I’ve mentioned before that I’ve been playing around with the beta of You Control: Desktops, You Software’s virtual desktops app on OS X. While the software has been working pretty well for me, the beta process has actually been less-than-spectacular with the Beta 1 still being the only version available (but for a very good reason) - despite an official expiration date of March 1st (a work-around for said limitation can be found further down on that same forum topic page).

One thing that Michael mentioned that he didn’t like about it was the lack of assigning hot-keys to specific desktops, which wasn’t really an issue for me. But as time wore on, I came around to share his point of view on the matter. So I posted a feature request to the forum and was delighted to find out that there’s a completely undocumented way of enabling this. Yay!

1. In the preferences panel (what you get when you first launch the app, or can bring up at any time by control-clicking the grey drop-down triangle-widget next to the thumbnails of your desktops in the menu bar and select “Configure…”), set the view to “Menu View” under the Menu tab.
2. Click on aforementioned gray drop-down triangle-widget in the menu bar
3. Highlight a desktop.
4. Do not release!
5. Enter in the desired hot-key combination for that desktop. You should then see the combination show up next to the name of desktop.
6. Repeat steps 3-5 ad nauseam (or for however many desktops you want to configure, whichever comes first)
7. Reset the view to “Palette View” (if preferable/applicable) in the preferences panel, and close said panel.