Setup guide

Up and gliding in two minutes.

Everything from download to your first strip. You’ll need macOS 14 or later · Apple silicon & Intel.
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Install

Open the download link from your order email, open the file, and drag Glidrow into your Applications folder. Glidrow is signed and notarised by Apple, so it opens without warnings.

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Allow Accessibility

The first time you open Glidrow, it walks you through one permission. macOS only lets apps move other apps’ windows with it.

  1. Click Open System Settings in Glidrow’s welcome window.
  2. In Privacy & Security › Accessibility, switch on Glidrow.
  3. Glidrow notices straight away and moves to the next step.

Privacy & Security › Accessibility

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Pick a default column width

Choose how wide new columns start — ⅓, ½ or ⅔ of the screen. You can change any column later with ⌃⌥R.

Default column width

⅓½⅔
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Activate your license

Paste the key from your email — it looks like GLID-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX. That’s it: you’ll see This Mac is activated. Your activated Macs are listed in Settings › License.

License key

GLID-7Q2M-K8XR-4TZN
This Mac is activated
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Find the mascot in your menu bar

Glidrow lives in your menu bar. The little mascot shows which column you’re on — 3/5 means column 3 of 5. Click it for every control: widths, layouts, displays, focus effects and Pause.

3/5Wed 9:41
3/5 = column 3 of 5. Click it for every control.

Learn four shortcuts

  • ⌃⌥→ / ← — focus the next or previous column
  • ⌃⌥R — cycle the column width ⅓ · ½ · ⅔
  • ⌃⌥M — strip overview
  • ⌃⌥1–4 — jump to a column

Every shortcut can be changed in Settings › Shortcuts.

Set up trackpad gestures

Glidrow’s three-finger swipe moves between columns, but macOS uses three fingers for Spaces by default. Give those to four fingers instead:

  1. Open System Settings › Trackpad › More Gestures.
  2. Set Swipe between full-screen applications to four fingers.
  3. Set Mission Control to four fingers too.
  4. In Glidrow’s Settings › Gestures, check that Three-finger swipe is on. You can also turn on Four-finger pinch for the overview and pick a scroll speed.
Prefer two fingers? Hold ⌥ and scroll to slide the whole strip — when you let go, Glidrow focuses the column nearest the middle.

Make it yours

  • Workspaces — set up a strip you like, then save it in Settings › Workspaces. Each workspace gets a shortcut — ⌃⌥5 to 9 and 0 — that brings it back.
  • App rules — choose per app whether it tiles, floats or is ignored, and its default width.
  • Focus effects — dim (light, medium or strong) and blur everything except the window you’re working in.
  • Move to a new Mac — export your layouts and rules from Settings › General and import them on the other Mac.

Something not working?

The support page covers permissions, gestures and apps that won’t resize. Or email support@glidrow.com.

Still need help?

A real person answers every email, usually within one working day.

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