M1 spaces workaround

TotalSpaces
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I was concerned about losing the extremely handy TotalSpaces app just having bought a MacMini M1. As a temporary work around I am using BetterTouchTools’ ability to assign keyboard shortcuts to any of the 6 Spaces I use. This, combined with creating a Keyboard Maestros palette containing 6 icons for my 6 Spaces, allows me to do a simple single click on any of my 6 icons and switch immediately to any Space I want. Hoping TotalSpaces 3 is available for M1 Macs soon!

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I’m really struggling with this workspace transition animation on M1, please answer does your workaround switch spaces without this transition delay?

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You can turn off that transition delay by checking “Reduce Motions” in System Preferences > Accessibility > Display but that does it for other system animations too – well worth it for me personally so hope this helps! I do still miss the brief overlay indication that TotalSpaces would provide upon a space switch though.

And while I’m a big fan of BetterTouchTools, you can also assign simple keyboard shortcuts to move left/right a space and switch to each individual space natively in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Mission Control > Mission Control.

The thing I miss the most at the moment about TotalSpaces is having a grid structure rather than a list structure such that I could easily move windows between say desktops 1 and 4 in a 2 row by 3 column grid with just one keyboard shortcut to carry the window up/down versus only left/right.

Also the true Spaces and Expose view from TotalSpaces is missed as well. Finding a window when you have multiple spaces each with multiple windows that may obscure one another is difficult with the native mission control functionality.

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thanks for the answer, but I’m very aware of “reduce motion”, fade-in fade-out animation is also a delay that I can’t stand, it is about 200ms delay which is in my professional workflow is pretty significant. It is really sad that I need to consider returning to linux after 5 years of great macos user experience because of this thing :frowning: