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title: "Mac window and workspace shortcuts"
description: "Every Universal Display Magnet shortcut: snap windows, move them to another monitor, restore workspaces, snap displays and drive Scrolling Windows."
url: https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/shortcuts
lang: en
---

# Your desk, at your fingertips

Every snap command works from the keyboard. Change any shortcut, or turn it off, under Window Snapping.

## Window snapping

[Try it live](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/window-snapping)

| | |
| --- | --- |
| `⌃⌥←` | Left half |
| `⌃⌥→` | Right half |
| `⌃⌥↑` | Top half |
| `⌃⌥↓` | Bottom half |
| `⌃⌥U` | Top left quarter |
| `⌃⌥I` | Top right quarter |
| `⌃⌥J` | Bottom left quarter |
| `⌃⌥K` | Bottom right quarter |
| `⌃⌥⌘→` | Next display |
| `⌃⌥⌘←` | Previous display |
| `⌃⌥↩` | Maximize |
| `⌃⌥C` | Center |
| `⌃⌥⌫` | Restore the previous size and position |

## Windows and workspaces

[Try it live](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/workspaces)

| | |
| --- | --- |
| `⌃⌥⌘S` | Quick-save windows |
| `⌃⌥⌘R` | Restore the latest window layout |
| `⇧⌘S` | Save Workspace… (in the app) |
| `⇧⌘R` | Restore the latest windows (in the app) |

## Displays

[Try it live](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/display-arrangement)

| | |
| --- | --- |
| `⌃⌥⌘D` | Re-apply the saved arrangement, or snap displays together |
| `⌘J` | Snap displays together (in the app) |

## The app

| | |
| --- | --- |
| `⌘0` | Open the Universal Display Magnet window |
| `⌘1 – 6` | Open Workspaces, Window Snapping, Displays, Universal Control, Macs & Sync or Activity |

## Scrolling Windows

[Try it live](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/scrolling-windows)

Window snapping shortcuts work while **Scrolling Windows** is off. Turn Scrolling Windows on and its shortcuts take over; the two sets are never active at the same time.

While **Scrolling Windows** is on, these shortcuts replace the window snapping ones. Each action can have several shortcuts; change them in the app's Scrolling Windows settings, where every action plays a short preview.

### Strip

| | |
| --- | --- |
| `⌃⌥←` | Focus left |
| `⌃⌥→` | Focus right |
| `⌃⌥⇧←` | Move left |
| `⌃⌥⇧→` | Move right |
| `⌃⌥⌘←` | Focus first column |
| `⌃⌥⌘→` | Focus last column |
| `⌃⌥1` | Jump to column 1 |
| `⌃⌥2` | Jump to column 2 |
| `⌃⌥3` | Jump to column 3 |
| `⌃⌥9` | Jump to last column |
| `⌃⌥O` | Show strip overview |
| `⌃⌥T` | Float / tile window |
| `⌃⌥Q` | Turn off scrolling windows |

### Widths

[Try it live](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/column-widths)

| | |
| --- | --- |
| `⌃⌥R` | Cycle width |
| `⌃⌥⇧R` | Cycle width backwards |
| `⌃⌥=` | Wider |
| `⌃⌥−` | Narrower |
| `⌃⌥F` | Full width (zoom in a grid) |
| `⌃⌥C` | Center column |
| `⌃⌥⇧0` | Equal column widths |

### Stacks

[Try it live](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/stacks)

| | |
| --- | --- |
| `⌃⌥]` | Stack into left column |
| `⌃⌥[` | Stack into right column |
| `⌃⌥⇧]` | Pop out to the right |
| `⌃⌥⇧[` | Pop out to the left |
| `⌃⌥⇧↑` | Move up in stack |
| `⌃⌥⇧↓` | Move down in stack |
| `⌃⌥⇧=` | Taller in stack (preset) |
| `⌃⌥⇧−` | Shorter in stack (preset) |
| `⌃⌥⌘=` | Taller in stack |
| `⌃⌥⌘−` | Shorter in stack |
| `⌃⌥0` | Equalize stack heights |

### Tabs

[Try it live](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/tabbed-columns)

| | |
| --- | --- |
| `⌃⌥⇧T` | Tabbed column on / off |
| `⌃⌥↑` | Focus above / previous tab |
| `⌃⌥↓` | Focus below / next tab |

### Displays

[Try it live](https://universaldisplaymagnet.app/features/multiple-displays)

| | |
| --- | --- |
| `⌃⌥N` | Send to next display |
| `⌃⌥⇧N` | Send to next display, stay here |
| `⌃⌥G` | Grid / strip on this display |

To move windows between Desktops, Universal Display Magnet uses the macOS **Switch to Desktop 1…10** shortcuts (⌃1…⌃0). Turn them on with **Workspaces → Enable ⌃1…⌃0** if they're off.

Each workspace can have its own shortcut too. If another app already owns a shortcut, Universal Display Magnet flags it.

There's no built-in thirds shortcut: draw a third or two thirds as a custom size under **Window Snapping**, and give it a shortcut of its own.

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