Hammerspoon – Lua-based powerful tool automation of macOS

Post by rufugee » Mon, Dec 13, 2021, 6:49 PM UTC

lycopodiopsida wrote: post #64

cmsj wrote: post #21

Since we've hit the front page of HN again, I've just released Hammerspoon 0.9.92, which contains a few fixes and some additions, but mostly refactored a significant amount of internal project structure to allow our build system to be replaced with something that isn't 5 years old and terrible. As a result, it's possible that something broke which we didn't find in our internal testing. Please file GitHub issues :) H…

Thank you very much for your work! I am slowly oscillating between Keyboard Maestro and Hammerspoon, as well as between Alfred and Launchbar, but currently I am again in the Hammerspoon/Launchbar side of the pool :) One side I've noticed Hammesrpoon is a bit difficult to work with is debugging it can be done with logging to the console, but is not very convenient. Are there plans to introduce something more advanced…

Post by Graziano_M » Mon, Dec 13, 2021, 7:44 PM UTC

Post by hirvi74 » Mon, Dec 13, 2021, 7:52 PM UTC

eddyg wrote: post #46

Syzygies wrote: post #10

I fell briefly in love with Hammerspoon, but stopped using it. My MacOS automation is now my QMK keyboard calling Alfred workflows; I use Yabai for window management. I admire Lua, but ran into some sharp edges learning to program in it. Still, one can get up to speed quickly if one knows other scripting languages. Hammerspoon window management was deathly slow. Yabai is close to instantaneous.

Doesn’t Yabai require disabling SIP?

Post by kbd » Mon, Dec 13, 2021, 8:42 PM UTC

VTimofeenko wrote: post #72

kbd wrote: post #38

If anyone cares, here's my config: https://github.com/kbd/setup/blob/master/HOME/.hammerspoon/i... It shows off a tiny bit of what you can do with Hammerspoon: - window and app management - keyboard shortcuts for common apps (eg. hyper+T for text editor, hyper+B for browser, hyper+S for shell) - if you can code a tiny bit of Lua there's no need for apps like Spectacle, Rectangle, Moom, etc. because it's easy to posit…

Thank you so much for your sample config. I recently got a Macbook for work, and coming back to non-tiling wm has been a challenge, especially with multiple monitors. With this config I am finally back to my comfortable meta+{h,l} tiling, dedicated shortcuts for applications and easy way to move application between monitors. And it took less than 10 minutes. Excellent way to start a Monday.

Post by beaugunderson » Mon, Dec 13, 2021, 9:33 PM UTC

yoyojojofosho wrote: post #55

beaugunderson wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another fun thing you can do is install Hammerspoon as your URL handler, and make certain URLs open in different Chrome profiles--any work websites open in my work Chrome profile, websites related to a game I play opens in a Chrome profile specific to that, and anything else opens up in a personal Chrome profile. I've also setup cmd+shift+1/2/3 to brings the aforementioned profiles into the foreground, so e.g. cmd+sh…

For anyone else trying to determine how to switch between Chrome profiles on macOS, I found a superuser post [0] In short you can run: open -a "Google Chrome" --args --profile-directory=$NAME where $NAME for your current Chrome profile can be found by looking at Profile Path in chrome://version. The last directory in Profile Path is $NAME. The default $NAME is "Default" and another profile could be "Profile 5". [0] h…

    -- open Chrome Canary with a specific named Profile
    function canaryWithProfile(profile, url)
      local t = hs.task.new("/Applications/Google Chrome Canary.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome Canary",
      nil,
      function() return false end,
      { "--profile-directory=" .. profile, url })
      t:start()
    end

    -- open Chrome with a specific named Profile
    function chromeWithProfile(profile, url)
      local t = hs.task.new("/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome",
      nil,
      function() return false end,
      { "--profile-directory=" .. profile, url })
      t:start()
    end