Global Configs

The following descriptions are for the JavaScript configs. If you are using the original style configs, all configs that can be arrays should use the String version (semicolon separated string). Also, when using the original style config, double-quotes should not be used for strings.

List of Global Configs

defaultToCurrentScreen

• type: Boolean
• default: false
• true causes all bindings to default to the current screen if the screen they 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.

repeatOnHoldOps

• type: String
• default: "resize,nudge"
• Comma separated list of operations that should repeat when the hotkey is held.

secondsBeforeRepeat

• type: Number
• default: 0.4
• The number of seconds before repeating starts (for ops in repeatOnHoldOps)

secondsBetweenRepeat

• type: Number
• default: 0.1
• The number of seconds between repeats (for ops in repeatOnHoldOps)

checkDefaultsOnLoad

• type: Boolean
• default: false
• true causes the default directives to be checked/triggered after any configuration load.

orderScreensLeftToRight

• type: Boolean
• default: true
• When this is true, monitors will be ordered from left to right by X coordinate (if two X coordinates 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:.

keyboardLayout

• type: String. Must be one of "dvorak", "colemak", "azerty" or "qwerty".
• default: "qwerty"
• The keyboard layout you are using.

modalEscapeKey

• type: 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.

List of Operation Specific Configs

nudgePercentOf

• type: String
• default: screenSize
• Will use this value for the nudge percent calculation. Possible values are windowSize and screenSize.

resizePercentOf

• type: String
• default: screenSize
• Will use this value for the resize percent calculation. Possible values are windowSize and screenSize.

focusCheckWidth

• type: 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 further away focus will check for adjacent windows. Consequently, the larger this is, the more irritatingly stupid focus can be.

focusCheckWidthMax

• type: 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

• type: 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.

windowHintsBackgroundColor

• type: String with Semicolon Separated Array of Floats or an Array of Floats
• default: "50;53;58;0.9" (same as [50, 53, 58, 0.9])
• The background color for Window Hints as an array in the form "Red;Green;Blue;Alpha" or [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

• type: Expression
• default: "100"
• The width of the Window Hints overlay in pixels. Please see this page for more information on expressions.

windowHintsHeight

• type: Expression
• default: "100"
• The height of the Window Hints overlay in pixels. Please see this page for more information on expressions.

windowHintsFontColor

• type: String with Semicolon Separated Array of Floats or an Array of Floats
• default: "255;255;255;1.0" (same as [255, 255, 255, 1.0])
• The font color for Window Hints as an array in the form "Red;Green;Blue;Alpha" or [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

• type: String
• default: "Helvetica"
• The name of the Window Hints font.

windowHintsFontSize

• type: Integer
• default: 40
• The size of the Window Hints font.

windowHintsDuration

• type: Number
• default: 3
• The number of seconds that Window Hints will display for.

windowHintsRoundedCornerSize

• type: 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

• type: 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

• type: String with 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) sequentially 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

• type: String with 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) sequentially 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

• type: String. Must be one of "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

• type: 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

• type: 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

• type: Number
• default: 40
• The width in pixels of the search box for hint collisions. Other hints within this box will be spread down.

windowHintsSpreadSearchHeight

• type: Number
• default: 40
• The height in pixels of the search box for hint collisions. Other hints within this box will be spread down.

windowHintsSpreadPadding

• type: Number
• default: 20
• The padding between hint boxes which have been spread downwards.

snapshotTitleMatch

• type: String. Must be one of "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: slate.config("snapshotTitleMatch:'iTerm'", "sequential");.

snapshotMaxStackSize

• type: 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

• type: String with Semicolon Separated Array of Floats or an Array of Floats
• default: "75;77;81;1.0" (same [75, 77, 81, 1.0])
• The background color for the grid operation as an array in the form "Red;Green;Blue;Alpha" or [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

• type: 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

• type: String with Semicolon Separated Array of Floats or an Array of Floats
• default: "75;77;81;1.0" (same as [75, 77, 81, 1.0])
• The background color for the grid operation's cells as an array in the form "Red;Green;Blue;Alpha" or [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

• type: String with Semicolon Separated Array of Floats or an Array of Floats
• default: "75;77;81;1.0" (same as [75, 77, 81, 1.0])
• The selected color for the grid operation's cells as an array in the form "Red;Green;Blue;Alpha" or [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

• type: 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

• type: 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

• type: 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

• type: String
• default: "activate-snapshot,chain,grid,layout,move,push,nudge,corner,throw,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.

switchIconSize

• type: Number
• default: 100
• The size of the application icons for the switch operation.

switchIconPadding

• type: Number
• default: 5
• The padding around the application icons for the switch operation.

switchBackgroundColor

• type: String with Semicolon Separated Array of Floats or an Array of Floats
• default: "50;53;58;0.3" (same as [50, 53, 58, 0.3])
• The background color for the switch operation as an array in the form "Red;Green;Blue;Alpha" or [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

• type: String with Semicolon Separated Array of Floats or an Array of Floats
• default: "50;53;58;0.9" (same as [50, 53, 58, 0.9])
• The selected background color for the switch operation as an array in the form "Red;Green;Blue;Alpha" or [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

• type: String with Semicolon Separated Array of Floats or an Array of Floats
• default: "230;230;230;0.9" (same as [230, 230, 230, 0.9])
• The selected border color for the switch operation as an array in the form "Red;Green;Blue;Alpha" or [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

• type: Number
• default: 2
• The size of the selected border of the switch operation. Set this to 0 if you do not a border.

switchRoundedCornerSize

• type: 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

• type: String. Must be one of "horizontal" or "vertical".
• default: "horizontal"
• Which direction to grow the application switcher.

switchSecondsBeforeRepeat

• type: Number
• default: 0.4
• The number of seconds before repeating starts for forward/back keypresses for the switch operation.

switchSecondsBetweenRepeat

• type: Number
• default: 0.05
• The number of seconds between repeating the forward/back keypresses for the switch operation.

switchStopRepeatAtEdge

• type: 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

• type: 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

• type: Boolean
• default: false
• If true, the switch operation will show the title of the items in the list as well.

switchFontColor

• type: String with Semicolon Separated Array of Floats or an Array of Floats
• default: "255;255;255;1.0" (same as [255, 255, 255, 1.0])
• The font color for the switch operation as an array in the form "Red;Green;Blue;Alpha" or [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

• type: String
• default: "Helvetica"
• The name of the switch operation title font.

switchFontSize

• type: Number
• default: 14
• The size of the switch operation font.

switchSelectedPadding

• type: Number
• default: 10
• The size of the padding between the edge of the switch window and the edge of the selected app selected background.