13 moves every one on the keyboard

Every way to move a window

Each one below starts from the same strip: Cursor in focus in the middle, with neighbors running off both edges. Watch what changes.

Terminal
Cursor
Safari
The window in focusEach app keeps its color, so you can follow itMail is off the left edge, Notes off the right

Focus

Step through the strip. The window you land on slides to the middle.

Focus left

Focus jumps to the window on the left and the strip slides it to the middle.

⌃⌘H
Terminal
Cursor
Safari
Before
Mail
Terminal
Cursor
After: Terminal in focus

Focus right

Focus jumps to the window on the right and the strip slides it to the middle.

⌃⌘L
Terminal
Cursor
Safari
Before
Cursor
Safari
Notes
After: Safari in focus

Move

Carry the focused window along the strip. It stays in the middle; its neighbors swap around it.

Move window left

Cursor trades places with Terminal. It keeps focus and stays in the middle.

⌃⇧⌘H
Terminal
Cursor
Safari
Before
Mail
Cursor
Terminal
After: Terminal is now on the right

Move window right

Cursor trades places with Safari. It keeps focus and stays in the middle.

⌃⇧⌘L
Terminal
Cursor
Safari
Before
Safari
Cursor
Notes
After: Safari is now on the left

Size

Give a window the room it needs. Neighbors make way instead of getting squeezed.

Cycle width

Step up through narrow, medium and wide, then back to narrow. Neighbors make room.

⌃⌘R
Terminal
Cursor
Safari
Medium
Terminal
Cursor
Safari
Wide

Cycle width backward

The same three widths, the other way: wide, medium, narrow.

⌃⌥⌘R
Terminal
Cursor
Safari
Medium
Terminal
Cursor
Safari
Narrow

Wider

Nudge the width up a little at a time, between the steps.

⌃⌘=
Terminal
Cursor
Safari
Before
Terminal
Cursor
Safari
After: a little wider

Narrower

Nudge the width down a little at a time.

⌃⌘-
Terminal
Cursor
Safari
Before
Terminal
Cursor
Safari
After: a little narrower

Full width

Fill the screen with one window. Press it again to go back to the width it had.

⌃⌘F
Terminal
Cursor
Safari
Before
Cursor
After: the whole screen

Center column

Bring a window that's off to one side back to the middle of the screen.

⌃⇧⌘C
Cursor
Safari
Notes
Before: Cursor at the edge
Terminal
Cursor
Safari
After: centered

Side by side, and closing

Two windows, half each, for when you need to see both. And a clean way out when you're done with one.

Snap to left half

Cursor takes the left half of the screen and Safari, beside it, fills the right.

⌃⌘←
Terminal
Cursor
Safari
Before
Cursor
Safari
After: half and half

Snap to right half

Cursor takes the right half and Terminal, beside it, fills the left.

⌃⌘→
Terminal
Cursor
Safari
Before
Terminal
Cursor
After: half and half

Close and focus neighbor

Close the focused window. The next one slides into its place with focus, so you never land on nothing.

⌃⌘W
Terminal
Cursor
Safari
Before
Terminal
Safari
Notes
After: Cursor closed, Safari in focus

Make them yours

These are the defaults. Every shortcut can be changed in Settings › Shortcuts, and GlidePane tells you when one clashes with another app.