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Circulate through spaces on macOS 11
Back in the days of OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard, one could circulate from the last space to the first space, e.g. if one was on the last space and used the keyboard shortcut to go to the next space, it would bring you to the first space.
I asked a similar question for Mavericks at https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/152768/cycle-through-spaces-in-mavericks , however TotalSpaces2 no longer works on macOS 11 (Big Sur). There is a test version for TotalSpaces3 which mostly works on macOS 11, but it is a bit fragile (frequent crashes).
Is there any other way to bring circulation through spaces back to macOS 11?
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Another approach is to use Karabiner-Elements.
As a first step, I created to executable shell scripts, which will switch to the previous/next space using the handy tool SpaceInfo
Space_prev:
#!/bin/zsh
export CurrentSpace=$(/Applications/SpaceInfo/SpaceInfo --active-space)
export AllSpaces=$(/Applications/SpaceInfo/SpaceInfo --total-spaces)
export NextSpace=$(($CurrentSpace-1))
if [[ $NextSpace = 0 ]] then
export NextSpace=$AllSpaces
fi
osascript -ss - $NextSpace <<EOF
on run argv
tell application "System Events" to key code 17 + (item 1 of argv) using control down
end run
EOF
Space_next:
#!/bin/zsh
export CurrentSpace=$(/Applications/SpaceInfo/SpaceInfo --active-space)
export AllSpaces=$(/Applications/SpaceInfo/SpaceInfo --total-spaces)
export NextSpace=$(($CurrentSpace+1))
if [[ $NextSpace = $(($AllSpaces+1)) ]] then
export NextSpace=1
fi
osascript -ss - $NextSpace <<EOF
on run argv
tell application "System Events" to key code 17 + (item 1 of argv) using control down
end run
EOF
Then I'm using Karabiner-Elements to set up keyboard shortcuts which will execute these two scripts:
{
"description": "Next space",
"manipulators": [
{
"from": {
"key_code": "right_arrow",
"modifiers": {
"mandatory": [
"command"
]
}
},
"to": [
{
"shell_command": "/bin/zsh Space_next"
}
],
"type": "basic"
}
]
},
{
"description": "Prev space",
"manipulators": [
{
"from": {
"key_code": "left_arrow",
"modifiers": {
"mandatory": [
"command"
]
}
},
"to": [
{
"shell_command": "/bin/zsh Space_prev"
}
],
"type": "basic"
}
]
}
Caveats:
-
this answer assumes that
cmd+numberis the shortcut to go to the space of a specific number. If you use another shortcut, you'll need to adjust the code accordingly -
the animation when cycling between last/first might look counter intuitive. Switching off all animation with the "reduced motion" option from system preferences might be a solution
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One possibility is to use Hammerspoon with the following configuration:
hs.hotkey.bind({ "cmd" }, "Right", function()
local NextSpace = 1
for k, v in pairs(hs.spaces.allSpaces()[hs.screen.mainScreen():getUUID()]) do
if v == hs.spaces.focusedSpace() then
NextSpace = k
end
end
NextSpace = NextSpace+1
if (NextSpace == (#hs.spaces.allSpaces()[hs.screen.mainScreen():getUUID()]+1)) then
NextSpace = 1
end
hs.eventtap.keyStroke({ "control" }, string.format("%d", NextSpace))
end)
hs.hotkey.bind({ "cmd" }, "Left", function()
local PrevSpace = 1
for k, v in pairs(hs.spaces.allSpaces()[hs.screen.mainScreen():getUUID()]) do
if v == hs.spaces.focusedSpace() then
PrevSpace = k
end
end
PrevSpace = PrevSpace - 1
if (PrevSpace == 0) then
PrevSpace = #hs.spaces.allSpaces()[hs.screen.mainScreen():getUUID()]
end
hs.eventtap.keyStroke({ "control" }, string.format("%d", PrevSpace))
end)
In case one would also like to use mouse/trackpad gestures to circulate through spaces, one can use this newly defined Hammerspoon shortcut in Jitouch
Caveats:
-
this answer assumes that
cmd+numberis the shortcut to go to the space of a specific number. If you use another shortcut, you'll need to adjust the code accordingly -
the animation when cycling between last/first might look counter intuitive. Switching off all animation with the "reduced motion" option from system preferences might be a solution
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