Throw window to another Desktop (Not Screen)

[user-flynn7]

Hi,
I love Rectangle pro as its useful 99% of the times, The other 1% is that when I open a couple of programs, I feel the need to send a couple of non essential ones to a new desktop as shown below

However I could not find any way to do this with rectangle pro, Is there any plan to support this? I am sure a lot of users will appreciate this feature

[rxhanson]

Thanks for the feedback. There is no support for moving windows to other Spaces/Desktops at this time.

rxhanson/Rectangle#402

[rxhanson]

In the most recent release, 3.0.12, I added in the move to next/prev space keyboard shortcuts.

[t4k]

This seems to be working great for most apps. I've tried a number of different shortcut combinations, but I cannot get any VS Code windows to move to the next space using my shortcuts. Any ideas?

[rxhanson]

Are you on v3.0.20 or higher? I updated it for VSCode in v3.0.20

[t4k]

I was on the 3.0.19 version. Updated and now it works. Thanks!

[user-flynn7]

hey @rxhanson. Thanks for bringing this much awaited feature. I had to move away from a mac so couldnt test it out. Although I am back on a mac now and for some reason the move to next space does not work for me. Please check out the video below. My cursor just goes to the top left of the screen and comes back to the original position.

2024-04-09_11-30-36.mov

[allisonlindner]

@MrWick7796 if you changed the shortcut for move to next and previous space, that is the problem, change the shortcut to default and it will work.

[rxhanson]

Thanks for replying where I didn't! Indeed this would be the scenario, as Rectangle Pro is executing the default macOS keyboard shortcut for switching spaces. I'm not aware of a way to figure this out without user input as a 3rd party, but if there is a way to do that, I'll see if I can fix this.

[cyber-nic]

A "Next Space" / "Previous Space" tooltip would be handy. Thanks

[rxhanson]

@cyber-nic Good point, I'll add that in.

If you do change the default macOS keyboard shortcuts for switching Spaces, you can adjust Rectangle Pro to use those with Terminal commands:

defaults write com.knollsoft.Hookshot nextSpaceShortcut -string "{\"keyCode\":<KEYCODE>,\"modifierFlags\":<MODIFIER_FLAGS>}"
defaults write com.knollsoft.Hookshot previousSpaceShortcut -string "{\"keyCode\":<KEYCODE>,\"modifierFlags\":<MODIFIER_FLAGS>}"

Replace <KEYCODE> and <MODIFIER_FLAGS> with the actual values. You can use an app like Key Codes to figure these out.

Then restart the app afterwards.

My plan is to adjust the keyboard shortcut recorder to allow this to be input as a modifier keypress followed by the key (as opposed to executing the shortcut to record it). When I have that change in place, then this can be configured in the UI instead of via Terminal.