My Phoenix setup. Powerful, easy to customize, tuned for web development, adds a space switcher.
This configuration uses a remap of the Caps Lock key to something more useful: the Hyper key ⇪ (basically just ctrl + alt + cmd combined into one key) if used in combination with other keys, otherwise it gets mapped to F18, which is used to trigger the space switcher. If you prefer you may skip these remap steps while you try the configuration, but if you usually have many spaces opened I highly recommend you not to miss out the awesome space switcher, for which this hack is a requirement.
- Install Phoenix
- Install Karabiner Elements via its dmg
- Replace Caps Lock with Hyper/F18 using this Karabiner Elements configuration (if the link doesn't work copy and paste this in a browser:
karabiner://karabiner/assets/complex_modifications/import?url=https%3A%2F%2Fraw.githubusercontent.com%2Ffabiospampinato%2Fphoenix%2Fmaster%2Fconfig%2Fkarabiner.json) $ mkdir ~/.config$ cd ~/.config$ git clone git@github.com:fabiospampinato/phoenix.git- Restart Phoenix
- Enjoy!
To disable specific features, just comment out their correspondent require call in phoenix.js.
To tweak some numbers, simply edit constants.js.
Changing the specific shortcut used to trigger an action is pretty trivial.
Don't forget to make a PR if you fixed something or implemented something cool :)
| Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
| ⇪ + ↑ | Move window to the top side |
| ⇪ + → | Move window to the right side |
| ⇪ + ↓ | Move window to the bottom side |
| ⇪ + ← | Move window to the left side |
| Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
| ⇪ + Q | Move window to the top-left corner |
| ⇪ + W | Move window to the top-right corner |
| ⇪ + S | Move window to the bottom-right corner |
| ⇪ + A | Move window to the bottom-left corner |
| Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
| ⇪ + [ | Move window to the 1st half |
| ⇪ + ] | Move window to the 2nd half |
| Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
| ⇪ + 1 | Move window to the 1st column |
| ⇪ + 2 | Move window to the 2nd column |
| ⇪ + 3 | Move window to the 3rd column |
| Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
| ⇪ + X | Center the window |
| ⇪ + shift + X | Center the window and set its dimensions to 900x600 |
| Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
| ⇪ + shift + ↑ | Grow window from the top |
| ⇪ + shift + → | Grow window from the right |
| ⇪ + shift + ↓ | Grow window from the bottom |
| ⇪ + shift + ← | Grow window from the left |
| Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
| ⇪ + space | Toggle window expansion to fill the space |
| ⇪ + shift + space | Toggle window expansion to fullscreen |
| Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
| ⇪ + ` | Focus to or open Noty |
| ⇪ + C | Focus to or open Chrome |
| ⇪ + D | Focus to or open Chrome Developer Tools |
| ⇪ + V | Focus to or open Visual Studio Code |
| ⇪ + F | Focus to or open Finder |
| ⇪ + T | Focus to or open Hyper |
| ⇪ + G | Focus to or open GitTower |
| Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
| ⇪ + I | For each window in the current space show an icon indicating its position |
| Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
| ⇪ + shift + P | Reload Phoenix |
Did you ever close 3+ Chrome windows instead of a single tab by mistake? Fear no more! Now in order to quit an app you have to trigger ⌘Q twice in a short timeframe. Stop wasting 10$ for something so basic.
| Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
| ⌘Q ⌘Q | Quit application |
//TODO: Unfortunately there's no API available for doing this at the moment, that's a shame given that I would have finally found a use for the § key, it looks like 2 S => Side-by-Side :D
| Shortcut | Description |
|---|---|
| ⇪ + § | If there are only 2 windows in the current space put them in split view |
If it gets opened, positionate it to the left side.
If it gets opened, positionate it to the bottom-right corner, and shrink Visual Studio Code's height a bit, so that the console will be visible.
If it gets closed, restore Visual Studio Code's height.
If one of these apps' windows gets opened, positionate it to bottom-left corner.
If it gets opened, positionate it to the right side.
This is the truly great addition to what was already available on the internet.
It combines Phoenix, Alfred and alfred-spaces-workflow into the space switcher macOS deserves but never had, always just a double Hyper (⇪ ⇪) away.
This is how it works:
- It uses Phoenix to compile a list of your spaces
- It tries to guess a name for those spaces, by default that would be the name of the folder opened in the Visual Studio Code instance present in that space
- Refreshes the list and those guessed names when necessary
- Listens for the double Hyper (⇪ ⇪) shortcut
- Opens Alfred and triggers alfred-spaces-workflow
- Which reads the list of spaces compiled with Phoenix and displays it to you
- Select a space to switch to
In order to make this wizardry work you have to open System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Mission Control and bind all Switch to Desktop [NUMBER] actions to ctrl + alt + cmd + shift + [NUMBER]. There are actions up to the 9th desktop, but they may not be shown to you if you have less then 9 desktops currently open.
Limitations:
- There's no API available for retrieving windows from other spaces, therefor other spaces' guessed names won't be refreshed until you visit them. The very first time you load Phoenix you might want to switch the focus to all of them, one by one, to have their names updated.
- There's no API for detecting when a space gets added, deleted or rearranged. In case you do any of these things you may want to reload Phoenix (⇪ + shift + P). This will be worked around in a future commit.
MIT © Fabio Spampinato