Binding into Skim to jump to specific sections of spec PDFs using terse Markdown URLs - juancn 29 minutes agoI use it to hide Zoom's screen sharing controls so they don't come back when pressing Esc:
-- Hide Zoom's "share" windows so it doesn't come back on ESC keypress local zoomWindow = nil local originalFrame = nil hs.hotkey.bind({"cmd", "ctrl", "alt"}, "H", function() print("> trying to hide zoom") if not zoomWindow then print("> looking for window") zoomWindow = hs.window.find("zoom share statusbar window") end if zoomWindow then print("> found window") if originalFrame then print("> restoring") zoomWindow:setFrame(originalFrame) originalFrame = nil zoomWindow = nil else print("> hiding") originalFrame = zoomWindow:frame() local screen = zoomWindow:screen() local frame = zoomWindow:frame() frame.x = screen:frame().w + 99000 frame.y = screen:frame().h + 99000 zoomWindow:setFrame(frame) end else print("> window not found") end end) - overflowy 27 minutes agoI use this to remap app keys:
local appHotkeys = {} local function remapAppHotkey(appName, fromMods, fromKey, toMods, toKey, delay) if not appHotkeys[appName] then appHotkeys[appName] = {} end local hotkey = hs.hotkey.new(fromMods, fromKey, function() hs.eventtap.keyStroke(toMods, toKey, delay or 0) end) table.insert(appHotkeys[appName], hotkey) end local appWatcher = hs.application.watcher.new(function(appName, eventType) local hotkeys = appHotkeys[appName] if not hotkeys then return end for _, hotkey in ipairs(hotkeys) do if eventType == hs.application.watcher.activated then hotkey:enable() elseif eventType == hs.application.watcher.deactivated then hotkey:disable() end end end) appWatcher:start() -- Remap app hotkeys remapAppHotkey("Finder", { "cmd" }, "q", { "cmd" }, "w", 0.5) ... etc ... - pjm331 2 hours agohere is my entire config
i've tried all of the other fancy window managers and for me nothing has ever beat the ease of use of jusths.hotkey.bind({"ctrl"}, "D", function() hs.grid.show() end)(1) ctrl-d to see the grid, (2) type the letter where you want the top left corner of your window to be, (3) type the letter where you want the bottom right corner to be
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[-]- hrmtst93837 17 minutes agoNeat until you need to sync configs or keep multiple machines in harmony, at which point dotfile headaches stack up with Hammerspoon and Lua. Adding complex logic like window rules, app-specific behavior, or handling monitor changes strips away some of that hotkey simplicity and leads to endless tweaking. Still, for avoiding the mouse, it's one of the few flexible options left on macOS that doesn't feel ancient. Tradeoffs everywhere but nowhere else really compares in control.
- elAhmo 48 minutes agoThis is amazing! I have a slightly more elaborate setup that allows me to resize from one or another side, similar to what Apple added recently but with more flexibility, but this is super interesting, thanks for sharing!
- stackghost 1 hour agoNot that I insert EOFs very often, but does that conflict with CTRL+D in the terminal?[-]
- xyzzy_plugh 1 hour agoI use EOF all the time to end terminal sessions.[-]
- commandertso 24 minutes agoGreat handle, btw.
- pjm331 36 minutes agoyeah the CTRL+D definitely gives me problems from time to time but thus far i have been too lazy to fix it
- jjmiv 1 hour agois there a particular reason this was shared?
otherwise I'm slowly working on a Spoon that figures out if there is an active meeting in Zoom, Teams, Huddle, Google Meet and will allow for muting, video enable/disable and screen sharing etc
- swiftcoder 18 minutes agoI always confuse "hammerspoon" and "rowhammer"
- weitzj 42 minutes agoI love hammerspoon. That's it :D
It's lua, so you can get creative with https://fennel-lang.org/
- jmcguckin 34 minutes agoI use it to give me focus-follows-mouse and to have a large circle surrounding the mouse when i move it, to aid finding it.
- golem14 2 hours agoHas anyone worked on making a config replicating aerospace?
Hammerspoon seems like a superset and it’s probably better to just have one, instead of two tools warring about who gets the keypresses?
[-]- hirvi74 38 minutes agoWhat features are you trying to replicate from Aerospace?[-]
- golem14 23 minutes agoWell, a tiling window and workspace manager. But as I am typing this, I’m realizing they hammerspoon can probably do some of the window placement, but maybe not handling workspaces and global state.
I was hoping I could be lazy and ask, and a not-lazy person could give a ready made answer :)
- mwagstaff 46 minutes agoCan't live without Hammerspoon on Mac.
Can't live without AutoHotkey on Windows.
Thanks to everyone who contributed to both!
- trjordan 1 hour agoI 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/
- john-tells-all 2 hours agoI'd love to have a global "toggle Teams mute" button.[-]
- roxolotl 17 minutes ago```
hs.loadSpoon("MicMute")
binding = { toggle = { {"ctrl", "alt"}, "m" } }
spoon.MicMute:bindHotkeys(binding)
```
You'll have to add the MicMute spoon which just mean downloading the zip here, unzipping, and opening the .spoon. https://www.hammerspoon.org/Spoons/MicMute.html
- hirvi74 36 minutes agoWhat do you mean? Like muting the entire application so no sound comes from Teams or muting yourself while on a call? For the latter, I thought 'Option + Space' worked (or used to)?
- hmokiguess 36 minutes agowhat's your favourite spoon?
- hirvi74 44 minutes agoI have fond memories of this app. However, after many years, I have moved on. I am in the process of writing my own replacement for some of the various use cases that Hammerspoon once provided me. Though, Hammerspoon will always be a source of great inspiration.
- rolymath 1 hour agoIs paperwm jittery for everyone?