dinky 0.22

Layout

• New fullscreen-width gives a fullscreen window a share of the width, centred, so a terminal or editor on an ultrawide need not span it. A window alone on a workspace takes the same share. Set it at the top level, per display in [display.<pattern>], or per workspace in [workspace.<number>] and its display tables (#50).

Mouse

• Dropping a dragged window can split a tile instead of swapping. With [drag] split-trigger = 'hold', hold the window still over the tile for split-delay-ms first; with 'alt', 'ctrl', 'cmd' or 'shift', hold that key. The window takes the half the pointer is in, and the outline shows which. Off by default; the fixed, master and scrolling layouts only swap.

Fixes

• list-windows no longer lists windows an app has hidden rather than closed, such as a settings window closed with Cmd-W that the app keeps around. Before, they stayed in the list on the workspace they were last shown on (#52).

dinky 0.21

Upgrading: layout scrolling, layout master and layout dwindle no longer parse, so a config binding them fails to load. Write workspace-layout scrolling, master or dwindle instead, and split a cycle like layout tiles accordion scrolling into layout tiles accordion and workspace-layout dwindle scrolling.

Commands

• layout only sets the focused window's container, the stack in a master layout and the column in a scrolling one, or floats and tiles the window, as in AeroSpace. The new workspace-layout <dwindle|master|scrolling>... switches the workspace's layout and cycles the same way. The Layout menu follows.
• workspace-layout dwindle from a master workspace keeps the stack's mode instead of taking the config's.
• New %{workspace-layout} format variable: dwindle, fixed, master or scrolling.

dinky 0.20

Tiling

• New master layout, after Hyprland's: one window, the master, takes [master] size of the display (0.6) on the [master] side you choose, and the others stack beside it. The first window fills the display alone, the second opens the stack, later ones join its bottom. When the master closes, the top of the stack takes its place; when the stack empties, the master fills the display again. layout tiles accordion toggles the stack between tiles and an accordion from any window in it.
• layout master switches the focused workspace to the master layout with the focused window as the master, and layout dwindle takes a master or scrolling workspace back to its tree. swap-with-master swaps the focused window with the master, or the master with the top of the stack. All three are in the Layout menu.

Configuration

• follow-app-activation also takes a table, [follow-app-activation] with enabled and exclude-apps, a list of bundle IDs whose activation dinky never follows to another Space. Use it for a menu bar app whose popover counts as a window, such as Synology Drive Client, which otherwise pulls you to its workspace when you click its icon (#27).

Fixes

• A browser's picture-in-picture window no longer takes dinky's focus, so focus left and friends work with the video playing: focus stays with the tiled window beneath (#13). Before, Chromium browsers kept it above every other window and tagged it like a document window, so dinky took it for the focused one and focus answered "no focused window" until it was closed.
• An app that stops responding no longer stalls dinky. Before, a hung frontmost app could stall typing everywhere, since dinky asked it for its focused window twice a second with no time limit; raising its windows blocked the next arrangement, disabling and quitting for seconds; reading a new window's fullscreen button could take six; and an arrangement that waited on it could put an older stacking order back over the latest one. Every question dinky asks an app now gives up within a second, and overlapping windows end up in the order of the latest arrangement.
• Disabled dinky leaves windows and Spaces alone. Before, while off it still ran [[rules]] on new windows, moved them to the focused display, and rearranged workspaces on a config reload or display change; a dinky enable off sent before Accessibility was granted got lost; and turning dinky back on after a display was plugged in or out while it was off sent windows back to where they were before the change.
• Disabling, quitting and dinky recover put windows back where they were when dinky launched. Before, the frames recorded as the originals could already be the tiled ones. A window that could not be put back, because its display was unplugged or its app did not answer, is tried again by the next disable, quit or dinky recover, unless you move it by hand first; one app that stops responding during the restore no longer spoils the report for the others; and dinky started disabled leaves windows alone when it quits instead of putting them back where they were when Accessibility was granted.
• Showing, hiding or moving the Dock, or turning menu bar hiding on or off, fits the tiles to the new free area. Before, they kept the old one until something else changed. Windows you moved after a display was plugged in or out also stay put now; before, a later config reload could send them back to where they had been before the display change.
• A window you are dragging stays under the pointer when the layout changes mid-drag, such as when another window opens, and dropping it back where it started leaves its size alone. Before, the layout wrote it back to its tile, and the drop could read as a resize into its new neighbour.
• Switching to an empty workspace stays there with app activation following on. Before, on a Mac where the switch took longer than 300 ms to land, such as an Intel Mac before macOS 27, Finder's activation on arrival was taken for one you asked for, and dinky followed it straight back.
• Switching workspaces on two displays in quick succession lands each display where it was sent. Before, a switch asked for while the other display's switch moved the pointer could be dropped.
• Focus borders show up on the Space you switch to when macOS sends dinky no event for the switch, as with some swipes another app posts. Before, dinky kept drawing borders for the old Space until something else redrew them (#30).
• On macOS before 27, apps that stop drawing while hidden, like Ghostty, show their content after a workspace switch. Before, the switch skipped macOS's animation, so their windows were never told they were visible again. A switch across several workspaces plays the animation once, for the last step.
• A dinky.toml that is a symlink is followed properly: a link to a missing file, such as one into a dotfiles checkout not cloned yet, stays a symlink instead of being replaced by the default config, and replacing the link itself, as ln -sf or a dotfiles tool does, reloads the config.
• Resizing with the keyboard leaves a window alone when it shares its container with ten or more others, as after flatten-workspace-tree with eleven windows. Before, growing it made it vanish.
• join-with left and right in the scrolling layout put a window into the neighbouring column even when it sits side by side with another inside its column. Before, it joined that other window instead.
• A CLI argument with both ' and " in it, such as a --format of it's "%{app-name}", or one starting with a combining accent, reaches dinky as typed. Before, quotes were lost, and some mixes swallowed the flags after it.
• When dinky can't listen to the keyboard, as can happen right after Accessibility is granted, it keeps trying and the menu bar shows ! with a menu line saying the key bindings are off. Before, the bindings stayed dead until dinky restarted.
• exec-and-forget finds Homebrew's commands on Intel Macs, where Homebrew lives in /usr/local, and dinky doctor says dinky is developed and tested on macOS 27 instead of claiming every build was built against 27.0.

