Overview

Ever wanted to jump directly to your Nth desktop on Windows 10 or 11 with a keyboard shortcut of your choice? WinJump enables you to create custom shortcuts to jump to any desktop and cycle between groups of desktops.

Most other solutions use an AutoHotKey based solution which automates pressing the Windows default shortuct Win + Ctrl + Left Arrow or Right Arrow multiple times. This often results in glitchly visuals and lagging while jumping to the desktop you want. WinJump uses the excellent VirtualDesktop library which jumps directly to the desired desktop.

Features

Jump To

Jump directly to a desktop with Win + [ 0 - 9 ] (default).

Toggle Groups

Cycle through a group of desktops with a single shortcut (there are no groups by default).

Back and Forth

Pressing the shortcut for the desktop you are currently on will jump back to the last desktop you were on.

Installation

Supported versions

Currently, the following versions of Windows are supported:

Windows Edition	Version
Windows 10	1607-1709, 1803, 1809 - 21H2
Windows 11	21H2, 22H2

How to install

1. Download
2. Extract and run setup.exe
3. You're done! WinJump will start automatically and will register itself to start when your computer boots.

Config file

You can optionally include a configuration file named .winjump in your home directory to change the default behavior.

Syntax

There are two blocks:

• toggle-groups let you group desktops together and cycle through them with a keyboard shortcut
• jump-to lets you define shortcuts that jump directly to a desktop

Both blocks contain a list of items, each item has a shortcut property. This shortcut must be a combination of: win, alt, shift, and ctrl, it must be terminated by a key listed here, and each token must be separated by +.

Each toggle-groups item has the desktops property, which should be a list of positive integers, with 1 representing the first desktop.

Each jump-to item has the desktop property, which should be a single positive integer, with 1 representing the first desktop.

⚠️ If no .winjump config file is found or a syntax error exists within it, WinJump will use default key mappings.

⚠️ WinJump does not auto-reload your configuration file. To apply changes, restart WinJump via one of the following methods:

• launch task manager, kill WinJump, launch it again from the start menu
• log out and back in
• reboot

Example

Below is an example configuration file that changes the shortcut to alt+N to jump to a desktop and adds a toggle group that is triggered by alt+w that will cycle between desktops 1, 5, and 6:

// C:\Users\<UserName>\.winjump
{
  "toggle-groups": [
    {
      "shortcut": "alt+w",
      "desktops": [ 1, 5, 6 ]
    }
  ],
  "jump-to": [
    {
      "shortcut": "alt+d1",
      "desktop": 1
    },
    {
      "shortcut": "alt+d2",
      "desktop": 2
    },
    {
      "shortcut": "alt+d3",
      "desktop": 3
    },
    {
      "shortcut": "alt+d4",
      "desktop": 4
    },
    {
      "shortcut": "alt+d5",
      "desktop": 5
    },
    {
      "shortcut": "alt+d6",
      "desktop": 6
    },
    {
      "shortcut": "alt+d7",
      "desktop": 7
    },
    {
      "shortcut": "alt+d8",
      "desktop": 8
    },
    {
      "shortcut": "alt+d9",
      "desktop": 9
    },
    {
      "shortcut": "alt+d0",
      "desktop": 10
    }
  ]
}

Known issues

• Launching WinJump while it is already running will hang Windows explorer. To fix this you have to use ctrl+shift+esc to open task manager, kill all WinJump instances, use Run new task and type explorer, then start WinJump again