Slate for Mac
Highly configurable window manager.
Free
In English
Version 1.0.25When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission
Slate overview
Slate is a window management application similar to Divvy and SizeUp (except better and free!). Originally written to replace them due to some limitations in how each work, it attemps to overcome them by simply being extremely configurable. As a result, it may be a bit daunting to get configured, but once it is done, the benefit is huge.
What’s new in version 1.0.25
Version 1.0.25:
- Updates to JavaScript configs
- Issue #239 - add events and event listeners
- Issue #252 - allow for integers in screenForRef
- Issue #241 - fix order of operations related issues in corner operation
- Issue #233 - allow numbers in options for move based operations
- fix doop on window object
- fix screenCount
- Issue #240 - add link to about page
- Issue #250 - load default config file properly
- Merge Pull Request #248 - fix undo for move based operations
- Merge Pull Request #253 - allow quoted arguments in shell operation
Slate for Mac
Free
In English
Version 1.0.25
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Sep 26 2014
Version: 1.0.25
Great tool. Though I only use it for restoring certain sets of windows (per project), I couldn't find a free tool that does the trick. Plays nicely with BetterTouchTool.
Jan 27 2013
Version: 1.0.22
I'm not going to rate this, because I'm not going to spend time learning its full capability. It's approach simply isn't for me, as I prefer the on the fly per window functionality of Moom instead. But overall, this is pretty impressive for the paradigm on which it was built... and is actually built to be community supported and expanded. Nicely done.
Dec 13 2012
Version: 1.0.16
Does Slate know about spaces (virtual desktops)? Will it restore a snapshot's windows to the correct space?
Dec 7 2012
Version: 1.0.15
Excellent stuff. It's not the easiest piece of software to use, but that doesn't matter for me personally. As someone who have spent many years in the world of highly configurable Unix window managers, I don't miss a thing.
One comment though. Why download link points to tar.gz if there is easier to use dmg available?
Nov 28 2012
Version: 1.0.13
1) Yes the readme on github can be daunting but go through it and it makes sense plus provides links to example configs as well as write-ups.
2) If you want a tutorial of sorts or how one user configures their setup check out: http://thume.ca/howto/2012/11/19/using-slate/
3) This app is in a league of it's own. The possibilities are endless. No app, paid or otherwise has as many features or is as customizable as Slate is this early on. Dev is super responsive to new ideas too.
Spend the time learning the basics/ripping other's .slate files until you get the hang of it and you will not know how you lived without it.