Install a Hotkey Daemon

As an IT professional, there is nothing more important than a set of customized keyboard shortcuts for everything you need to do. That’s where a hotkey daemon, such as skhd becomes useful.

You can install and start the skhd hotkey daemon using brew:

brew install koekeishiya/formulae/skhd
brew services start skhd

You’ll also need to create a ~/.skhdrc file with your desired configuration. While the example ~/.skhdrc file listed on the skhd website has plenty of great examples, click on the screenshot below for my ~/.skhdrc configuration that you can paste into your ~/.skhdrc file, if you wish.

n my ~/.skhdrc file, the first three lines set keyboard shortcuts for my iTerm, Visual Studio Code and Firefox apps (the open -a command searches /Applications for the name specified):cmd - return : open -a iTerm

cmd + shift - return : open -a "Visual Studio Code"
alt - return : open -a Firefox

The remaining (many) lines of my ~/.skhdrc file create shortcuts that use yabai to modify window behavior.

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