Aegis - Aerospace support

[CCMurphy-dev]

Hey, just released Aegis v1.0.23 with AeroSpace support if anyone's interested — it's a menu bar replacement that shows your workspaces with window icons, lets you switch/move windows from the menu bar, and replaces Cmd+Tab with workspace-aware window switching. Auto-detects AeroSpace on launch.

https://github.com/CCMurphy-Dev/Aegis

[iandol]

Hi @CCMurphy-dev thanks for this. I have a couple of questions:

1. The installer doesn't seem to check ~/.config/aerospace/aerospace.toml whih is a valid AS config location.
2. Would you consider a mode visualiser for AS — AS supports modes and for e.g. sketchybar you can visualise the mode by registering like this: on-mode-changed = ['exec-and-forget sketchybar --trigger aerospace_mode_change']

Very nice tool, thank you for your hard work!

[CCMurphy-dev]

Thanks for the kind words!

Good catch on the config path ~/.config/aerospace/aerospace.toml should be checked with the installer - I'll fix that

Mode visualisation is a great idea, I'll look at adding it. The FIFO pipe already handles events so hooking on-mode-changed to push to the pipe (same pattern as workspace changes) should work cleanly. I'll add it to the roadmap.

[CCMurphy-dev]

Thanks for the feedback! Both issues are addressed in v1.0.24:

Config path — the installer and setup checker now check ~/.config/aerospace/aerospace.toml first, falling back to ~/.aerospace.toml.
Mode visualiser — implemented! Aegis now shows a pill badge in the menu bar whenever you're in a non-main mode (e.g. RESIZE), styled to match the active space indicator. It disappears automatically when you return to main. The setup script installs an on-mode-changed hook alongside the existing workspace hook.
Thanks again for the suggestions — really appreciated!

[iandol]

A small detail, when upgrading to V1.0.24+, the existing .config/aegis scripts are not updated, so manually "rerunning" setup-aegis-aerospace.sh isn't using the latest version (sand thus there is no mode-change script for aerospace to run). Possibly if I delete the whole folder it is recreated?

EDIT: see CCMurphy-dev/Aegis#3