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Alternatives with larger issues

• Spaces Module for Hammerspoon (using undocumented api)

  Hammerspoon console

  > spaces = require("hs._asm.undocumented.spaces")
  > hs.inspect(spaces.layout())
  > spaces.changeToSpace(2);spaces.changeToSpace(7)
  

  Displays go black and window layout is destroyed.

Untested alternative

• Phoenix https://kasper.github.io/phoenix/api/space

Bspwm (linux)

An issue on github for the Linux tiling window manager bspwm can be found here with a mapping suggestion of the author of bspwm for bspwm (idea is the same as this answer).

ctrl - left : index=`yabai -m query --spaces --space | jq '.index'` &&\
                        if (($index != 1 && $index != 6 )) then\
                            new=$((index-1)); \
                            other=$(((new+5)%10));\
                            yabai -m space --focus "${other}"; yabai -m space --focus "${new}";\
                        fi
ctrl - right : index=`yabai -m query --spaces --space | jq '.index'` &&\
                        if (($index != 5 && $index != 10 )) then\
                            new=$((index+1)); \
                            other=$(((index+5)%10+1));\
                            yabai -m space --focus "${other}"; yabai -m space --focus "${new}";\
                        fi
# ctrl+1-5:

ctrl - 1 : index=`yabai -m query --displays --display | jq '.index'` &&\
                if (($index == 1)) then\
                    yabai -m space --focus 6; yabai -m space --focus 1;\
                else \
                    yabai -m space --focus 1; yabai -m space --focus 6;\
                fi
ctrl - 2 : index=`yabai -m query --displays --display | jq '.index'` &&\
                if (($index == 1)) then\
                    yabai -m space --focus 7; yabai -m space --focus 2;\
                else \
                    yabai -m space --focus 2; yabai -m space --focus 7;\
                fi
ctrl - 3 : index=`yabai -m query --displays --display | jq '.index'` &&\
                if (($index == 1)) then\
                    yabai -m space --focus 8; yabai -m space --focus 3;\
                else \
                    yabai -m space --focus 3; yabai -m space --focus 8;\
                fi
ctrl - 4 : index=`yabai -m query --displays --display | jq '.index'` &&\
                if (($index == 1)) then\
                    yabai -m space --focus 9; yabai -m space --focus 4;\
                else \
                    yabai -m space --focus 4; yabai -m space --focus 9;\
                fi
ctrl - 5 : index=`yabai -m query --displays --display | jq '.index'` &&\
                if (($index == 1)) then\
                    yabai -m space --focus 10; yabai -m space --focus 5;\
                else \
                    yabai -m space --focus 5; yabai -m space --focus 10;\
                fi

ctrl - left : index=`yabai -m query --spaces --space | jq '.index'` &&\
                        if (($index != 1 && $index != 6 )) then\
                            new=$((index-1)); \
                            other=$(((new+4)%10+1));\
                            yabai -m space --focus "${other}"; yabai -m space --focus "${new}";\
                        fi
ctrl - right : index=`yabai -m query --spaces --space | jq '.index'` &&\
                        if (($index != 5 && $index != 10 )) then\
                            new=$((index+1)); \
                            other=$(((index+4)%10+1));\
                            yabai -m space --focus "${other}"; yabai -m space --focus "${new}";\
                        fi
# ctrl+1-5:

ctrl - 1 : index=`yabai -m query --displays --display | jq '.index'` &&\
                if (($index == 1)) then\
                    yabai -m space --focus 6; yabai -m space --focus 1;\
                else \
                    yabai -m space --focus 1; yabai -m space --focus 6;\
                fi
ctrl - 2 : index=`yabai -m query --displays --display | jq '.index'` &&\
                if (($index == 1)) then\
                    yabai -m space --focus 7; yabai -m space --focus 2;\
                else \
                    yabai -m space --focus 2; yabai -m space --focus 7;\
                fi
ctrl - 3 : index=`yabai -m query --displays --display | jq '.index'` &&\
                if (($index == 1)) then\
                    yabai -m space --focus 8; yabai -m space --focus 3;\
                else \
                    yabai -m space --focus 3; yabai -m space --focus 8;\
                fi
ctrl - 4 : index=`yabai -m query --displays --display | jq '.index'` &&\
                if (($index == 1)) then\
                    yabai -m space --focus 9; yabai -m space --focus 4;\
                else \
                    yabai -m space --focus 4; yabai -m space --focus 9;\
                fi
ctrl - 5 : index=`yabai -m query --displays --display | jq '.index'` &&\
                if (($index == 1)) then\
                    yabai -m space --focus 10; yabai -m space --focus 5;\
                else \
                    yabai -m space --focus 5; yabai -m space --focus 10;\
                fi

#!/usr/bin/env sh
# file: ~/.config/yabai/maintain_paired_spaces.sh

# Keep two displays with spaces [1-5] and [6-12] in sync
#
# yabai signal 'space_changed'
# Passes two arguments $YABAI_SPACE_ID and $YABAI_RECENT_SPACE_ID

# Note $YABAI_SPACE_ID is not the same as the mission control index.
# Translate YABAI_SPACE_ID to mission control index as following
new=$(yabai -m query --spaces | jq ".[] | select(.id == $YABAI_SPACE_ID) | .index")

# modulo arithmetic
other=$(((new+4)%10+1))

# Check if already visible
visible=$(yabai -m query --spaces | jq ".[] | select(.visible == 1 and .index == $other)")
if [ -z "$visible" ] then
    yabai -m space --focus "${other}"
    display=$(yabai -m query --spaces --space $other | jq ".display")
fi

#!/usr/bin/env sh
# file: ~/.config/yabai/maintain_paired_spaces.sh

# Keep two displays with spaces [1-5] and [6-12] in sync
#
# yabai signal 'space_changed'
# Passes two arguments $YABAI_SPACE_ID and $YABAI_RECENT_SPACE_ID

# Note $YABAI_SPACE_ID is not the same as the mission control index.
# Translate YABAI_SPACE_ID to mission control index as following
new=$(yabai -m query --spaces | jq ".[] | select(.id == $YABAI_SPACE_ID) | .index")

# modulo arithmetic
other=$(((new+4)%10+1))

# Check if already visible
visible=$(yabai -m query --spaces | jq ".[] | select(.visible == 1 and .index == $other)")
if [ -z "$visible" ]; then
    yabai -m space --focus "${other}"
    display=$(yabai -m query --spaces --space $other | jq ".display")
fi