![]() Hotkeys are defined in a text file through a simple DSL. If you weren’t challenged by the process of using the terminal, or are experienced already, you can dig into configuration of yabai + skhd yourself – github has great documentation on each one, and it’s pretty simple, I believe your dotfiles are going to be ~/.yabairc and ~/.skhdrc.Skhd is a simple hotkey daemon for macOS that focuses on responsiveness and performance. You may notice a difference in your computer, or you may not. So, here at this point you should have properly installed yabai and skhd. The terminal, throughout this process, may prompt you at any point to install dependencies: go ahead and select yes, or allow. Next, in order to install skhd, we’ll paste the following lines into terminal, then hit enter on each one individually (one line at a time): Check the box next to yabai to allow accessibility permissions. It will prompt you to allow yabai accessibility permissions. Then, start yabai by pasting the following line in terminal, without quotes, and hitting enter: Click the lock icon at the bottom and enter your password to allow changes to the list. Open System Preferences.app and navigate to Security & Privacy, then Privacy, then Accessibility. Once that’s complete, you’ll need to get yabai, do so by pasting the following line into your terminal, then hitting enter. Open terminal (or iTerm2, or kitty, or whatever) and install homebrew, the missing package manager for macOS, by pasting the following line and hitting enter. I’ll start with the steps detailed in the previous post: With skhd, you can create your own keyboard shortcuts, faster, and with much more granular flexibility than any other option I’m aware of.Īssuming you want to be a sexy nerd, a more efficient user, or both, let’s jump into the installation process of yabai + skhd. It’s very simple, and it allows you to add more actions to your keyboard – for example, if you hit command + C on a mac, it copies the selected text. Skhd, if you couldn’t gather already, is a background process, or “daemon”, that runs behind the scenes on your computer. You can’t do it alone, though – How are you supposed to resize a window? To move the cursor from the focused window to a different application? To move a window to a new desktop space? Well, keyboard shortcuts seem to be the obvious answer here, but yabai doesn’t do this out of the box, however the developer of yabai has thought ahead for us, and created (with the public’s help) a lovely simple keyboard hotkey daemon, referred to as it’s abbreviation “ skhd“. Your tips via CashApp, Venmo, or Paypal are appreciated! Receipts will come from ISIPP. The Internet Patrol is completely free, and reader-supported. ![]() You would (and will) be surprised how much of a difference this makes. The benefits are numerous: faster reply times, less time spent altering your layout, and even just simply looking cool and badass, like a “sexy nerd”, as my girlfriend says.īasically, you end up spending a lot less time reaching for your mouse, and using your mouse to manipulate your computer. yabai will automatically organize, resize, collapse, hide, and manage all open windows and desktop spaces on your computer. Three open windows? You guessed it, each one will take up a third of your screen. One window will take up your full screen, two? Each will take 50% of the screen, one on each side. ![]() TL DR: With a tiling WM, instead of new windows popping up anywhere, all open windows will be resized to occupy all available space on the screen. Paraphrasing from wiki, ‘a tiling window manager is a computer program that deals with organization of the screen into mutually non-overlapping frames, or “tiles”, as opposed to the more common approach of coordinate-based stacking of overlapping objects (windows) that tries to fully emulate the desktop metaphor’.
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