Relaunch amethyst with a hotkey

[travs]

I had a look through the issues but couldn't find anything with this suggestion, so apologies if it's already been covered.

I find my self often having to relaunch amethyst from the menu, for example, when I "un-minimize" an application's window. Would be easier if there was a keyboard-driven way to do this.

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[JasonJAyalaP]

+1
I constantly relaunch because of firefox. It's ironic that there's no way to keep my tiling window manager working without the mouse!

[sdvim]

+1

[gwerbin]

+1

In the meantime, it seems like this is possible with AppleScript

[yusefnapora]

Yeah, this would be great. It's also possible with a one-liner bash script:

#!/bin/bash

killall Amethyst && open -a Amethyst

save that somewhere (I put mine in ~/bin/relaunch-amethyst) and make it executable with chmod +x <filename>. Then you can bind it to a keystroke with your favorite tool.

[gwerbin]

Good call. Could use Karabiner/Seil for that

[JasonJAyalaP]

Thank you, yusefnapora! Good temporary solution. I just created an Alfred workflow.

Relaunch Amethyst.alfredworkflow.zip

[erikw]

This is a problem for me too as I use an external monitor which I connect/disconnect several times per day. Quite often Amethyst don't keep up to speed, especially by maximizing windows. Thus I need to relaunch the application manually.

• Best solution: Amethyst is snappier to resize windows
• Intermediation solution: keyboard shortcut for Amethyst menu bar icon > Relaunch Amethyst

Workaround with Applescript in Automator (from @gwerbin's answer)

on run {input, parameters}
	tell application "System Events" to tell process "Amethyst"
		tell menu bar item 1 of menu bar 1
			click
			click menu item "Relaunch Amethyst" of menu 1
		end tell
	end tell
	
	return input
end run