dinky 0.19

Tiling

• New [workspace.<number>.display.<pattern>] tables give a workspace other settings while it is on one display, such as two fixed columns on an ultrawide and an accordion on the laptop screen. When you dock or undock, the workspace switches layout as it moves.
• Switching workspaces is lighter and no longer sets windows gliding. A switch reads only the workspace you arrive at and lays it out only if something changed there while you were away, so its windows are in place as it shows.
• Dragging a window is lighter, so the drag stays smooth and its border keeps up.

Key bindings

• hyper and meh name the usual modifier combinations: hyper-1 is alt-ctrl-cmd-shift-1, and meh-1 is alt-ctrl-shift-1.

Rules

• New app-id-regex key matches the bundle ID by regex, like app-name does for the app's name: app-id-regex = '^com\.jetbrains\.' covers every JetBrains app with one rule. app-id still matches exactly.

Hooks

• New display-changed hook runs when a display connects or disconnects, once the workspaces have moved, with DINKY_DISPLAYS and DINKY_PREV_DISPLAYS set to how many displays there are now and were before. React to docking and undocking without Hammerspoon.
• exec-and-forget has dinky itself on PATH, so hook scripts can call dinky when the app was started from Finder.

Fixes

• Turning dinky off takes its borders away and leaves window drags alone: no drop outlines, and no swap or resize remembered for when it comes back on.
• dinky keeps tiling a window after its app closes and reopens it, as Slack does when you close its window with Cmd-W and open it again from the Dock.
• Terminal windows shrink again. Terminal sizes its windows in whole rows and columns, so it never lands exactly on its tile; a size now counts as a minimum only when the window comes back at it for two different sizes asked, so that miss no longer passes for one. Minimum sizes saved by earlier versions are forgotten once.
• move, join-with and resize succeed when there is nothing to do, such as move left on a window already at the left edge: the CLI prints move left: nothing to do and exits 0, so launchers like LeaderKey show no error.
• A layout command keeps a fixed workspace's template when it leaves its shape alone, such as one that changes nothing or turns the overflow accordion vertical, so later windows still fill the grid.
• Releases say they need Apple silicon, so a dinky built from source on an Intel Mac doesn't offer to update itself to one, and brew install stops with a clear message.

dinky 0.18

Key bindings

• New [modifiers] table picks which key of each modifier pair your bindings answer to: 'both' (the default), 'left' or 'right'. With alt = 'left', left Option runs dinky's bindings and right Option types special characters like ˙ and ≈ as usual.

dinky 0.17

Menu

• Layout > Scrolling switches the focused window's workspace to the scrolling layout.

Fixes

• Switching more than one workspace away no longer stops on the workspaces in between. Before, macOS briefly activated the app on each one it passed, which put that app into the Cmd-Tab order. Multi-step switches are faster too.
• Borders stay on while focus moves during an animation, such as scrolling the scrolling layout. Before, the borders of the window losing focus and the one gaining it blinked off until the windows arrived.
• Switching workspaces works with natural scrolling off. Before, on macOS 27 the swipe went the wrong way and bounced back to the workspace you were on, and following an app from the Dock or Cmd-Tab failed the same way.
• Switching workspaces on macOS before 27 uses the swipe those versions understand. Before, it bounced back there too.

dinky 0.16

Tiling

• New scrolling layout, after niri and Hyprland: windows open as columns in a row that scrolls past the display edges to the focused one. Columns are 0.49 of the display wide by default, as Omarchy sets them ([scrolling] column-width); a lone column fills the display. Columns out of view hang off the edge with a sliver showing, an inner gap from the columns in view, or wait behind the columns in view where another display is beyond.
• layout scrolling switches the focused workspace to scrolling and layout tiles or accordion back, and layout with several names now cycles through them: layout tiles accordion scrolling.

dinky 0.15

Tiling

• New windows open on the focused display, unless a rule moves them.

Fixes

• An empty workspace activates Finder, even with the desktop turned off, so typing no longer goes to an app on another workspace.

dinky 0.14

Install

• The Homebrew cask installs on macOS 15 or later, as the app supports. Before, it asked for a newer macOS.

Command line

• dinky -v prints the version, like dinky version and dinky --version.

Fixes

• Switching to an empty workspace keeps focus on its display. Before, macOS could hand focus to a window on another display, so typing and the next workspace next went there. focus-monitor onto an empty display also takes the keyboard off the other display's window.

dinky 0.13

Tiling

• Windows that can't go full screen float on their own, like Finder's copy progress window, About This Mac and Calculator. Terminals and editors that can hide their title bar still tile. Set float-windows-without-fullscreen = false to tile them as before, or tile a single app with a layout tiling rule.