| Tip 105 | Switch Desktop Space Ultra-Quickly |
Here are two tips to speed up how you use desktop spaces.
Nudging from Space to Space Instantly
If you use more than one desktop space, you might already know that if you click and drag program windows to the far right (or left) side of a screen, you can “nudge” the window into the next desktop space. To do this, drag the window so that the mouse cursor cannot move any further against the screen edge.
There’s a one- or two-second delay before OS X switches to the neighboring desktop space, and you can speed this up using a hidden setting, as follows:
| | defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-edge-delay -float 0;killall Dock |
The desktop space will now change as soon as you touch the edge of the screen. ...
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