🪴 Emerald

About Emerald

Emerald is a Tiling Window Manager for macOS built with the SwiftUI framework. It attempts to provide a user-friendly experience for customizing Yabai & SKHD. The project is currently inactive.

⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts

• Switch between Floating, Tiling, and Stacking modes
• Focus, Move, Resize
• Toggle Padding / Gaps
• Split
• Balance

⚙️ Window Modifications

• Change window transparency
• Toggle shadows (on/off/floating)
• Enable window borders
• Toggle floating windows to stick ontop

🖱 Mouse Features

• Swap or Stack windows while holding a modifier key
• Switch between default, autofocus & autoraise modes
• Toggle mouse-follows-focus

🪄 Shortcut Examples

Focus

The following are all examples of what can be achieved using Emerald, by Yabai for the tiling window manager functionality and SKHD as the keyboard shortcut dameon.

control + arrowkey

Move

control + option + arrowkey

Resize

control + option + command + arrowkey

Split

control + option + x

Balance

control + option + x

Gaps

control + option + p

🙏 Thank You

Special thanks to the developers of Yabai & SKHD.