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Workspaces and windows

Switch between ten workspaces, move windows and use the workspace map or Stage Manager.

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Ten workspaces

Super 1 through 0 switches to a workspace. The 0 key means workspace ten. Add Shift to send the focused window to that workspace.

The dots in the left bar show your workspaces, with the active one stretched into a pill. On multiple monitors, each bar shows the workspaces belonging to its screen.

The workspace map

Press Super Tab to open the workspace map. Each cell is a scaled version of that workspace, with the windows in their actual positions.

Ten workspace cells, some containing miniature windows
The workspace map shows the positions and sizes of your windows.

Choose a window to focus it. Drag one into another cell to move it to that workspace. Escape closes the map.

Stage Manager

Push the pointer against the left edge. The other workspaces slide in as stacks of their real windows, turned towards the centre. Click a stack to switch to it.

Stacks of workspace windows sliding in from the left edge
Stage Manager brings the other workspaces to the left edge of the screen.

Super Shift Tab toggles Stage Manager. You can also change it in Settings.

Focus and movement

Shortcut What it does
Super Shift + an arrow Focuses the window in that direction
Super + an arrow Moves the focused window in that direction
Super + left drag Moves a window with the pointer
Super + right drag Resizes a window
Super V Toggles a centred floating window

With the arrow bindings, Shift changes focus; without Shift you move the window.

More than one monitor

Workspace numbers are shared across the desktop. If workspace two is on another screen, Super 2 takes you there.

Review monitor arrangement, resolution and scale in Settings → Displays. For configuration paths, see under the hood.

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