Moom 4: A Major Upgrade to the Moom Window Manager for Mac

[jim_sauer]

@jim_sauer

I’ve been playing around with the combination of Chains, Layouts, and hot keys and have been able to get some of the features that are appealing with tiling window managers.

I have an update to share…

With Moom 4.0, as I mentioned in the above post, I was really intrigued with the thought of combining Chains, Layouts, and hot keys.

Here’s an excerpt from the Moom 4.0 Release Notes…

• Chains are now folder-like entities, as opposed to being defined by assigning the same hot key to multiple custom actions.
• Chained actions can now be run as one (as before), or as separate steps in a loop, where each activation of a chain executes the next step in the chain. Loops can optionally be tracked separately for each affected window.

As I continued to use my initial Moom 4 configuration with Chains, I quickly found that I wanted more control; specifically a way to force the steps to begin at the first Layout. With the current version of Moom (v4.1.3), if a Chain includes four sequential Layouts and the use of it has advanced to Layout 2, there is no way (with a hot key or otherwise) to resume at Layout 1, i.e., to effectively skip Layout 3 and Layout 4.

Fortunately Moom 4 includes an AppleScript suite. Thus with Keyboard Maestro I’ve been able to achieve the reset functionality described above. In addition when Moom 4 Layouts include overlapping windows, there are situations when the Layout brings the wrong window to the foreground. These issues, too, can are addressed using Keyboard Maestro actions.

If you are interested in this approach, please come over to the Keyboard Maestro forum to download the macro and the related Moom 4 Layouts.

[ MACRO: Use Moom Layout Sets, v1.0 - Macro Library - Keyboard Maestro Discourse ]