KWM 1.0.1

Fixes

• Quitting KWM no longer leaves windows from other workspaces hidden. They're brought back whether you quit with Alt Shift Q (⌥⇧Q on macOS), press Ctrl+C in the terminal, or the process is killed.

Downloads

• macOS (Apple Silicon): KWM-1.0.1-macos-arm64.dmg. The app isn't notarized, so right-click → Open the first time, then grant Accessibility access when asked.
• Windows (x64): KWM-1.0.1-windows-x64.zip. Needs Java 17 or newer; unzip and run KWM.bat.

KWM 1.0.0 — macOS support

KWM now runs on macOS as well as Windows. It detects the OS at startup and loads the matching backend.

New

• macOS support: tiling through the Accessibility API, 5 workspaces, global hotkeys and focus follows mouse
• Status bar sits below the macOS menu bar, and KWM runs without a Dock icon
• Unit tests for workspaces, layouts and hotkeys

Fixes

• Battery showed the percentage used instead of the percentage left
• Windows in the right-hand stack overlapped by 2px
• Some layouts ignored the monitor's origin
• Building works when your default JDK is newer than Gradle supports

Hotkeys

Alt on Windows, Option (⌥) on macOS.

Keys	Action
Alt ←	Promote focused window to master
Alt ↑ / Alt ↓	Move focused window up / down the stack
Alt 1–5	Switch workspace
Alt Shift 1–5	Move focused window to a workspace
Alt Shift Q	Quit

Downloads

• macOS (Apple Silicon): KWM-1.0.0-macos-arm64.dmg. The app isn't notarized, so right-click → Open the first time, then grant Accessibility access when asked.
• Windows (x64): KWM-1.0.0-windows-x64.zip. Needs Java 17 or newer; unzip and run KWM.bat.

KWM 0.1.0

First release of KWM, a tiling window manager for Windows that works fully offline.

Features

• Master-stack tiling for up to 4 windows
• 5 workspaces
• Hotkeys to promote and reorder windows and move them between workspaces
• Focus follows mouse
• Status bar with workspaces, clock, CPU, RAM and battery

Run

Needs JDK 17+ on Windows 10/11:

./gradlew :launcher:run