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I've been looking for a utility that will let me look at a window on another monitor, see a hint, focus it. It seems as though this utility only works within wi

I've been looking for a utility that will let me look at a window on another monitor, see a hint, focus it. It seems as though this utility only works within windows rather than between them though, if I have understood the sales pitch correctly. I'm coming to MacOS from a Linux tiling WM. I'm so used to being able to jump between monitors and switch windows directionally without having to grab the mouse. Alt-tab / window search workflows are a non-starter: I can see the window I want to focus, I shouldn't have to pick it out of a menu or have to type the window title. Does anyone know of any utilities that might fit the bill?

sixhobbits 3y ago
not exactly what you want but I use alfred hotkeys tied to "open" actions for specific applications. If the app is already open it activates it instead so I have shortcuts for safari, firefox, slack etc.
galoisscobi 3y ago
I also came from a TWM (i3) to macOS. It took a while to get to a good solution but I have it down now with yabai and skhd for window management. For launching apps, I wrote something around the launchAppOrFocus API in hammerspoon, assigning hot keys to my commonly used apps. I also have a rule set in yabai that launches certain apps in set desktop spaces. I use spotlight search for the apps I don’t open so frequently but having something closer to dmenu (or a fuzzy find app picker) would be nice.
sleepybrett 3y ago
I have used phoenix for some functionality in the general area https://github.com/kasper/phoenix https://github.com/kasper/phoenix
rifty 3y ago
Yabai[1] looks like it supports directional focus movement.[2] You could also check out hammerspoon[3] and see if there are any sample configurations that could do directional focus.[4] [1]: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai [2]: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/wiki/Commands#focus-window https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/wiki/Commands#focus-win... [3]: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon [4]: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/wiki/Sample-Configurations https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/wiki/Sample-Confi...
meatjuice 3y ago
I use two applications to do something like that. https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos

sixhobbits 3y ago

not exactly what you want but I use alfred hotkeys tied to "open" actions for specific applications. If the app is already open it activates it instead so I have shortcuts for safari, firefox, slack etc.

galoisscobi 3y ago

I also came from a TWM (i3) to macOS. It took a while to get to a good solution but I have it down now with yabai and skhd for window management. For launching apps, I wrote something around the launchAppOrFocus API in hammerspoon, assigning hot keys to my commonly used apps. I also have a rule set in yabai that launches certain apps in set desktop spaces. I use spotlight search for the apps I don’t open so frequently but having something closer to dmenu (or a fuzzy find app picker) would be nice.

sleepybrett 3y ago

I have used phoenix for some functionality in the general area https://github.com/kasper/phoenix https://github.com/kasper/phoenix

rifty 3y ago

Yabai[1] looks like it supports directional focus movement.[2] You could also check out hammerspoon[3] and see if there are any sample configurations that could do directional focus.[4] [1]: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai [2]: https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/wiki/Commands#focus-window https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai/wiki/Commands#focus-win... [3]: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon [4]: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/wiki/Sample-Configurations https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/wiki/Sample-Confi...

meatjuice 3y ago

I use two applications to do something like that. https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos https://github.com/lwouis/alt-tab-macos