Adding a Mac Keyboard Shortcut For Moving a Window To Another Display
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ค. 2021
- macmost.com/e-2477 If you have multiple displays, it is handy to be able to quickly move the current window to the other display. There is already a Menu Bar command for this. But with a little work, you can add a keyboard shortcut as well.
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Super useful ! I discovered that if you put the same key for both shortcuts it become a kind of "switch screen shortcut". This is because when your app is on one screen it has only one menu entry at a time.
This was super helpful!! As a user using Mac after a lifetime of PC tips like this are exactly what I was searching for. Thank you very much for the clear and concise video!
Another very informative video tutorial! You’re a wonderful teacher. Thank you, Gary! 👏❤️👍🏻
Brilliant - thanks Gary. No more dragging from display 1 to 2!
Perfect timing for something I'm working on Tuesday! Thanks Gary!
Thank you so much for taking the time to share this. I have been looking for a solution like this without a third party app forever.
Very useful :) I had encountered this method already and was looking for something else, but this convinced me to just go ahead and use this method.
Great tip! Thank you - particularly like Adam's suggestion of using the same shortcut key so it works as a toggle. Especially as, and I have no idea why, in Safari - the option / command and right or left arrow keys move to the next / previous tab.
Thank Bob, this was just what I was looking for. Cheers!
Thats amazing, it is always a good to have a shortcut while I am using this action a lot, great tips.
Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thaaaaaaaaank you!! Not only have I added those shortcuts but I've added them to my Logitech mouse shortcut keys. You're the best!
Exactly what i was looking for!
Thank you so much!
Really clear and useful tutorial! Thanks!!
Easy to follow and understand. Thank you.
Useful!, exact what I was looking for. Thanks!
THANK YOU. You have just helped me solve the biggest irritation since switching from Windows, and eliminated my need for an external mouse at the same time. Dragging from one screen to the other was SUCH a pain with the trackpad.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR AWESOME TUTORIALS!
Thank you! Been looking for something like this.
This was so helpful! Thank you!
Super Helpful! Thank you!
You've got a new sub! Super helpful video, nicely illustrated. Keep it up!
Awesome! I already have cmd-option-left-arrow for switching to previous tab in a window, so I used cmd-option-dot for move to 'right' display (because shift-dot is a greater-than sign, similar to a right arrow). And cmd-option-comma is, similarly, for moving a window to the 'left' display.
Lifesaver! Thank you. Subscribed!
Very helpful! Thanks Gary 😃
Thank you Gary, that was really useful.
Very informative, thank you!
Great tip Gary, thanks!
Thank you so much this was so fast and easy earned a sub and like for sure
Awesome, thanks!!
Thanks, that was super helpful!
That was really helpful, thanks a lot!
super helpful, thanks!
Thank you, that was great!!
Thank you!
Exactly what i’m looking for. Thank you.
Fantastic completely solved my issue - thank you
Hi Gary, namaste from India. I watch each video of yours and it gives, educates us@ apple products. Good work, keep going.
Oh God! I searched for this for many months! Thanks a lot (:
Really helpful!
Dude you're F**** awesome. This what I was looking for so long.
Wonderful video! Subscribed!
Excellent Gary, tks.
This really helped a lot!
Wonderful!
Perfect, thank you!
Useful thanks!
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It's work!! Thanks you
Nice! Thank you! :)
Your a life saver!!!!! Thank you!
Thank you so much!!! Lifesaver!
Thanks solved my problem. Kindly share more shortcuts as I am newly switched to mac..
it works, thank you very much!
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Thank you. 🙏
Woww.. Super Useful ! Thanks
Life saver. Thanks
Love it! Thanks…
Thank you
Amazing :)
Thank you so much. I thought I would have to download some extra utility. Really missed my window computer sometimes.
Thank You very much.
thx a lot!!!!!!!
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Life Saviour!!!!!
Thanks
Brilliant
I liked your tip on how to center the window using Automator. Wish macOS has this feature by default. The KB shortcut doesn't always work and work for every app.
