jigish/slate

Features

• macOS Workspace Managers - Acts as a keyboard-driven window manager for resizing and positioning application windows specifically on macOS.
• Keyboard-Driven Window Orchestration - Provides a keyboard-driven system for moving and resizing application windows using custom shortcuts and grid overlays.
• Positioning and Resizing - Provides keyboard-driven capabilities for programmatically setting window screen coordinates and dimensions.
• Workspace Layout Automations - Defines and restores specific arrangements of multiple applications to create consistent, task-based workspaces.
• JavaScript-Configurable Automation Frameworks - Uses a JavaScript scripting API to define complex window manipulation logic and system event callbacks.
• Application Scripting APIs - Provides a scripting API using JavaScript to implement dynamic and complex window management logic.
• Custom Key Action Bindings - Binds custom keystrokes and modal sequences to window operations, shell commands, and action chains.
• Window - Defines named sets of window positions and sizes for specific applications to activate simultaneously.
• Configuration Scripts - Uses an executed JavaScript script to define dynamic application behavior, custom functions, and keyboard mappings.
• Event-Driven Triggers - Executes window operations and shell commands automatically in response to global keyboard shortcuts and system events.
• Grid Layout Managers - Uses a visual grid overlay to manually resize and move windows into aligned cells.
• Tiling Window Managers - Organizes application windows into predefined grids and spatial configurations via keystroke bindings.
• Native macOS API Bridges - Provides native bridges to macOS system APIs for direct manipulation of window positions and screen states.
• Window Manipulations - Creates named window manipulation actions using parameters or configuration strings for programmatic control.
• Keyboard-to-Action Mappings - Maps keyboard shortcuts to window operations or JavaScript functions, including repeat-on-hold behavior.
• Window Arrangement Snapshots - Captures and stores coordinate and dimension data of all open windows to restore spatial arrangements.
• Window Geometry Snapshots - Captures the current state of all window positions and sizes to restore them later as a named snapshot.
• Ordered Key Sequences - Intercepts buffered keystroke sequences to trigger complex window operations without conflicting with system shortcuts.
• Global Event Listeners - Registers callback functions that execute automatically in response to specific system or application events.
• Shell Command Execution - Runs external terminal commands via keyboard shortcuts with support for blocking execution and working directories.
• Layout Automation - Automatically triggers specific layouts or snapshots when monitor counts or resolutions change.
• Multi-Monitor Window Management - Provides capabilities to automatically adjust window layouts and positions based on the number of connected screens.
• Window Layout Grids - Implements a virtual spatial grid to calculate precise window placements using screen percentages and pixel coordinates.
• Spatial Window Managers - Arranges multiple windows into predefined spatial configurations based on window titles or order.
• Child Process Execution - Spawns and manages external shell commands as child processes with configurable working directories.
• Window Visibility Controllers - Provides utilities to hide, show, or toggle the visibility of specific applications or all open windows.
• Application Switchers - Implements a customizable alternative to the default system application switcher.
• Keyboard Navigation - Enables switching focus between windows using directional keys or temporary character-based hinting labels.
• Window Hinting Overlays - Displays temporary character overlays on all windows to enable quick focusing via a single key press.
• Directional Focus Switching - Enables changing the active window based on its relative screen position or the application name.

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