Can Alfred check for which Desktop Space I am in?

[gedeyenite]

I recently had to start using all my work applications within Microsoft Remote Desktop (MRD). I want to use that in its own macOS Desktop Space

If I am in a macOS Space, I want OPT+B to bring CHROME.app into focus, but if I am in the MRD space, I want OPT+B to trigger a macro that brings MRD into focus (and runs a macro in Keyboard Maestro for me).

Can Alfred check which space is in focus?

[vitor]

Unfortunately, Apple doesn’t provide APIs for interacting with different Desktops.

[gedeyenite]

Hmmm. Ok. Keyboard Maestro trickery may be my last result.

[FireFingers21]

@gedeyenite You can find your current Desktop Space by looking at the "com.apple.spaces" plist. It's located at "~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.spaces.plist", but you can read it from Terminal or a shell script using the "defaults read com.apple.spaces" command.

 

Each Space has a name/uuid (they're one in the same). There's a "Current Space" field that contains the uuid of the current Space, and a "Space Properties" field that contains the name of all the Spaces currently available. If you can figure out a script that matches the "Current Space" uuid with that of whichever Space your app is in, you should have a good basis for the workflow you're trying to accomplish.

[Floating.Point]

Another option is to use Hammerspoon (which can of course be called from Alfred if desired)

https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/hs.spaces.html