Skyland

Skyland Personal computing

Your Mac.
Your space.

A Hyprland-inspired desktop experience for macOS. Window management, fluid animations and a liquid interface. A personal cyberspace built around the way I work.

Explore Skyland View on GitHub

brew install waxdred/tap/skyland

Skyland on macOS: dwindle tiling with fastfetch, Neovim and btop in Ghostty, the focused window bordered in the theme accent, skylandbar in Liquid Glass on top.
Real screenshot — Skyland 0.5 on macOS Sequoia.
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01 / Window management

A different way to use your Mac.

Skyland brings a Hyprland-inspired workflow to macOS, combining tiling, workspaces, window groups and fluid transitions. It is a fork of AeroSpace: everything AeroSpace does stays, with what makes Hyprland feel like Hyprland on top.

  1. 01

    Dwindle & smart split

    New windows split the focused tile on the side of the cursor. alt j toggles the split, alt + drag swaps tiles.

  2. 02

    Window groups

    alt g turns a container into tabs with a tabs bar on top; alt n cycles through them.

  3. 03

    Scratchpads & rules

    alt s slides a scratchpad over the layout. Window rules float, size or send apps to a workspace.

Everything else Skyland does
  • Workspaces on cmd 1…0, trackpad swipe between them, overview on cmd ↑
  • Master layout per workspace, swap with the master
  • Hyprland animations: presets or bezier lines pasted from a hyprland.conf
  • Window decoration: rounded corners, active / inactive opacity, dim, focused border
  • 43PR themes as CSS files, colors generated from the wallpaper
  • Binding modes (Hyprland submaps) with a HUD of their keys
  • Settings window, key recorder and rules editor, applied live
  • Window switcher, wallpaper picker, lock screen, media widget
All keybindings
Read the source on GitHub

Schematic illustration, eased with Skyland's default windows-bezier = 0.05, 0.9, 0.1, 1.0.

Workspaces

One space per state of mind.

Code, web, system, media: each workspace keeps its windows and its layout. cmd 1…0 jumps there; with the trackpad, the windows follow your fingers.

nvim — overview.swift
ghostty
ghostty — git log

Above: an illustration. Below: the real workspace overview, cmd ↑ — every workspace as a glass card with its windows in place.

Skyland workspace overview: a Liquid Glass strip of twelve workspace cards with app icons and live thumbnails, over the zoomed out windows and a sunset wallpaper.

02 / Interface design

Interfaces that feel alive.

This is where macOS elegance meets the motion language of Hyprland.

01 Focus

A window becomes active. Its border lights up in the theme accent, the others dim and step back.

02 Motion

A window rezzes into the layout through a scan line — the cyberspace preset — while another shrinks away.

03 Glass

A translucent panel unfolds above the desktop. The background blurs, the highlights shift, and the content arrives in a clear hierarchy.

Site accent

These three accents belong to this website. Skyland itself ships the 43PR themes (Catppuccin, Nord, Tokyo Night, Rosé Pine…) and can build its colors from your wallpaper. Its panels come in three styles: metal, Liquid Glass, and glyph — black, white dots and one red, with the glyph-dark and glyph-light themes.

Window switcher in Liquid Glass: recent windows of every workspace with live thumbnails.
Window switcher, alt `
Wallpaper picker in Liquid Glass: a strip of wallpaper thumbnails over the desktop.
Wallpaper picker, alt w
Volume popup in the glyph style: Skyland's icon, a speaker, a row of dots and the value in a dot matrix font.
Volume popup, glyph style
Brightness popup in Liquid Glass: Skyland's icon, a sun, a bar in the theme accent and the value.
Brightness popup, Liquid Glass — in place of macOS', where you drag it

03 / System experience

The system, reimagined.

SkylandBar extends the desktop with a macOS-like system bar in Liquid Glass. It speaks SketchyBar's language, so existing configs and plugins run unchanged.

SkylandBar: Liquid Glass workspace buttons with their apps on the left, the notch in the middle, glass status capsules for date, keyboard, mail, battery and volume on the right.

The bar is a real screenshot; the popup below it is an illustration of a glass popup.

  • Liquid Glass

    Items, groups and popups in glass: Apple's on macOS 26, a refraction shader on older versions. A selection lens flows between workspaces. Or flat and dotted, with the glyph theme.

  • Skyland built in

    Workspaces with their apps, the focused window title, modes — read from Skyland's socket, no script to wire.

  • Windows below it

    The bar tells Skyland its height. No value to keep in sync, and a TOML config reloaded live.

SkylandBar on GitHub

04 / Cyberspace tools

Your personal cyberdeck.

An apps launcher, a messages panel and a HUD with live system data — the cyberpunk side of the same universe, bound to the keys you already use.

skyland-cyberdeck on GitHub
alt-d

Apps launcher

A see-through “eye implant” deck: a curved column of apps, type to search.

alt-shift-m

Messages

Notification Center history and script messages as neon contact cards.

alt-shift-d

HUD

Clock, calendar, connections, CPU, RAM, network, battery and herdr agents.

api

Scripting

skyland-cyberdeck notify -t TITLE -b BODY
skyland-cyberdeck list --json
Cyberdeck apps launcher: a translucent curved column of app icons.
Apps launcher
Cyberdeck messages panel: notifications shown as neon contact cards.
Messages panel

The ecosystem

One universe, three pieces.

Skyland The window management experience. Tiling, workspaces, groups, animations and Liquid Glass panels. github.com/waxdred/skyland SkylandBar A refined system bar. github.com/waxdred/skylandBar Skyland Cyberdeck A personal interface for applications and messages. github.com/waxdred/skyland-cyberdeck

Built for the curious

Built, not bought.

A personal experiment in reshaping the macOS experience — one window, one animation and one idea at a time.

Skyland settings window: decoration sliders (rounding, opacity, dim, border width, Ghostty blur) and animation settings with the cyberspace preset.
Settings window, alt i — applied live, comments in the config kept.
  1. inspiration

    Hyprland, on a Mac

    Dwindle, groups, submaps and bezier lines come straight from Hyprland; the look from the 43PR dotfiles.

  2. motion

    Animations stepped by hand

    A scripting addition in the Dock steps window transforms and alpha every 8 ms. The animation engine has its own browser lab.

  3. native

    Exploring macOS internals

    Private SkyLight signatures recovered by reverse engineering the dyld shared cache. How it works.

  4. yours

    Personalisation first

    A config file, live settings, recorded keys, per-app rules, themes as CSS.

  5. coherence

    One environment

    Window manager, bar and cyberdeck share the same glass, the same accent and the same socket. Changelog.

Explore the source.

Skyland is an evolving open-source project. Explore the code, follow the progress and help shape the experience.

brew install waxdred/tap/skyland && skyland install
Explore the repository Star on GitHub Read the documentation