@geekbb: Great tool, a macOS sidebar utility for the Ghostty terminal that allows you to quickly create, switch between, and arrange terminal sessions. Smoothly control windows via Ghostty AppleScript and Accessibility APIs, enabling direct jumps to the Space containing a specific session from a floating panel. S…

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Rig is a macOS sidebar utility developed for the Ghostty terminal, supporting rapid creation, switching, and arrangement of terminal session windows via AppleScript and Accessibility APIs.

Great tool, a macOS sidebar utility for the Ghostty terminal that allows you to quickly create, switch between, and arrange terminal sessions. Smoothly control windows via Ghostty AppleScript and Accessibility APIs, enabling direct jumps to the Space containing a specific session from a floating panel. Supports four window layouts: grid, cascade, side-by-side, and fullscreen. https://t.co/lARajMrIqg https://t.co/abi6DDR3vB
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Great tool! Provides a macOS sidebar utility for the Ghostty terminal, allowing you to quickly create, switch, and arrange terminal sessions.

It smoothly controls windows via Ghostty AppleScript and Accessibility APIs, enabling you to jump directly from the floating panel to the Space containing a specific session. It supports four window layouts: grid, cascade, side-by-side, and full screen.

https://t.co/lARajMrIqg https://t.co/abi6DDR3vB

backnotprop/rig

Source: https://github.com/backnotprop/rig

Rig

Rig is a small macOS sidecar for Ghostty.

It gives engineers a fast way to create, focus, arrange, and track terminal sessions across projects and coding harnesses. It controls real Ghostty windows through Ghostty AppleScript and macOS Accessibility APIs.

Demo

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4eabc7a1-01ab-460b-bd5c-87b496cd4299

What It Does

  • Launch Ghostty sessions for configured harnesses
  • Keep session windows reachable from a floating side panel
  • Switch directly to a session’s Space
  • Arrange managed Ghostty windows as grid, cascade, side by side, or fill screen
  • Detect local servers started from sessions and show clickable URLs
  • Open a detected URL beside its Ghostty session on the current desktop

Requirements

  • macOS
  • Ghostty
  • Accessibility permission for window arrangement
  • Automation permission to control Ghostty

Development

sh ./dev.sh

This builds, signs, and launches the local development app.

Release

sh ./release.sh

This builds the distributable macOS app.

Notes

Rig keeps runtime session state in memory. Ghostty window IDs and Accessibility references are not durable across app or Ghostty restarts.

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