Exactly what I needed. I only have to test if I can do this to full screen apps.
I'm really sorry that I can like this video only once. :) You have my sub! Thx!
This is huge. In tandem with Magnet, my window management is getting crazy good.
Very informative video. I’d much rather use keyboard shortcuts than reaching for the mouse/trackpad.
Hy and thank you. Stumbled uppon your tutorial with the same wish, but... my os is german and most interestingly, the monitors are in hiphens - so, it would read like - Auf „PHL 276E8V" bewegen - if I enter exactely this with hiphens or without, I does not work - are there any suggestions? Thanks and BR
have set the shortcut option+command+arrowRight ....Left ...Down each with exactly the name as shown in the menue to move windows between my three displays, but in the menue the shortcut is only showing for the main display (Macbook Air M2, Mac os x 13, Lionwei HDMI Adapter set to extended Desktop) Any suggestion what to do to move windows between my desktops? (Have now set each desktop to be its own space, on order to find maybe a solution to move windows between spaces, but I would prefer to have just one space...)
Thanks, great video! Any idea on how to this when in fullscreen on preview?
When in full screen it doesn't make sense to move a window as you aren't using a regular window.
Excellent!!! on the other hand, how can I do to move any window from between virtual desktops, for example: from desktop 1 to desktop 2.
In general, or with a keyboard shortcut? In general, you'd launch Mission Control and then drag and drop. I don't think there is any way to set a keyboard shortcut though.
Command option + arrow changes tabs in Safari right? Helpful video anyways, I only need to find a different shortcut.
Hi Gary. This seems to work with just native Mac Apps but not on third party apps like Adobe or Libre Office, the keyboard short doesn't appear next to the move command. Is this correct?
Thank you so much! It works great for me, but I can't get a Chrome tab to move with the command, only the mouse command. Is there a work around I'm missing?
Does the menu item name match your shortcut exactly? If so, does the keyboard shortcut appear in the menu?
Hello, thank you so much for the tutorial. I followed all the steps, and even though it works with finder windows, it doesn't work with photoshop. Do you know what I might be doing wrong, and how it can be fixed? Much appreciated!
Probably Photoshop is using custom menu items instead of the default ones. Examine the menu item titles carefully to see if you can modify this technique for Photoshop. The titles of the menu item and the titles of the keyboard shortcuts have to match exactly.
really useful! there is a way to move the mouse from a monitor to another with a shortcut(without dragging it)?
Not really. The pointer moves with the Trackpad/mouse.
Legit. Thanks. It's odd that "Menu Title" is where you put the menu ACTION in. Seems unintuitive on Apple's part. Also, it would be rad if they allowed you to click on either a popup menu to populate that field (or multiple if needed in a more intuitive setup like I implied above). Perhaps best of all would be to allow you to select the menu and command directly from a menu in the background if a change of focus could be suspended for that purpose - sort of the way the Screenshot app allows you to click on stuff in the background without losing focus. I know the functionality is different but I just mention it as a point in how to make things easier for users - sort of like recording a macro. Thanks again.
Oddly, not long after adding this macro, it stopped working consistently. I can't recall when I upgraded my OS to Monterey so I might have thought that was the culprit - but is wasn't. I had a dirty Option Key on my laptop keyboard and had used Option in the macro I made to send windows between screens. After cleaning it (see the many TH-cam videos on this topic), the macro again works properly. WHEW!
Hi Gary,
Is there any shortcut which enables you to toggle between MBP and the external Monitors?
Basically I want to simply navigate between monitors using only the keyboard, not moving a window from here to there whatsoever, just navigate (I know, I can use the mouse to click on the desired monitor, but I don't want that)
Using the keyboard to navigate doesn't care which screen something is on. Use the app switcher, window switcher, etc, to get to the window you want.
