Show HN: A terminal glued to the macOS dock

(github.com)

48 points | by leopalamim 1 day ago

9 comments

  • Maphielbso 1 day ago
    Original idea, I like it. Can you expand it vertically in order to show larger chunks of output if needed?
    • leopalamim 1 day ago
      i thought about it, but starboard is glued to the dock. I'm thinking of two alternatives: (1) make it expand as needed; (2) a button to open a terminal/ghostty window.

      what use case are you thinking for starboard? running agents?

    • leopalamim 1 day ago
      hey Maphielbso, now Cmd+E expands it to 100% height when you need to see larger chunks, and btw I started running my agents in starboard because of this... nice call. Cmd+E snaps it back to dock height
    • nottorp 1 day ago
      Isn’t it the quake console but desktop wide?

      Not that I dislike it.

      • leopalamim 1 day ago
        it's a nice framing, it's the same family, but think of starboard as a quake console that's never dismissed and never steals focus, glued to the dock in a way that doesn't interfere with anything else, an now expands for longer processes (i.e. running agents) thanks to your feedbacks
  • marshallku 18 hours ago
    Seems cool, does it supports dock on the left side? I always place dock in the left side
    • leopalamim 17 hours ago
      hey marshallku, it does support. download the newest version. when dock is on the left, starboard defaults to the bottom right corner, same for right side dock and auto hide. what kind of commands are you most using?
  • leopalamim 20 hours ago
    starboard currently assumes a bottom dock and 1 monitor. how many of you use left/right dock placement, multi-monitor, and auto-hide? how is your setup? working on improvements in whatever order you guys need
  • leopalamim 1 day ago
    got some people using starboard so some updates:

    (1) starboard now expands to full height, you can run agents and longer processes now

    (2) starboard is now also a downloadable app, macOS will warn the dev can't be verified because it's ad-hoc signed, just hit privacy & security -> open anyway, step by step in the README.md

    (3) source is still there if you want to read it yourself and build

  • toplinesoftsys 1 day ago
    I love it. No need to deal with windows just for the sake of one or two commands.
    • leopalamim 1 day ago
      that's the motivation, how are you using it?
  • j_aime 1 day ago
    Nice! This is pretty inventive.
    • leopalamim 1 day ago
      tks! are you using it for any use case?
  • caiocmpaes 1 day ago
    Nice idea!
    • leopalamim 1 day ago
      tks! are you using it for any use case?
  • NelsonGr 7 hours ago
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