Spectacle: Move windows between Spaces

[eczarny]

Spectacle should be able to move windows between Spaces.

[eczarny]

Initial support for this enhancement can be found under the enhancements/issue-15 branch (https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle/tree/enhancements/issue-15).

[danquah]

Any change we will get this feature? It seems to be tricky to implement as most other products like spectacle are also missing it.

[eczarny]

I don't think so. It isn't something that is easy to implement and I just don't have the time to focus on it. Perhaps somebody else who really wants this feature could take a crack at it?

[danquah]

Thats fair :)

[kevintuhumury]

I would love to have this in Spectacle! I'm currently using SizeUp and the lack of this feature is basically why I'm still using it.

[simonweil]

+1

[nybblr]

+1 my last daily workflow snag =)

[kvcrawford]

:+1: I'm also hanging onto SizeUp because of this critical feature, I would love to use an open source product instead!

[vuduchild]

+1

[felciano]

+1

[lingz]

+1

[jtomaszewski]

+1
Is there any way to achieve this on Mavericks now (10.9.3) ?
SizeUp doesnt work for me. Slate authors (https://github.com/jigish/slate/issues/78) seems like they are having problem with this also.

[eczarny]

This has been a particularly challenging feature to add. As mentioned in the Slate thread, there just isn't an "official" way to support a feature like this. I'd like to avoid relying on private APIs, and the other "solutions" are awkward and provide a poor user experience.

I plan on keeping this issue open with the hope that someday Apple makes a feature like this possible.

[lhlmgr]

+1 pls

[treeder]

+1, also using SizeUp for this.

[cristeahub]

Any news on this lately? I too am currently using SizeUp for this reason. Maybe private APIs or hacks to make this possible isn't such a bad idea after all? Seems like a lot of people want this feature after all.

[dnlek]

+1

[nadim7]

+1

[lukeadams]

There's a keyboard shortcut to move a window b/w spaces by default in OSX:
-Grab and hold the top
-[ctrl] + [left or right arrow key]
I don't have enough knowledge of Spectacle to dive in and implement it, but it seems relatively simple to do with the accessibility API.

[raldred]

:+1:

[lukeadams]

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spaces.plist has perfectly formatted information for spaces by monitor!

[lukeadams]

If anybody is interested in implementing it, here is a good writeup using the KB+mouse method I mentioned above.

[amaltson]

This was closed but is it closed as won't implement?

[eczarny]

Correct. This isn't something I intend to build into Spectacle.

[nonameolsson]

I really would like to see this. I switched from Sizeup to Spectacle. But now I think that I will have to switch back. Great app though, like it more than SizeUp.

[Tritlo]

Why do you not want to implement this? IMO this would be a killer feature, especially on machines with small screens. Being able to group them by workspaces is great, as evidenced by XMonad, i3 and Unity on Linux.

[kas]

@eczarny I appreciate you making this project. Moving windows between spaces without mouse is one of my only gripes with OS X. Voicing my support for this feature.

This may be the private API @eczarny is talking about:
http://code.google.com/p/undocumented-goodness/source/browse/trunk/CoreGraphics/CGSPrivate.h?spec=svn13&r=13

How to use it:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6250864/change-to-other-space-macosx-programmatically

[markallasread]

+1 — one of the few deal breakers with osx is no hotkey support for moving things between spaces.
Edit: Flawless way of doing this within hammerspoon on sierra: https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/issues/823#issuecomment-193008104

[matthewlmcclure]

Would you accept a pull request that implements this?

[fragilelambda]

+1

[NullGuru]

+1

[lhlmgr]

@matthewlmcclure it seems so:

I don't think so. It isn't something that is easy to implement and I just don't have the time to focus on it. Perhaps somebody else who really wants this feature could take a crack at it?

https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle/issues/15#issuecomment-524395

[simgust]

+1

[Tukan3]

+1

[Ciebiada]

+1

I will use Hammerspoon for the time being, as it can do what Spectacle does + can manage spaces. Example config if anyone is interested: https://github.com/Ciebiada/dot-files/blob/master/hammerspoon/init.lua

[StianIsmar]

+1