Really missed that function moving from Windows. Now I feel at home :)
спасибо это сработало для меня!
anyone has ideas for managing two extenral screens : ive been using swiss arrows app that gave a shortcut key left and right, that was relative to what ever screen I was on. It also worked when I am at home and the office, so didn't matter whan the screen name where... but swiss arrows isn;t working any more, so i asumed that capability had become native to mac..
If the app in fullscreen mode then this method is not working. is there any way to make it work on full screen mode?
How to shift focus from extended screen to main display?
I actually suggest using command + control + direction
This shortcut does not work on full screen windows, so you would need to "un-fullscreen" the window prior to using the shortcut.
command control F is the default short cut for full screen toggle
So with command control direction, you would be able to quickly remove the fullscreen, use the custom keyboard shortcut to move displays then re-toggle full screen on that same window whilst minimizing finger movements.
Economy of motion!
This worked much better for me! Safari didn't seem to respond to opt+cmd+arrow, or certain directions anyway... I found the same shortcut in the bookmarks menu, maybe that's an issue. Thanks!
Awesome ... but is there any way to make a keyboard shortcut to move window into ipad when I am using it as extended display through sidecar?
Only if the menu item has a consistent name. I think it does. Look in the window menu for "Move to iPad." If it is consistently exactly that, then just assign a keyboard shortcut to that in System Settings, Keyboard, Keyboard Shortcuts.
@@macmost thank you so much it worked ... thanks 😇
Is this option only available on certain versions of Mac OS ? I am running Mojave (10.14.6) on an older Macbook Pro and do not see the option to move my window to my connected external display. Upgrading my OS is not an option.
Not sure, look in different apps. The menu choices may have been added in Catalina or later.
That's already a Chrome shortcut for switching tabs :o
@macmostvideo This is an excellent start- how about multiple window moments at a time? For example, when power is off, or I disconnect my docking station, all the existing open windows on the external display will move from my external monitor to my primary mac display. I have to move all the windows to the external monitor once again when the power is back or when I reconnect to my docking station.
Is there any operation or shortcut to simultaneously move all 5 or 10 open windows to the external monitor/ display?
They should move back automatically if it is just a temporary switch. They do for me.
@@macmost they are not moving in my case. lets take that back and forth movement in the picture, If I want to manually move 6 tabs at a time to the external desktop, is there any short cut? like the way we select multiple files and move to trash, is there any way where you can select multiple tabs and move to the external desktop.
Appriciate your help in this
@@meherchaitanya.j1211 So you have a window with say 10 tabs and you want to move 6 of them? Is that what you mean? I can't grab the 6 and move them. You have to move them one at a time.
@@macmost yes i mean the same. i have 10 applications open on my mac , I want to move 6 of them to my external monitor desktop at a time. instead of moving one by one.
@@meherchaitanya.j1211 You have to move them one at a time. Should just take a few seconds. No way to group them and move them.
I'm currently on OS 13.1 and used to see "Move Window to Left/Right Side of Screen" as an option. Now I only see "Tile window to left/right side of screen" but I don't like it when it gets "tiled" since it makes it full screen into a different desktop and find it less efficient. Do you know how to get back the option for moving the window vs. the tile in the window drop down? All my keyboard shortcuts disappeared
How Option and Tile changes to Move.
Thanks for sharing.
When I move Home to my MBP and open up a camera, moving focus back to my monitor blurs the camera image. Maybe someone knows the answer to this please ?
Not sure what you are describing.
Pls how can I rearrange, delete and combine pdf files on iPad, just like we used to do on MacBook with preview app.
You'd need a PDF-handling app for that. I've never seen one, but check the App Store.
Why doesn't it work on my Macbook Pro and my LG monitor? I have the shortcuts in system preferences. They worked until I upgraded to Monterey.
What is the keyboard shorcut for toggling between two displays?
Toggling WHAT between two displays? What are you trying to do, exactly?
Great video. Something like this for Mojave? Thank You
Did you try this in Mojave? Are those menu items not there?
@@macmost Hello Sr. I don't have that option in the menu.
@@peter_shadow7559 I guess it isn't there in Mojave then.