Summary
Vorssaint 3.1.7 adds the quick panel, a floating hub that opens anywhere with
one shortcut and holds your favorite tools, lets a click on the Dock icon
minimize an app's windows, adds a real middle click for the trackpad, saves
copied images and files in Clipboard History, and adds four new tools: copy
text from screen, color picker, mute microphone and paste as plain text. It
also adds Russian and Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong and Taiwan), completes
the window layout shortcuts, organizes the panel Controls into categories,
improves Debounce, keeps Monitor lighter on battery, steadies the RAM menu
bar metric, makes Quit on close safer when switching Desktop spaces, makes
mouse scroll inversion more reliable and improves Dock Preview, menu bar icon
recovery and App Switcher previews.
Added
- The quick panel: press the shortcut (^⌘V) anywhere and a small floating
panel appears with your favorite tools, one click or key away: Keep Awake,
mute microphone, copy text from screen, color picker, Clipboard, window
layout, Cleaning Mode, Homebrew, Media, Clean URL and the Uninstaller.
Every tool opens and runs inside the panel itself. Fully customizable in
place: hide, bring back and drag tools around, with arrow-key navigation
and 1 to 9 opening items directly. - Clicking the Dock icon of the app you are using can now minimize its
windows, like traditional taskbars. Off by default, next to Dock Preview in
Settings. - Middle click on the trackpad: pressing with three fingers now works like a
mouse wheel click. Only a real press counts, so taps, swipes and resting
fingers never trigger it, and accidental double clicks from tap-to-click
are filtered out. While the macOS three-finger drag gesture is enabled it
owns three-finger touches, so the middle click waits and Settings explains
how to free the gesture. Off by default, in the Mouse tab in Settings. - Clipboard history now saves copied images and files alongside text. Images
show a thumbnail and paste back as images; files are remembered as links to
their location and paste back as the files themselves. Both can be pinned,
searched and reordered like any text item, and a new toggle in the Clipboard
settings turns this off. - Copy text from screen: select any area and the text in it is recognized
offline and copied, ready to paste. In the panel and in the new Quick tools
page in Settings, with an optional global shortcut. - Color picker: grab the color of any pixel with the system loupe and copy it
as HEX, RGB, HSL or SwiftUI code. In the panel and in Quick tools. - Mute microphone: one click or a global shortcut cuts the Mac's input in
every app, and the muted state survives switching input devices. - Paste as plain text: an optional shortcut pastes what you copied without
colors, fonts or formatting, and the original formatting stays on the
clipboard for later pastes. In the Clipboard settings. - Window layout shortcuts now cover every action. Next Display, thirds and
two-thirds join the existing halves, quarters, maximize, center and restore,
and each action row in Settings has its own shortcut recorder. - Russian is now available throughout the app, thanks to Artur.
- Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong and Taiwan) is now available throughout the
app, thanks to Jensen.
Changed
- Vorssaint now updates on a weekly rhythm so every feature arrives better
tested and more polished; critical fixes still ship right away. The short
note shown after updating explains it and links to where previews of
upcoming features are posted. - The menu panel is cleaner and keeps layout options in Settings.
- The Controls section in the panel is now organized into collapsible
categories with an at-a-glance count of what is on, so it stays short as
features grow. Dock click to minimize and the trackpad middle click are now
right there too, next to everything else.
Fixed
- Debounce is more responsive while filtering duplicate key presses.
- Monitor uses much less energy while showing live menu bar metrics.
- The RAM metric in the menu bar no longer blinks during brief monitor refresh gaps.
- Quit on close no longer treats Desktop space switching as closing an app window.
- Mouse scroll inversion now works with more external mouse wheels, and no
longer cancels itself out on mice that report smooth, pixel-precise
scrolling. Toggling it now visibly changes direction for those mice too. - Monitor now wakes only when the next reading is due while the panel is
closed and only slow metrics are shown, instead of waking every refresh
just to skip the work. - The menu bar icon recovery can bring the icon back after macOS keeps it hidden.
- App Switcher window thumbnails no longer look skewed while Stage Manager is
on. Windows parked in the Stage Manager strip get an upright preview right
away and a sharper one as soon as they become active. - Longer descriptions in the panel and in Settings are no longer cut off
mid-sentence, in every language.
Signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it downloads and opens normally. Requires macOS 14 or later. Open the .dmg below and drag Vorssaint to Applications.