Detect current active space number?

Configuration Help & General Discussion
1

Hi, here's what I'm trying to accomplish:

  • A single hotkey to open a new Chrome tab with the correct profile
  • If I'm viewing Space #1, use my personal profile
  • Otherwise, use my work profile

Is there a way for BTT to detect which Space is currently active? Or does anyone have another suggestion for how to accomplish this?

Thanks!

2

In the latest alpha (4.725) I added a on-demand variable "ActiveSpace" for this, you can e.g. use it in an if condition.

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async function someJavaScriptFunction() {

	let activeSpace = get_number_variable("ActiveSpace");
	
	if(activeSpace == 4) {
	    return true
	}
	
	return false;
}

Note: the space id is not equivalent to what the space is called in the macOS UI.

3

Hi Andreas — that's great, thank you! I'll try it.

4

Worked perfectly! Thank you.

Here's what I'm doing. Looks like my first space has the ID of 3. Happily, this persists across restarts.

async function isPersonalSpace() {

return await get_number_variable("ActiveSpace") == 3;

}
5

Is there a way to get the number of the desktop (space) into a floating menu (the text of the menu)?
I didnt find the way to do it so far.
tried this

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thank you

6

In 5.599 alpha I made the active_space and translated_active_space variables observable. This means you can now do this without any scripting (just put it in curly braces - e.g. {translated_active_space}):

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I also added a new "Active Space Did Change" trigger.

7

thank you very much, this solves my biggest issue with macos and that is knowing what space im in ( according to various forums, many other users struggle with this too).:folded_hands: