Global Configs

Name	Type	Behavior
defaultToCurrentScreen	Boolean	Default: false. true causes all bindings to default to the current screen if the screen the reference does not exist. false causes only bindings that do not specify a screen to default to the current screen while bindings that reference screens that do not exist simply do nothing.
nudgePercentOf	String	Default: windowSize. Will use this value for the nudge percent calculation. Possible values are windowSize and screenSize.
resizePercentOf	String	Default: windowSize. Will use this value for the resize percent calculation. Possible values are windowSize and screenSize.
repeatOnHoldOps	String	Default: resize,nudge. Comma separated list of operations that should repeat when the hotkey is held.
secondsBeforeRepeat	Number	Default: 0.4. The number of seconds before repeating starts (for ops in repeatOnHoldOps)
secondsBetweenRepeat	Number	Default: 0.1. The number of seconds between repeats (for ops in repeatOnHoldOps)
checkDefaultsOnLoad	Boolean	Default: false. true causes the default directives to be checked/triggered after any configuration load
focusCheckWidth	Integer	Default: 100. The width (in pixels) of the rectangle used to check directions in the focus directive. Only used for right, left, up, above, down, and below directions. The larger this is, the futher away focus will check for adjacent windows. Consequently, the larger this is, the more irritatingly stupid focus can be.
focusCheckWidthMax	Integer	Default: 100. If set to anything above focusCheckWidth, the focus option will keep expanding the rectangle used to check directions by focusCheckWidth if it does not find a window until it either finds a window or the width of the rectangle is greater than focusCheckWidthMax
focusPreferSameApp	Boolean	Default: true. When this is true, the focus operation will always choose a window in the same app to focus if it exists in the check width regardless of intersection size. When this is false, focus will treat all application windows the same and choose the largest intersection size
orderScreensLeftToRight	Boolean	Default: true. When this is true, monitors will be ordered from left to right by X coordinate (if two X coordiates are the same, then the lowest Y coordinate will be first). When this is false, screens will be ordered according to the internal Mac OS X ordering which changes depending on which screen was plugged in first. If this is false, you can force ordering of screens by prefixing the screen ID with ordered:
windowHintsBackgroundColor	Semicolon Separated Array of Floats	Default: 50;53;58;0.9. The background color for Window Hints as an array in the form Red;Green;Blue;Alpha where Red, Green, and Blue are numbers between 0.0 and 255.0 and Alpha is a number between 0.0 and 1.0
windowHintsWidth	Expression	Default: 100. The width of the Window Hints ovelay in pixels. Please see the "Expressions" section above more information on expressions.
windowHintsHeight	Expression	Default: 100. The height of the Window Hints overlay in pixels. Please see the "Expressions" section above more information on expressions.
windowHintsFontColor	Semicolon Separated Array of Floats	Default: 255;255;255;1.0. The font color for Window Hints as an array in the form Red;Green;Blue;Alpha where Red, Green, and Blue are numbers between 0.0 and 255.0 and Alpha is a number between 0.0 and 1.0
windowHintsFontName	String	Default: Helvetica. The name of the Window Hints font
windowHintsFontSize	Integer	Default: 40. The size of the Window Hints font
windowHintsDuration	Number	Default: 3. The number of seconds that Window Hints will display for
windowHintsRoundedCornerSize	Integer	Default: 5. The size of the rounded corners of the Window Hints. Set this to 0 if you do not want rounded corners
windowHintsIgnoreHiddenWindows	Boolean	Default: true. If this is set to true, window hints will not show for windows that are hidden. Hints will show for all windows if this is false. A window is hidden if the window under the point at the center of where the hint overlay would show is not the window in question.
windowHintsTopLeftX	Semicolon Separated Array of Expressions	Default: (windowSizeX/2)-(windowHintsWidth/2);0. The X offset for window hints from the window's top left point (right is positive, left is negative). If windowHintsIgnoreHiddenWindows is set to true, the hint operation will try each expression in this array (using the Y coordinate from the same index in windowHintsTopLeftY) sequetially to see if it represents a point that is visible. The hint operation will display a hint at the first visible point. Note that the number of elements in this array must equal the number of elements in windowHintsTopLeftY or all hint bindings will fail validation.
windowHintsTopLeftY	Semicolon Separated Array of Expressions	Default: (windowSizeY/2)-(windowHintsHeight/2);0. The Y offset for window hints from the window's top left point (down is positive, up is negative). If windowHintsIgnoreHiddenWindows is set to true, the hint operation will try each expression in this array (using the X coordinate from the same index in windowHintsTopLeftX) sequetially to see if it represents a point that is visible. The hint operation will display a hint at the first visible point. Note that the number of elements in this array must equal the number of elements in windowHintsTopLeftX or all hint bindings will fail validation.
windowHintsOrder	none, persist, leftToRight, or rightToLeft	Default: leftToRight. Specifies the ordering of windows for Window Hints. If none, hints will be seemingly randomly ordered. If persist, hints will be randomly ordered but will remain the same throughout the life of the window (Currently does not work if windows have the same title). If leftToRight, hints will be ordered from the left of the screen to the right of the screen. If rightToLeft, hints will be ordered from the right of the screen to the left of the screen
windowHintsShowIcons	Boolean	Default: false. If true, the application's icon will be shown as a background for the letter instead of the rectangle. This is useful if windowHintsIgnoreHiddenWindows is false so that you can know which application a hint for a hidden window belongs to.
windowHintsSpread	Boolean	Default: false. If true, hints in the same place will be spread out vertically. This is useful if windowHintsIgnoreHiddenWindows is false so that multiple windows with the same center will have distinct hints.
windowHintsSpreadSearchWidth	Number	Default: 40. The width in pixels of the search box for hint collisions. Other hints within this box will be spread down.
windowHintsSpreadSearchHeight	Number	Default: 40. The height in pixels of the search box for hint collisions. Other hints within this box will be spread down.
windowHintsSpreadPadding	Number	Default: 20. The pading between hint boxes which have been spread downwards.
switchIconSize	Number	Default: 100. The size of the application icons for the switch operation
switchIconPadding	Number	Default: 5. The padding around the application icons for the switch operation
switchBackgroundColor	Semicolon Separated Array of Floats	Default: 50;53;58;0.3. The background color for the switch operation as an array in the form Red;Green;Blue;Alpha where Red, Green, and Blue are numbers between 0.0 and 255.0 and Alpha is a number between 0.0 and 1.0
switchSelectedBackgroundColor	Semicolon Separated Array of Floats	Default: 50;53;58;0.9. The selected background color for the switch operation as an array in the form Red;Green;Blue;Alpha where Red, Green, and Blue are numbers between 0.0 and 255.0 and Alpha is a number between 0.0 and 1.0
switchSelectedBorderColor	Semicolon Separated Array of Floats	Default: 230;230;230;0.9. The selected border color for the switch operation as an array in the form Red;Green;Blue;Alpha where Red, Green, and Blue are numbers between 0.0 and 255.0 and Alpha is a number between 0.0 and 1.0
switchSelectedBorderSize	Number	Default: 2. The size of the selected border of the switch operation. Set this to 0 if you do not a border
switchRoundedCornerSize	Number	Default: 5. The size of the rounded corners of the switch operation. Set this to 0 if you do not want rounded corners
switchOrientation	horiztonal or vertical	Default: horizontal. Which direction to grow the application switcher.
switchSecondsBeforeRepeat	Number	Default: 0.4. The number of seconds before repeating starts for forward/back keypresses for the switch operation
switchSecondsBetweenRepeat	Number	Default: 0.05. The number of seconds between repeating the forward/back keypresses for the switch operation.
switchStopRepeatAtEdge	Boolean	Default: true. If true, when holding down the switch operation forward/back keys repeats will trigger until the selected app reaches the end/beginning of the list. If false, holding down the switch operation forward/back keys will cycle through the app list without stopping
switchOnlyFocusMainWindow	Boolean	Default: true. If true, the switch operation will only bring the main window of the selected app forward. If false, the switch operation will work similar to the default application switcher and bring all windows of the selected app forward.
switchShowTitles	Boolean	Default: false. If true, the switch operation will show the title of the items in the list as well.
switchFontColor	Semicolon Separated Array of Floats	Default: 255;255;255;1.0. The font color for the switch operation as an array in the form Red;Green;Blue;Alpha where Red, Green, and Blue are numbers between 0.0 and 255.0 and Alpha is a number between 0.0 and 1.0
switchFontName	String	Default: Helvetica. The name of the switch operation title font
switchFontSize	Number	Default: 14. The size of the switch operation font
switchType	app or window	Default: app. [UNIMPLEMENTED - coming in 1.1] If app, the switch operation will present a list of applications ordered by last focus. If window the switch operation will present a list of windows ordered by last focus.
switchSelectedPadding	Number	Default: 10. The size of the padding betweeen the edge of the switch window and the edge of the selected app selected background
keyboardLayout	dvorak, colemak, azerty or qwerty	Default: qwerty. The keyboard layout you are using.
snapshotTitleMatch	levenshtein or sequential	Default: levenshtein. The algorithm to use when determining if titles match or not for the snapshot operation. If levenshtein, the titles with the lowest levenshtein distance will be matched, if sequential, the titles with the maximum common prefix length will be matched. Note that this will change the algorithm for all apps. If you would like to change the algorithm for only one app use snapshotTitleMatch:'APP_NAME' for example to change the algorithm for only iTerm, use the following directive: config snapshotTitleMatch:'iTerm' sequential.
snapshotMaxStackSize	Integer	Default: 0. The size of the stack to keep when creating snapshots using the stack option. If <= 0, the size of the stack will be unlimited.
gridBackgroundColor	Semicolon Separated Array of Floats	Default: 75;77;81;1.0. The background color for the grid operation as an array in the form Red;Green;Blue;Alpha where Red, Green, and Blue are numbers between 0.0 and 255.0 and Alpha is a number between 0.0 and 1.0
gridRoundedCornerSize	Number	Default: 5. The size of the rounded corners of the grid operation's background. Set this to 0 if you do not want rounded corners
gridCellBackgroundColor	Semicolon Separated Array of Floats	Default: 75;77;81;1.0. The background color for the grid operation's cells as an array in the form Red;Green;Blue;Alpha where Red, Green, and Blue are numbers between 0.0 and 255.0 and Alpha is a number between 0.0 and 1.0
gridCellSelectedColor	Semicolon Separated Array of Floats	Default: 75;77;81;1.0. The selected color for the grid operation's cells as an array in the form Red;Green;Blue;Alpha where Red, Green, and Blue are numbers between 0.0 and 255.0 and Alpha is a number between 0.0 and 1.0
gridCellRoundedCornerSize	Number	Default: 5. The size of the rounded corners of the grid operation's cells. Set this to 0 if you do not want rounded corners
layoutFocusOnActivate	Boolean	Default: false. If true, activating a layout will focus all windows touched by the layout. The order in which they will be focused is the order in which the Applications occur in the slate file. Thus, the last Application configured in the slate file will be the foremost application after the layout is triggered. If set to false, activating a layout will not focus any of the windows touched. Thus the foremost application after the layout is triggered will be the foremost application before the layout was triggered.
undoMaxStackSize	Integer	Default: 10. The size of the stack to keep when creating undo snapshots. If <= 0, the size of the stack will be unlimited. This is effectively the number of times you can use the undo binding to undo Slate operations.
undoOps	String	Default: activate-snapshot,chain,grid,layout,move,resize,sequence,shell. The list of undoable operations. Any operation in this list will take a snapshot before activation to allow undoing it. This may decrease performance. Snapshots will only be taken if an undo operation exists in your config.
modalEscapeKey	String	Default: `` (empty string). This is the keystroke that will end modal mode (in addition to the keystroke that started modal mode itself). For example setting this to esc will allow you to press `esc` after entering modal mode to exit modal mode. You may specify an entire keystroke with modifiers here e.g. `esc:ctrl`.