Hyprland-class tiling — dwindle splits, a master-centre layout built for ultrawides, drag-to-resize bento bars, focus-follows-mouse — wrapped in a working LCARS console: the frame around your windows lists them, switches workspaces, and reads out live CPU, memory, Wi-Fi and SSD telemetry. It is chrome that does something.
On the bridge
Zil running a real desk — a 49″ Odyssey G9 at 5120×1440, master-centre layout, the rail listing the crew, sensors live in the frame.
Download
Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple — Gatekeeper opens it without warnings.
Zil needs the Accessibility permission to move and resize other apps' windows; it never asks for anything else.
First run writes ~/.config/zil/zil.toml and takes over from there.
Systems
Bento tiling
Dwindle BSP with Hyprland semantics, plus a master-centre layout that puts your main work in the middle of a 32:9 desk. Drag the orange bars; neighbours follow.
Nine workspaces
Per display, instant switching — no animation tax. ⌃⌥⌘1–9 to go, ⇧ to move a window, a clickable 1–9 strip on the rail. Layouts persist per workspace.
Tile profiles
Dial in an arrangement, save it under a name, recall it exactly — windows matched by app identity, so profiles survive relaunches and reboots.
Ship themes
Daystrom, Enterprise-D, Enterprise-E, Titan, Voyager — one keystroke rotates the whole console. Red alert mode pulses every surface in phase.
Live sensors
Per-core CPU bars, memory pressure, Wi-Fi signal, SSD free space — in the frame itself. The LCARS is instrumentation, not wallpaper.
Web panels
Chromeless site tiles with persistent logins — Claude, Google Messages — plus LCARS·TV, a YouTube tile with volume and playlist hotkeys.
Focus follows mouse
Point at a tile, it's focused. No click, no raise-flicker, and it politely stands down while menus are open or you're dragging.
Self-healing
A hung app never hangs the desk — every app gets its own actor thread. Drifted windows are guided back; stubborn ones get circuit-broken, not fought.
Config as text
One TOML file, hot-reloaded, with per-machine profiles: your 49″ desk and your 13″ Air each get fitting gaps and chrome from the same config.
Hotkeys
| ⌃⌥⌘ T / R / G | toggle layout · retile · toggle gaps |
| ⌃⌥⌘ J / K | focus next / previous — ⇧ swaps instead |
| ⌃⌥⌘ 1–9 | go to workspace — ⇧ moves the window there |
| ⌃⌥⌘ ⇧S / ⇧R | quick-save / recall a tile profile |
| ⌃⌥⌘ ] / A | next ship theme · red alert |
| ⌃⌥⌘ Space | next wallpaper |
| ⌃⌥⌘ X / W | float ⇄ tile this app · close window |
| ⌃⌥⌘ V / P | LCARS·TV · web panels |
Every binding is also in the menu-bar console, grouped LCARS-style. A remappable Hyper key is on the roadmap.
Config
One file. Saving it reflows your desk in half a second; an invalid file is refused and the last good one stays live. Zil writes its own changes — theme, TV, exemptions — back into it, preserving your comments.
# ~/.config/zil/zil.toml [theme] name = "Daystrom" # Enterprise-D · Enterprise-E · Titan · Voyager [gaps] inner = 9 outer = 18 [[rule]] bundle = "com.apple.iCal" action = "workspace 3" [[profile]] # the 13-inch laptop gets tighter chrome match = { display_count = 1 } gaps = { inner = 5, outer = 10 } chrome = { side_rail_width = 118 }