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In Big Sur, using Mission Control we have the Control+1, Control+2 keyboard shortcuts to switch between desktops.

Is there a way (built-in is preferred of course) to switch to a specific space (including full-screen apps and not only desktops) by its number?

Reflection
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  • Spaces are Desktops. Apple unfortunately uses the two terms without differentiation. There is no way to switch to a specific fullscreen Space, because they don't have numbers. – Tetsujin Feb 17 '21 at 10:32
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    I've done a couple of previous answers on how to make the most of Spaces - unfortunately any 'best use' method which involves Spaces also precludes the use of fullscreen. They just were never properly thought out when fullscreen was added to the existing Spaces philosophy & no-one has ever thought to go back & fix it. https://superuser.com/a/1187552/347380 and https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/179403/85275 – Tetsujin Feb 17 '21 at 10:36
  • @maybe by programming some dedicated automation? Tetsujin – Reflection Feb 17 '21 at 10:42
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    Spaces is not scriptable. This page has a list of 3rd party Mac window managers which may be useful. I haven't tested any of them - https://www.slant.co/topics/526/~best-window-manager-for-mac – Tetsujin Feb 17 '21 at 10:53
  • @Tetsujin but keyboard shortcuts are scriptable? so maybe it's possibe to levarage the Option+Left and Option+Right shortcuts of spaces, to mimic the Option+1 Option+2 of desktops by scripting – Reflection Feb 17 '21 at 11:22
  • What are you hoping to gain? Sure you can script ctrl/1, 2 etc, but fullscreen spaces have no numbers, nor do they stay in any fixed order, so you'd need to script Ctrl/[last numbered space] then ctrl/right arrow enough times to reach correct the fullscreen space. – Tetsujin Feb 17 '21 at 11:24
  • @Tetsujin Yes that's the flow i talked on. But, what do you mean by "nor do they stay in any fixed order"? what is the ordering logic? – Reflection Feb 17 '21 at 11:53
  • Each new one goes to the right of all others. Order is then also dictated by the 'Automatically rearrange Spaces based on recent use" pref. – Tetsujin Feb 17 '21 at 12:13
  • At the end I used Keyboard Mastro to assign specific keyboard shortcuts to switch to the few applications I use in fullscreen mode. – nohillside Feb 17 '21 at 13:19
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    @nohillside - good call. Personally I dismissed fullscreen mode as useless within the first day it arrived to macOS & haven't touched it since ;)) – Tetsujin Feb 17 '21 at 14:00

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