Name: Slate
Rating: 3.6667 (8 reviews)

Free

Absolutely Free

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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

Updated on Feb 24 2013

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

Information

License

Free

Size

2.2 MB

Developer’s website

https://github.com/jigish/slate

Downloads

13321

App requirements

Intel 64
Mac OS X 10.6.0 or later

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Tschoepler

Sep 26 2014

1.0.25

5.0

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.

anonymous-dingo-653

Jan 27 2013

1.0.22

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.

Iliketrash

Dec 13 2012

1.0.16

Version: 1.0.16

Does Slate know about spaces (virtual desktops)? Will it restore a snapshot's windows to the correct space?

mcduffin

Dec 7 2012

1.0.15

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?

Fishscale

Nov 28 2012

1.0.13

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.

Laine

Sep 29 2012

1.0.3

Version: 1.0.3

It's good. Most of us may need some help with it.

Canisbos

Sep 16 2012

I've been waiting for a utility like this (it seems like) all my life. Finally, to be able to move and/or resize windows completely arbitrarily with any key combo! I was using AppleScript in combination with Spark (for key bindings) to accomplish some of what Slate can do, but this is much faster and better. Thank you, jigish!

neartheredrocks

Sep 15 2012

How is this supposed to work? To say (on the developer's website) "Slate is configured using a ".slate" file in the current user's home directory" does not really help. Do I have to create such an invisible file?