Install

brew install yannpom/repo/grid

Or download from GitHub releases

Grid v0.2

Grid is a macOS window managment app that let you bind custom shortcut to custom window positions via an easy to copy/edit/share YAML file.

Grid UI is very minimalist, it only has a menu in the status bar:

To get logs, run it form the command line: /Applications/Grid.app/Contents/MacOS/Grid

YAML configuration file

A default configuration file is created in ~/.grid.yaml if it does not exists.

The default config is a kind of 9×9 grid with a larger center column (48%). But of course you can change/customize everything, and share your config file in a GitHub issue if you want.

Config is reloaded on file change. It makes it easy to edit/save/test your changes in seconds.

Basic Example

Config file: ~/.grid.yaml

actions:
  - key: "CMD_ALT_LEFTARROW" # combination of (CMD, ALT, CTRL) + 1 key
    name: "Center Left"      # optional
    positions:
      - [.18, 0, .32, 1]     # x=18%, y=0, width=32%, height=100%
      - [.10, 0, .40, 1]     # Repeated keypress loop through all positions
      - [0, 0, .50, 1]

  - key: ...

Advanced Example

define:
  - &x1 0.26    # YAML variables can be defined to be reused multiple times
  - &x2 0.74
  
  - &w0 0.26
  - &w1 0.48
  - &w2 0.26
  
  - &y1 0.33
  - &y2 0.50
  - &y3 0.66

  - &h1 0.33
  - &h2 0.5
  - &h3 0.66

actions:
  # Multiple hotkey for the same action
  # (I like to use the keypad but I need backup hotkey on laptop keyboard)
  - key: ["CMD_ALT_KEYPAD4", "CMD_ALT_H"]
    name: "Left"
    positions:
      - [0, *y1, *w0, *h1]    # use of variables
      - [0, .05, *w0, .90]

  - key: "CMD_ALT_1"
    name: "Scenario #1"
    # a 'scenario' moves multiple windows at the same time
    scenario:
    # based on the App Bundle Identifier:
      - app: 'com.apple.finder'
        # 5th position argument is the display number
        # 0 = screen with focus
        # 1 = main screen (laptop)
        # 2 = 1st external screen
        position: [0.0000, 0.0000, 0.5000, 0.4994, 1]
      - app: 'com.spotify.client'
        position: [0.0000, 0.0000, 0.2599, 0.3293, 2]

Copy position from actual window

Focus on a window, then click on “Copy current window info”:

A YAML snippet will get to your paperboard:

- app: 'com.sublimetext.3'
  position: [0.1799, 0.0000, 0.3198, 1.0000, 1]

Copy paste the whole block to your config file, or only the position array, as you need.

Keylist

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Accessibility permission

You need to grand ccessibility permission in System Preferences / Security & Privacy / Accessibility / Check Grid.app

GitHub

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