The lightweight OS X window manager for hackers
Phoenix is a fork of Zephyros that aims for efficiency and a very small footprint.
- Current version: 1.1
- Requires: OS X 10.9 and up
Phoenix was originally authored by Steven Degutis / @sdegutis, it's now maintained by Jason Milkins / @jasonm23
Steven is continuing work on OSX window management in Mjolnir
Install XCode and XCode command line tools, then from a terminal:
git clone https://github.com/jasonm23/phoenix.git
cd phoenix
xcodebuild
When complete you'll find a freshly built Phoenix app in
build/release.
To install it just drag-drop it to your /Applications folder.
When you first run Phoenix, you'll need to allow it to control UI. OS X will alert you of this, and open System Preferences > Security
An admin account is required to enable it.
Please Note: the default master branch will always be
stable.
Features, bug fixes etc. will be done in topic branches and
only merged to master when stable.
For the record, I'm not interested in supporting users who can't build Phoenix for themselves, it will do nothing for you without a fair degree of scripting knowledge, so I won't be providing any pre-built binaries here or via any other distribution methods.
I may add a recipe to Homebrew, because I can assume you'll have (1) the ability to use the terminal without weeping, (2) XCode will be installed.
I hope I don't hurt anyone's feelings, if you want something shiny and app-store-ey, you can use Moom (it's quite nice apparently.)
If you like the idea of scripting your own Window Management toolkit with JavaScript, Phoenix is probably going to give you the things you want.
For ideas, read other people's configs in the wiki -
Also add your own config to the wiki to show other people the cool things you can do.
Phoenix can only be scripted in JavaScript.
(...or languages which compile to JavaScript e.g. CoffeeScript, LiveScript, ClojureScript, TypeScript etc. etc.)
Released under MIT license.
Copyright (c) 2014 Jason Milkins
Copyright (c) 2013 Steven Degutis
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