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Is there a hot key to move one window (say chrome browser) from one screen another screen for multiple monitors?

I'm using mac osx 10.10

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Doesn't exists. If you want this feature you have to use an external program. For such thing, I use Moom (10$) where you can define a shortcut for it. Checkout the screenshot:

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This let me use ⌥alt+⇥tab to move the active window to the desktop on the right.

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  • does it work with Yosemite?
    – genxgeek
    May 17, 2015 at 16:42
  • Yes, I use it on Yosemite
    – jherran
    May 17, 2015 at 16:43
  • not to hijack to hijack this thread but do you know how with the keyboard I move the window around (on current screen)...instead of using mouse always to reposition window?
    – genxgeek
    May 17, 2015 at 17:16
  • I use ctrl + shift + z, and then move the window with the cursor and press esc to end. But now I can't check if I customize that keyboard shortcuts.
    – jherran
    May 17, 2015 at 17:19
  • so this is a feature of moom or built in apple stuff? ctrl + shift + z didn't work but i can check to see what it possibly set to in moom.
    – genxgeek
    May 17, 2015 at 17:24
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EDIT: As mentioned by @dbernard and Spectacle, Spectacle is no longer actively being maintained, the recommended alternative is Rectangle which is also free. Checkout Rectangle's github.

Spectacle works just as well and is free! See their github for more information.

Feel free to take a look at their keyboard shortcuts found here. The default shortcut for moving to "Next Display" is ⌃⌥⌘→ and you can configure it to whatever you want.

Works perfectly on 10.10.5 and 10.14.6

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    I've had issues with iTerm too but I think iTerm said it was either their issue or an El Captain issue.
    – nevets1219
    Nov 25, 2016 at 8:44
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    Works great for me on High Sierra
    – Marcin Nabiałek
    Dec 27, 2017 at 15:51
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    works for me in Mojave 10.14.5, thanks for sharing
    – Hearen
    Jul 11, 2019 at 7:00
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    Spectacle being not maintained anymore, the open-source alternative is now Rectangle. Works well on MacOS 10.15!
    – dbernard
    Dec 11, 2019 at 14:21
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    This app works great. Do remember that starting from El Capitain, the apps has to be given permission to access accessibility features then it works like a charm.
    – Roman
    Dec 21, 2019 at 1:44
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On newer macos you can use the menu items to do this. This works in Catalina, havent tried with earlier macos versions.

Go to System Preferences/Keyboard/Shortcuts There create shortcuts for menu items corresponding to your screen. I have a macbook pro that is connected to a iMac in target display mode, so i get to see the following options in apps:

Window/Move to iMac Window/Move to Built-in Retina Display

I added shortcuts for these 2 window commands and assigned the same shortcut for both these commands as at a time only one of them appear on my system.

The exact menu items i used were: Window->Move to Built-in Retina Display Window->Move to iMac

I assigned these shortcuts Command + Option + Shift + N (⌥⇧⌘N)

No need for any third party tools for this functionality.

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    Great option. I have just tried that and it works fine. The only problem is that not all apps have Window->Move to X display menu item. That definitely works for Chrome but it does not work for KeePassX for example.
    – AlexHalkin
    Jan 13, 2020 at 16:46
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    After I posted this, I also noticed that the one I posted above does not work always. Esp with Firefox. I still keep shiftit installed on my system. That handles this very nicely. This is one thing that apple should make it easy to assign shortcuts to. Maybe have some default ones like there is one for entering/exiting full screen.
    – no1lives4ever
    Jan 14, 2020 at 17:37
  • Amazing, this one is working like a charm for me! Thanks a lot. I had to figure out how to add that menu item shortcut, but this helped me a lot.
    – tomdelahaba
    Mar 29, 2022 at 22:04
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BetterTouchTool can also do it: https://folivora.ai/

Gestures -> Keyboard -> Add new shortcut -> "chose your key combination" -> Trigger predefined action -> Move Window to next Monitor (or alternatively Move Window One Space/Desktop Left/Right.)

(a must have tool in my opinion, it can do many other awesome things)

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  • It doesn't work for me on High Sierra
    – Marcin Nabiałek
    Dec 27, 2017 at 15:50
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    Actually the correct predefined action is Move Window to next Monitor
    – Sébastien
    Jun 19, 2018 at 14:57
  • This doesn't work for full screened windows so I added a CMD+CTRL+F action after it. Now, to move a fullscreen window between desktops you can simply do the trigger twice; once to un-fullscreen it and the second to move and re-fullscreen it.
    – thefinnomenon
    Dec 22, 2020 at 20:27
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Spectacle is not being maintained. The free and maintained option now is https://rectangleapp.com.

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I use the Magnet app, which is an elegant app that helps with setting up zones on your monitors and keyboard shortcuts to snap windows into full screen, half screen, third screen, etc.

It also supports a shortcut to move your window to different monitors.

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There is a tool for more advanced users called Hammerspoon. With this, you can achieve a lot of things and as this answer on a question on StackOverflow pointed out, it's pretty easy to achieve what you want with a simple Hammerspoon configuration.

Hammerspoon is not exactly an app, but it might still be interesting for some users.

-- From https://stackoverflow.com/a/58662204
hs.hotkey.bind({'alt', 'ctrl', 'cmd'}, 'n', function()
  -- Get the focused window
  local win = hs.window.focusedWindow()
  -- Get the screen where the focused window is displayed, a.k.a. current screen
  local screen = win:screen()
  -- Compute the unitRect of the focused window relative to the current screen
  -- and move the window to the next screen setting the same unitRect 
  win:move(win:frame():toUnitRect(screen:frame()), screen:next(), true, 0)
end)
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