My personal killer feature is the ability to throw focused windows to a particular space. However, as you can see from the screenshot about Amethyst's settings, the tool provides many more useful shortcuts. It has some features in common with Spectacle, e.g., increasing and decreasing window sizes by shortcuts. Luckily, the next tool can help out.Īmethyst constitutes a tiling window manager for macOS. Spectacle only allows to move windows between visible spaces (i.e., displays) by defining shortcuts for Next Display and Previous Display. I need to move windows also to invisible spaces. Spectacle is brilliant, however, it lacks one feature I really need. I used the shortcuts as you can see in the screenshot above. The following recording gives an impression how Spectacle works.
You have a nice glasses icon in the menu bar to see all window actions along with keyboard shortcuts at a glance. Therefore, you can specify shortcuts in Spectacle's settings dialog for Next Display and Previous Display.īesides moving windows from one visible display to another, I highly use shortcuts to resize windows like Make Larger, Make Smaller, or Left Half.
Spectacle providesĬustomizable shortcuts even for throwing a focused window to another display. In my current project, I have an environment with two external displays in addition to the built-in display of my MacBook. Sophisticated window management by shortcuts is one aspect I have missed from Microsoft Windows when I was working on a project with PCs as development machines. It upgrades macOS in a way that you can use keyboard shortcuts to resize or move focused windows of any app. Spectacle is an awesome tiny tool that allows for changing the size or position of a particular window. If you press the defined hotkey, a clipboard history panel appears and allows you to paste more than the last copied item. You can define a shortcut in the Features section of Alfred's settings. I want to point out one awesome feature and that is Clipboard History. To open a file or folder on your machine, start typing open and Alfred assists you with recommended actions shown in the result list.Īlfred has many more awesome features like snippets or workflows, which I will not cover here. However, you can do more from this input field, e.g., start a google search as you can see from the next screenshot (marked by ⌘5). Most of the time I type the starting characters of an app I want to launch. Of course, you can define a custom key combo in Alfred's settings.Īlfred is very versatile, you just have to fire up the panel with your defined hotkey and you can start typing. The hotkey to open up the launcher panel has been burned into my brain for a long time. 😉Īlfred – Application Launcher on SteroidsĪlfred is an elite application launcher and utility to search and find files on your machine or on the Web. I hope you retire your mouse after reading this post. In this article I want to present my curated list of useful tools to manage windows, displays, and spaces (of Mission Control) without a mouse. As an example, there is no way to move a focused window to another space by keyboard. Out of the box, macOS does not provide many keyboard shortcuts when it comes to window management. I strive for using keyboard shortcuts as much as possible to be more productive while programming. Using a mouse or trackpad is a major distraction and flow-breaker for many development tasks, especially programming.
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