KHkhirviko·Aug 6, 2016Submission
Show HN: Phoenix 2.3 – a macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript
1 points · Open discussionkasper
phoenix
Objective-C2015–2024
kasper / phoenix
phoenix
A lightweight macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript
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37Mentions
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What it is
A lightweight macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript
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Observed mentions: 2015-11-28 20:24:15 UTC to 2024-12-13 17:42:18 UTC.
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 0 | 5 |
What Hacker News says
7 sourcesThat's right. Sdegutis built Zephyros (Ruby OSX automation, also other Lang support), then Phoenix (JavaScript OSX Automation), then Hydra (Lua based) which became Mjolnir, which is forked to Hammerspoon.
Phoneix lives on as Phoenix 2.2 https://github.com/kasper/phoenix
In Hammerspoon – Powerful automation of OS X with LuaPhoenix: Lightweight macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript
3 points · Open discussionShow HN: Phoenix 2.2 – a macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript
7 points · Open discussionShow HN: Phoenix 2.1 – a OS X window manager scriptable with JavaScript
This release includes some exiting new and requested features: including support for Spaces, creating timers to achieve delays or timed events and support for running Phoenix completely in the background! We also added some nice additions to the API, made various other improvements and fixed a few annoying bugs.
Phoenix is a lightweight OS X window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript. You can also easily use languages which compile to JavaScript such as CoffeeScript. Phoenix aims for efficiency and a very small footprint. If you like the idea of scripting your own window or app management toolkit with JavaScript, Phoenix is probably going to give you the things you want. With Phoenix you can bind keyboard shortcuts and system events, and use these to interact with OS X.
1.) highly customisable, write your own configuration 2.) bind
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keyboard shortcuts and system events to your callback functions 3.) control and interact with your screens, spaces, mouse, apps and windows 4.) log messages, deliver notifications or display messages as modals and 5.) run external commands
Take a look! https://github.com/kasper/phoenix/
Have you tried Phoenix?
https://github.com/kasper/phoenix
I realize it's not aiming for command-line manipulation, but I've found it helpful for doing keyboard-driven resizing and grid layouts just the way I want.
In Window Manipulation UtilitiesI think many mac users here would find Phoenix[1] to be a decent solution. I've shared my config as a gist[2], which is somewhat inspired by (a subset of) the features of Optimal Layout[3], which I used for years before recently switching to Phoenix. My config code is not particularly DRY and almost certainly has memory leaks. Mainly, I wanted to get something working, the way I wanted. I'll clean it up... at some point.
[1] https://github.com/kasper/phoenix
[&] https://github.com/kasper/phoenix/wiki#examples
[2] https://gist.github.com/michaelsbradleyjr/e641907e3b1576fe34...
[3] http://most-advantageous.com/optimal-layout/
In Using Xmonad on OS X