What's new in Spectacle 1.2
Dec 23, 2016
- Introduces the ability to have windows moved between thirds after being moved to a corner
- Supports symbolic links to shortcut files
- Moves the "Launch Spectacle at login" option to a more obvious location
- Fixes a crash on OS X 10.9
- Fixes issues assigning various shortcuts
New in Spectacle 1.1.2 (Dec 19, 2016)
- Fixes an issue where Spectacle would corrupt the shortcuts file
New in Spectacle 1.1.1 (Dec 18, 2016)
- Allows using the option key as the only shortcut modifier
- Supports symbolic links to shortcut files
- Fixes an issue making full-screen windows smaller
New in Spectacle 1.1 (Sep 13, 2016)
- Introduces a human-readable format for storing custom shortcuts
- Simplifies the behavior of undoing and redoing window actions
- Better support for Dvorak keyboard layouts
- Better support for changing keyboard layouts
- Fixes a number of issues where custom shortcuts would stop working
New in Spectacle 1.0.6 (May 4, 2016)
- Resolves aggressive fallback behavior for most window movements
New in Spectacle 1.0.5 (May 3, 2016)
- Fixes window movements between displays.
New in Spectacle 1.0.4 (May 3, 2016)
- Adds Finnish translations
- Improves window movements between displays
New in Spectacle 1.0.3 (Feb 22, 2016)
- Addresses an issue where windows would "slide" into incorrect positions
- Resolves issues when windows with restricted dimensions would be positioned off the screen
- Restores the proper behavior of moving quantized windows (e.g. Terminal or iTerm 2) into thirds
New in Spectacle 1.0.2 (Feb 12, 2016)
- Improvements:
- Sparkle has been updated to 1.13.1 in order to address a security vulnerability
- The Italian translations have been improved
- Brazilian Portuguese translations have been added
New in Spectacle 1.0.1 (Sep 11, 2015)
- Support shortcuts saved with older versions of Spectacle
- Spectacle would not work with certain windows
New in Spectacle 1.0 (Aug 31, 2015)
- Improved handling of windows with restricted dimensions
- Better support for windows in fullscreen mode
- Fix shortcut validation when trying to duplicate an already in use default shortcut
- Temporarily disable Spectacle for an hour or until Spectacle is relaunched
- Manually disable Spectacle for specific applications
New in Spectacle 0.8.10 (Apr 21, 2015)
- Provides the following improvements:
- Consistent behavior when moving a window from 1/2 to 1/3 and finally 2/3 of a display.
- Improve support for moving windows between thirds of the display.
- Fix quantized window (e.g. Terminal, iTerm 2, etc.) movement.
New in Spectacle 0.8.9 (Apr 17, 2015)
- Better looking status menu icon
- French and Italian localizations
- Preliminary support for function keys as shortcuts
- Remove the 1px gap that can sometimes appear on the top edge of the display
- Resize windows to 1/2, 2/3, and 1/3 the height of the display
New in Spectacle 0.8.8 (Oct 29, 2014)
- Remove Mail from the application blacklist
New in Spectacle 0.8.6 (Oct 22, 2014)
- Provides the following improvements:
- Move windows to external displays in a consistent arrangement
- Disable Spectacle when the preferences window is in focus
- Update status bar icon to look correct in Yosemite
- Improve support for resizing quantized windows (e.g. Terminal, iTerm, etc.)
- Important Note: Spectacle requires OS X 10.7 or better. Those still using OS X 10.6 should skip this update and continue to use the 0.7 release of Spectacle.
New in Spectacle 0.8.5 (Jun 19, 2014)
- Restore default keyboard shortcuts
- Move windows with the mouse through the status menu
- Improved support for sheets
- Improved support for moving windows between thirds
New in Spectacle 0.8.4 (Oct 31, 2013)
- Stop crashing when opening Spectacle's preferences window on 10.7
New in Spectacle 0.8.2 (Apr 26, 2013)
- Spectacle would crash when attempting to undo/redo a window action if the window has already been closed (issue #103)
New in Spectacle 0.8.1 (Feb 9, 2013)
- Spectacle would crash when trying to open the preferences window (issue #94)
- Important Note: Spectacle now requires OS X 10.7 or better. Those still using OS X 10.6 should skip this update and continue to use the previous Spectacle release.
New in Spectacle 0.8 (Feb 7, 2013)
- Do not resize or move windows that already fill the dimensions of the current screen (issue #57)
- Make it possible to blacklist applications that don't work well with Spectacle (issue #77)
- Add "Adobe Reader" to the application blacklist (issue #77)
- Moving a window backwards between thirds of the display does not always work (issue #93)
- Increase and/or decrease the size of arbitrary windows (issue #42)
- Windows should "stick" to the edges of the screen they touch when resizing (issue #92)
New in Spectacle 0.7 (Oct 25, 2012)
- Provides the following change and enhancement:
- Move windows between external displays with only two simple hot keys (instead of four)
- Move windows between thirds of the current display
New in Spectacle 0.6.10 (Oct 1, 2012)
- Fixes:
- Moving a window to a different display would always maximize it
- Display an error when trying to set a hot key that Spectacle is already using
New in Spectacle 0.6.7 (Feb 29, 2012)
- Fixes the following issue:
- Better support for windows with restricted dimensions
- This release also includes the following enhancement:
- Increased window movement history
New in Spectacle 0.6.6 (Jan 4, 2012)
- Fixes the following two issues:
- Translating hot keys with certain input sources caused Spectacle to crash
- Moving windows did not always work properly in Lion
New in Spectacle 0.6.5 (Dec 21, 2011)
- Contains a fix that allows people to actually run Spectacle in the menu bar after running it in the background.
New in Spectacle 0.6.4 (Dec 19, 2011)
- Includes support for the App Store and a revisited user experience.
New in Spectacle 0.6.1 (Dec 10, 2011)
- Hot key recorders provide no validation (issue #3)
New in Spectacle 0.5.4 (Nov 22, 2011)
- Unable to permanently disable window actions (issue #24)
- System Preferences crashes when attempting to draw the toggle switch (issue #27)
New in Spectacle 0.5.3 (Nov 19, 2011)
- fix for automatic updates
New in Spectacle 0.5.1 (Jun 10, 2011)
- Quick enhancement for resizing centered windows
New in Spectacle 0.5 (Apr 6, 2011)
- Basic enhancements to the user interface.