Rectangle

rectangle

A window management app for macOS based on Spectacle, written in Swift.

Detected by com.knollsoft.Rectangle | macOS |rectangleapp.com

Sync it rectangle.toml

Sync rules

What travels, what stays, what never leaves

Rectangle in your home directory Every rule on this page, by file

· ~/Library/Preferences/com.knollsoft.Rectangle.plist Sync

Only what the catalog names. A directory that syncs brings everything inside it except what is listed as excluded here.

apps/rectangle.tomlThe file this page is generated from

id = "rectangle"

name = "Rectangle"

homepage = "https://rectangleapp.com"

description = "A window management app for macOS based on Spectacle, written in Swift."

# The app icon its own site publishes; the 2x file beside it is too large to

# cache.

icon = "https://rectangleapp.com/assets/images/mac512pts1x.png"

# Rectangle ships no command-line tool, so `detect` carries the bundle

# identifier. It is the one the app's own README uses — `defaults delete

# com.knollsoft.Rectangle`, `tccutil reset All com.knollsoft.Rectangle` — and

# the Homebrew cask quits the same identifier

# (https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask/rectangle.json).

detect = ["com.knollsoft.Rectangle"]

platforms = ["macos"]

# README.md, "Configuration file location": "The configuration for Rectangle is

# stored using NSUserDefaults, meaning it is stored in the following location:

# ~/Library/Preferences/com.knollsoft.Rectangle.plist". That is the [preferences]

# base directory, and this entry is macOS-only, so there is no other platform

# for it to stand for.

# ~/Library/Application Support/Rectangle is deliberately left out. The same

# README describes it as an inbox rather than a store: "Upon launch, Rectangle

# will load a config file at

# ~/Library/Application Support/Rectangle/RectangleConfig.json if it is present

# and will rename that file with a time/date stamp so that it isn't read on

# subsequent launches." A file the app renames out of the way after reading it

# once is not where the configuration lives.

paths = ["[preferences]/com.knollsoft.Rectangle.plist"]

# The remaining home locations in the cask's zap stanza are caches and WebKit

# state (~/Library/Caches/com.knollsoft.Rectangle,

# ~/Library/HTTPStorages/com.knollsoft.Rectangle,

# ~/Library/WebKit/com.knollsoft.Rectangle), none of them under the path above.

exclude = []

# No credential: Rectangle is free and open source, and the domain holds window

# actions, their keyboard shortcuts and the snap-area settings.

secret = []

# No machine_lines: the shortcuts, gaps and snap behaviour are the whole reason

# to carry the domain. macOS property lists have no matcher in this schema

# anyway — `format` covers toml, yaml and json only — so a plist entry is paths

# and nothing else.

Use it with your dotfile manager

Same data, in the shape your tool already reads

Opens Otty and adds this tool to what it syncs

Opens otty://sync/add/rectangle. Otty ships with this catalog, so the link only has to name the tool — nothing is downloaded.

Every one of these is generated from the same rules as this page.