MacBackroom
MacBackroom is a macOS menu bar app for fast Space switching and a small set of efficiency-focused system controls.
- Switch to the left or right Space from the menu bar popup
- Trigger switching with global shortcuts:
⌃⌥⌘←and⌃⌥⌘→ - Block repeated overshoot input near the Space boundary
- Adjust Dock Space animation, autohide delay, and autohide animation speed, then restart Dock to apply changes
- Show the current managed Space snapshot and refresh it manually
- Download the latest packaged app from Releases
- The release build is not code signed
- macOS may block the first launch; use Finder
Openonce, or remove the quarantine attribute manually:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/MacBackroom.app- Grant Accessibility permission after launch so the app can send the switching gesture
git clone https://github.com/OneChirpZ/MacBackroom.git
cd MacBackroom
xcodebuild -project MacBackroom.xcodeproj -scheme MacBackroom -derivedDataPath .DerivedData build- You can also open MacBackroom.xcodeproj in Xcode and run it directly
- macOS only
- Uses private
SkyLightAPIs and synthetic gesture events - Not suitable for App Store distribution