Move a Window from One Space to Another

You can easily move a window from any application from one space to another in Spaces with a single keyboard shortcut and drag-and-drop mouse motion.

First, activate Spaces by pressing the key combination set in the System Preferences (default is F8). Once you have summoned up Spaces, simply drag the window around the screen, and when you let go of the mouse button, the window will drop into whichever space it is held over.

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Written by Omer Zach on October 27, 2007 at 12:45 am - Move a Window from One Space to Another has 10 comments - Categorized in Easy Tips, Leopard Tips, Spaces Tips, keyboard shortcuts

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yanked

Also, if you click and hold a window, and then jump to another space (eg, command-rightarrow), the window will be brought along into that new space. October 27th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
Omer Zach

Haha, good point. I actually already wrote a tip about this but haven't posted it yet. October 28th, 2007 at 1:39 am
doushanes

Or you can drag an application window to a specific of the screen and hold it there. For example, if you were in the first space(top left), you could drag the window to the right edge of the screen and it will move it to the second space, or to the bottom edge of the screen to move it to the third(bottom left). Depending on which space you are on will determine where you can move it and which edge of the screen to move it there. October 28th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Omer Zach

That is another good one. I remembered reading about being able to shift spaces by dragging a window to the edge, but couldn't figure out how to do it. October 28th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Poe

Thanks, these are great tips. You should also let people know that while in spaces view, you can drag entire spaces from position to position. For example, if you have Safari running in space 1, you can bring up the spaces view and drag space one to the right and it'll become space 2. This is helpful for moving all running apps from one space to another. December 26th, 2007 at 5:14 pm
eman

Is there away to close a particular window in the all windows view? I want to go to this view and close windows and apps...anybody?

E January 8th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Omer Zach

@eman: Sadly, I couldn't find any way of doing this.... I wish you could, it seems like a very useful way of managing open windows. January 8th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
eman

Thanks, Omer. Maybe in an update, if we are lucky January 9th, 2008 at 6:49 am
olivier

Thanks for thoses tips.
1 question: How would it be possible to open an application, as firefox, in several spaces. When I want to open in space 2, it automatically bing me to the space one where firefox is already open...

Thanks March 6th, 2008 at 11:52 am
Ruud

@Oliver: right-click the icon in the dock and select 'new window', works with safari anyway. July 20th, 2008 at 9:29 am