smove

smove is a small native macOS app that recreates Spectacle-style window shortcuts.

It uses:

• Carbon global hotkeys for the keyboard shortcuts.
• macOS Accessibility APIs to move and resize the focused window.
• ~/Library/Application Support/smove/Shortcuts.json for its active shortcut config.
• ~/Library/Application Support/Spectacle/Shortcuts.json as the first-run import source.

Build

make app

The app bundle is created at:

dist/smove.app

Run

make run

On first launch, macOS will require Accessibility permission:

1. Open System Settings.
2. Go to Privacy & Security > Accessibility.
3. Enable smove.
4. Quit Spectacle before using smove, because Spectacle may already own the same global hotkeys.
5. Relaunch smove or choose Reload Shortcuts from the menu-bar item.

Install

make install

This copies the app to /Applications/smove.app.

Signing

The Makefile uses ad-hoc signing by default:

make install

For stable Accessibility permissions across local rebuilds, sign with your own Apple Development certificate:

make install SIGN_IDENTITY="Apple Development: Your Name (TEAMID)"

Imported Spectacle Shortcuts

These match Spectacle-style shortcuts and can be overridden by editing ~/Library/Application Support/smove/Shortcuts.json:

Action	Shortcut
Left Half	alt+cmd+left
Right Half	alt+cmd+right
Top Half	alt+cmd+up
Bottom Half	alt+cmd+down
Fullscreen	alt+cmd+f
Center	alt+cmd+c
Next Display	ctrl+alt+cmd+right
Previous Display	ctrl+alt+cmd+left
Next Third	ctrl+alt+right
Previous Third	ctrl+alt+left
Upper Left	ctrl+cmd+left
Upper Right	ctrl+cmd+right
Lower Left	ctrl+shift+cmd+left
Lower Right	ctrl+shift+cmd+right
Make Larger	ctrl+alt+shift+right
Make Smaller	ctrl+alt+shift+left
Undo Last Move	alt+cmd+z
Redo Last Move	alt+shift+cmd+z