Beyond launching

Both of these are off by default, and both need the Accessibility grant. They share one grant and one set of observers, so turning both on costs one approval, not two.

A window switcher, not an app switcher

Pounce ships an MRU window switcher: tap the chord to bounce to your last window even on another workspace, hold it and keep tapping to walk older ones, or type while holding to fuzzy-filter. It moves by window, so two Ghostty windows are two rows.

{
  "windows": {
    "enabled": true,
    "key": "tab",
    "modifiers": ["cmd"]
  }
}

Inside haus that is haus.pounce.windowSwitcher, where it defaults on.

With a tiling window manager, rows gather by workspace under a header each, and focusing goes through aerospace focus --window-id so a window parked elsewhere surfaces properly. One deliberate wrinkle: a bare tap-and-release skips the workspace you're on and lands on the most recent window on a different one: with two windows tiled side by side, the most recent is one you're already looking at, so landing there wouldn't be a switch. The skipped siblings are still the rows right below you.

launchctl kickstart -k "gui/$(id -u)/com.hausfold.pounce"

Quit an app when its last window closes

macOS keeps an app running after you close its last window. If your muscle memory is from Windows, that's a ⌘Q you forgot every time.

{
  "autoQuit": {
    "enabled": true,
    "delay": 2,
    "exclude": ["com.apple.finder"]
  }
}

In haus: haus.pounce.autoQuit.enable, off by default.

Asked, not killed: the same Quit event ⌘Q sends, so unsaved work puts up its sheet and stays open.

The delay is load-bearing. delay (2s, clamped 0.25–3600) is what tells "I'm done with this app" apart from "close this window, open another," which is what a browser does on ⌘N.

exclude replaces the default, it doesn't extend it. Out of the box it is ["com.apple.finder"], since Finder is the one app macOS runs windowless by design. Name anything else and you have dropped Finder from the list.

The whole autoQuit block is startup-only too, so any edit inside it needs the daemon restart above, not just flipping enabled.