Any window manager apps to set custom layouts for windows with specific tiles?

[Oneechan69]

Like, if I have a Firefox window open on a specific tab, the tab's name will appear in the title (which can be seen with dock preview apps like DockMate). I want to be able to set custom window layouts for apps with specific titles (or titles that contain specific phrases) and trigger them with hotkeys.

 

[bogdanw]

You could automate that with AppleScript
The Name Property https://macosxautomation.com/applescript/firsttutorial/03.html
The Position Property https://macosxautomation.com/applescript/firsttutorial/10.html
The Bounds Property https://macosxautomation.com/applescript/firsttutorial/11.html

 

[Oneechan69]

I asked Mistral Medium on Poe, about doing it with Hammerspoon and it outputted lua for it. I looked up the HS API real quick to see if looked valid and it did. I haven't tried it yet but will when I have time to really look at Hammerspoon.

@bogdanw What do u think of Hammerspoon, especially for tasks like this? It looks much more appealing since it uses a more normal language (lua) rather than AppleScript which is very unintuitive for just about anyone with programming experience.

 

[bogdanw]

@bogdanw What do u think of Hammerspoon, especially for tasks like this?

It’s the first time I hear about Hammerspoon & Lua and for me it seems like an over-complication.
In AppleScript
- to get the name on the front Firefox window
tell application "Firefox" to get the name of front window
- to set the bounds of a Firefox window named “Apple”
tell application "Firefox" to set the bounds of the window "Apple" to {24, 96, 524, 396}

 

[Oneechan69]

@bogdanw I'm a little surprised given how active you seem here. tell application "Firefox" to get the name of front window is pretty unintuitive if you know one or a few more common programming languages. What languages do u know?