A lightweight, simple window switcher inspired by HyperSwitch.
Note
The name, app icon, and menu icon are all placeholders!
demo.mp4
macOS 12.3+
This project uses the GN meta-build system. Binaries are available here. This was done to avoid relying on Xcode! GN is also just fast and very nice to work with.
The build system, Ninja, can be installed with brew install ninja.
The archiver llvm-ar is used for linking static libraries and is part of brew install llvm.
It is highly recommended to code sign the app! This prevents macOS from asking for Accessiblity/Screen Recording permissions on every recompile.
To do this, find your ID using security find-identity -v -p codesigning. Then,
gn args out
and paste your ID in the editor as
code_signing_identity = "your 40 hexadecimal digits"
Next, run
gn gen out
ninja -C out
This generates Switcher.app in the out/ directory.
log stream --predicate 'subsystem contains "com.jason5122.switcher"' --style compact
You can also use Console.app, but I prefer viewing them in the terminal so I use this command.