yabai commands

yabai-keys.sh

# use these in Keyboard Maestro with an "Execute Shell Script" Action

# cycle forward through spaces on the focused display
id="$(yabai -m query --spaces --display | jq 'sort_by(.index) | reverse | .[map(."has-focus") | index(true) - 1].index')" && yabai -m space --focus "${id}"

# cycle backward through spaces on the focused display
id="$(yabai -m query --spaces --display | jq 'sort_by(.index) | .[map(."has-focus") | index(true) - 1].index')" && yabai -m space --focus "${id}"

# cycle forward to next space across all displays (circularly)
yabai -m space --focus next || yabai -m space --focus first

# cycle backward to previous space across all displays (circularly)
yabai -m space --focus prev || yabai -m space --focus last

# move window to and focus next space
yabai -m window --space next && yabai -m space --focus next || \
yabai -m window --space first && yabai -m space --focus first

# move window to and focus previous space
yabai -m window --space prev
yabai -m space --focus prev

# swap window to next tile
yabai -m window --swap next || yabai -m window --swap first

# swap window to previous tile
yabai -m window --swap prev || yabai -m window --swap last

# overall focused space padding around edges ~95%
yabai -m space --padding abs:10:10:20:20

# increase overall focused space padding
yabai -m space --padding rel:10:10:20:20

# decrease overall focused space padding
yabai -m space --padding rel:-10:-10:-20:-20

# toggle window float on/off
yabai -m window --toggle float

# toggle window opaque/translucent
opacity=$(yabai -m query --windows --window | jq '.opacity'); if (( $(echo "$opacity < 1.0" |bc -l) )); then yabai -m window --opacity 1.0; else yabai -m window --opacity 0.95; fi

# if below 1.0 opacity, increase by 0.05
opacity=$(yabai -m query --windows --window | jq '.opacity'); if (( $(echo "$opacity < 1.0" |bc -l) )); then newpacity=`echo $opacity + 0.05 | bc`; yabai -m window --opacity $newpacity; fi

# if below 1.0 opacity, reduce by 0.05
opacity=$(yabai -m query --windows --window | jq '.opacity'); if (( $(echo "$opacity > 0.0" |bc -l) )); then newpacity=`echo $opacity - 0.05 | bc`; yabai -m window --opacity $newpacity; fi