jlongtine / skhd-yabai-config

chunkwm, yabai and skhd configs

My personal chunkwm, yabai and skhd configs

See my dotfiles repo for my other configs

NOTE: yabai requires System Integrity Protection to be disabled to work properly. See here for more information.

Installing for yabai

# Remove previous links
$ rm -f "${HOME}"/.{yabai,skhd}rc

# Install configs
$ git clone https://github.com/tranthaison1231/skhd-yabai-config "${HOME}"/.config/yabai
$ ln -s "${HOME}/.config/yabai/yabai/yabairc" "${HOME}/.yabairc"
$ ln -s "${HOME}/.config/yabai/yabai/skhdrc" "${HOME}/.skhdrc"

Keyboard shortcuts

Chunkwm / Yabai

Changing focus

alt + hjkl

Resize windows

Action	Key Combination
Resize left	lctrl + alt + h
Resize down	lctrl + alt + j
Resize up	lctrl + alt + k
Resize right	lctrl + alt + l
Equalise	lctrl + alt + 0

Move windows

shift + alt + hjkl

Move windows to workspace

Action	Key Combination
Send to last active desktop	shift + alt + m
Send to previous workplace	shift + alt + p
Send to next workplace	shift + alt + n
Send to workplace	shift + alt + num

Rotate windows

Action	Key Combination
Rotate clockwise	shift + alt + r
Rotate anticlockwise	alt + r
Flip on x-axis	shift + alt + x
Flip on y-axis	shift + alt + y

Window actions

Action	Key Combination
Fullscreen	alt + f
Native fullscreen	shift + alt + f
Center window	shift + alt + c

Insertion point

Action	Key Combination
Insert left	shift + lctrl + alt + h
Insert down	shift + lctrl + alt + j
Insert up	shift + lctrl + alt + k
Insert right	shift + lctrl + alt + l
Cancel insert (chunkwm only)	shift + lctrl + alt + x

Misc

Action	Key Combination
Toggle float	shift + alt + space
Toggle gaps	lctrl + alt + g
Restart chunkwm	lctrl + shift + alt + r

Non-chunkwm

Show information

Description

Uses osascript to show information like CPU, memory, battery, etc. The CPU script requires osx-cpu-temp installed. The song script supports iTunes and cmus.

Click here to view the script folder

Note: May have to change the location of the scripts in skhdrc

Key Combination

fn + lalt + num

Screenshots

fn + lalt - 1 : /path/to/script
fn + lalt - 2 : /path/to/script
fn + lalt - 3 : /path/to/script
...

Opening applications

Launch iTerm2

Description

Launches iTerm2 using like in i3-wm.

Click here to view the script

Key Combination

alt + return

alt - return : /path/to/launch/terminal