Create a new space using a keyboard shortcut in macOS Big Sur

Question

I am aware you can do it from Mission Control by clicking and there is no shortcut available in 'Keyboard'.

Are there any ways to do this by using a 3rd party program or Shell/ Applescript?

The solution presented here only doesn't work in Big Sur anymore.

Answer 1

Tested under macOS Big Sur and macOS Catalina using English (US) as the language, the following example AppleScript code works to programmatically add another Desktop:

do shell script "open -a 'Mission Control'"
delay 0.5
tell application "System Events" to ¬
    click (every button whose value of ¬
        attribute "AXDescription" is "add desktop") of ¬
        group 2 of group 1 of group 1 of process "Dock"
delay 0.5
tell application "System Events" to key code 53

Note that most likely works from macOS Sierra onwards. Prior to that, remove group 2 of group 1 of from the code.

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For other languages, including English, try the following example AppleScript code:

do shell script "open -b 'com.apple.exposelauncher'"
delay 0.5
tell application id "com.apple.systemevents"
    tell (every application process ¬
        whose bundle identifier = "com.apple.dock") to ¬
        click (button 1 of group 2 of group 1 of group 1)
    delay 0.5
    key code 53 -- esc key
end tell