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  • Nice idea!
    by caiocmpaes
  • tks! are you using it for any use case?
    by leopalamim
  • Nice! This is pretty inventive.
    by j_aime
  • tks! are you using it for any use case?
    by leopalamim
  • I love it. No need to deal with windows just for the sake of one or two commands.
    by toplinesoftsys
  • that's the motivation, how are you using it?
    by leopalamim
  • 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
    by leopalamim
  • Seems cool, does it supports dock on the left side? I always place dock in the left side
    by marshallku
  • 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?
    by leopalamim
  • 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

    by leopalamim
  • Original idea, I like it. Can you expand it vertically in order to show larger chunks of output if needed?
    by Maphielbso
  • Isn’t it the quake console but desktop wide?

    Not that I dislike it.

    by nottorp
  • 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
    by leopalamim
  • 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?

    by leopalamim
  • Great tried the Starboard.zip, opened in Dock, after given permission. it works. some caveats Cmd+E expands hight, but not width. also default width is may be around 4 to 5 characters. It think it may be related to auto hide property of dock. mine is MacBook Pro (macOS Tahoe version 26.5.1)

    My workflow as of today is open a terminal at documents/claude_mac_master folder , with Claude Code cli. always running. this is my master for all frequent tasks.

    frequent commands I use on that. - 1. open vscode for project with name (it searches and finds the matching folder and then opens the vscode, then onwards it remembers my top 10 projects or folders working on ), 2. move the recently downloaded images to right folder. 3. create a new experimental project with following vision, in the right folder, open it in cmux (another agentic terminal) , with vision.md so that I will continue to work on that. 4. check disk sizes, and any cleanup.

    would like to run the any cli agent in this terminal with default operations.

    by prabhanjana_c
  • prabhanjana_c,

    we now have a min-width for starboard, which will sit above the dock when it's too wide.

    make sure to comment your use case or even contribute in the project

    by leopalamim
  • hey prabhanjana_c, thanks for the feedback.

    new release: a new 0.8.2 version was released and starboard now expands ignoring the dock and centering itself on the screen. it still sits above apps though.

    the default width you're experiencing is most likely because your dock is wide. if you want more room in the default starboard, i'd recommend reducing dock's height and removing apps you don't naturally open from the dock. starboard will automatically resize itself and have more room.

    the new expanded version might help you now. however, for your workflow, i'd recommend using starboard for fast ambient stuff (open VS Code for project X, sort downloads, quick disk check...) and a real terminal for claude code sessions.

    i use claude code on starboard though and it persists across desktops which helps.

    tell me how you feel about the new change and what other use cases you're using starboard for

    by leopalamim