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Amethyst Cheatsheet

Amethyst is a tiling window manager for MacOS. This cheat sheet is to support my attempt to remember all of the keyboard shortcuts that are useful for me. See Amethyst preferences for the full list, or to record/remap your own.


ShortcutsDescription
Option + Shift + SpaceCycle layout forward
Ctrl + Option + Shift + SpaceCycle layout backwards
Option + Shift + ZForce windows to be reevaluated
Option + Shift + DFullscreen layout
Option + Shift + FColumn layout
Option + Shift + ATall layout
Option + Shift + SWide layout
Option + Shift + IDisplay current layout
Option + Shift + WFocus on Screen 1
Ctrl + Option + Shift + WPlace focussed window on Screen 1
Option + Shift + EFocus on Screen 2
Ctrl + Option + Shift + EPlace focussed window on Screen 2
Option + Shift + RFocus on Screen 3
Ctrl + Option + Shift + RPlace focussed window on Screen 3
Ctrl + Option + Shift + XToggle focus follows mouse
Ctrl + Option + Shift + TToggle global tiling