Setting and using Aerospace

By default there are a lot of workspaces defined in your aerospace.toml file, so lets take advantage. You can do OPTION-1 to switch to 1, OPTION-E to switch to E, etc. (You'll see which one you are on in the menu bar.) For the window that has the focus, doing OPTION-SHIFT-E moves the window to that workspace, keeping you in the existing one. Go down the list and move the applications where you want them.

For example, I'm using

But that's all personal preference.

There are two different layouts, tiling and accordian. OPTION-/ flips between horizontal and vertical mode.

The VI movement keys – H, J, K, L – move around. So OPTION-H, OPTION-J will let you navigate through the windows.

Adding the shift key will move them around.

If you want to "move a window into another window", which while make them tile together, enter service mode. Which is OPTION-SHIFT-:. This is how you have different layouts.

You can also go to service more press escape to reread the config file.

You can make the windows smaller and bigger using - and =. This can be handy.

For Books, I like the accordian layout. This is OPTION-, and it puts the windows on top of each other. You can change focus by OPTION-H or OPTION-J – left and right.

OPTION-TAB goes back and forth to the previous workspace, which is certainly something to do when you are looking at code previews.

In the menubar, there's an option to open up the config.toml in your favorite editor, as well as saving it.

1. https://nikitabobko.github.io/AeroSpace/guide#installation