Tinkle
Tinkle is a macOS app which appends a visual effect for the focused window changes.
It helps finding the focused window when you switched it by keyboard shortcuts.
Download
You can download from https://tinkle.pqrs.org/.
Supported systems
macOS 11 Big Sur or later.
Required privilege
Tinkle requires accessibility features in order to detect the focused window changes.
For developers
How to build
System requirements to build Tinkle:
- macOS 11.0+
- Xcode 13+
- Command Line Tools for Xcode
- XcodeGen
- create-dmg
Steps
-
Get source code by executing a following command in Terminal.app.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pqrs-org/Tinkle.git cd Tinkle git submodule update --init --recursive --depth 1
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Find your codesign identity if you have one.
(Skip this step if you don't have your codesign identity.)security find-identity -p codesigning -v | grep 'Developer ID Application'
The result is as follows.
1) 8D660191481C98F5C56630847A6C39D95C166F22 "Developer ID Application: Fumihiko Takayama (G43BCU2T37)"
Your codesign identity is
8D660191481C98F5C56630847A6C39D95C166F22
in the above case. -
Set environment variable to use your codesign identity.
(Skip this step if you don't have your codesign identity.)export PQRS_ORG_CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY=8D660191481C98F5C56630847A6C39D95C166F22
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Build a package by executing a following command in Terminal.app.
make package
Tinkle-*.dmg
will be generated.Note: If you don't have codesign identity, the dmg works only on your machine.
Playgrounds
Tinkle users Metal shader to make effects.
playground/Metal.playground
helps you if you want to add your own effect.