Workflow preset

Window Management: layout for Mac

Window Management can be driven from a game controller, a MIDI pad, or an adaptive controller on a Mac. InputConfig sends real keyboard and mouse events, so the app sees an ordinary keyboard and mouse. This is the layout the app's Smart Preset Maker builds for it: Mission Control, Spaces, fullscreen, app switch.

Get the preset in two clicks

  1. Open InputConfig and click Smart Preset Maker on the welcome screen.
  2. Search for Window Management and pick it. The layout below is created as a preset in your sidebar, named and ready.
  3. Press Activate. Every row can be changed afterwards: the editor's Scan button rebinds any control the moment you touch it.

The full button map

ControllerSendsWhat it does
A / CrossCtrl (Left), UpMission Control (Ctrl+Up)
B / CircleCtrl (Left), DownApp windows (Ctrl+Down)
X / SquareCommand (Left), TabSwitch app (Cmd+Tab)
Y / TriangleCommand (Left), HHide app (Cmd+H)
D-pad leftCtrl (Left), LeftSpace left (Ctrl+Left)
D-pad rightCtrl (Left), RightSpace right (Ctrl+Right)
LB / L1Command (Left), Ctrl (Left), FToggle fullscreen
RB / R1Command (Left), MMinimize (Cmd+M)
Left stick leftMouse motion left (speed 16)Cursor left
Left stick rightMouse motion right (speed 16)Cursor right
Left stick upMouse motion up (speed 16)Cursor up
Left stick downMouse motion down (speed 16)Cursor down
Right triggerLeft clickClick

Button names follow the Xbox / PlayStation pair shown in the editor, so A / Cross is the bottom face button on either pad. On a Switch Pro Controller the bottom button is labelled B; the mapping still fires on position.

Tips

  • Face buttons open Mission Control, app windows, the app switcher, and hide.
  • D-pad left and right move between Spaces.

Make it yours

Nothing here is fixed. Rows can be re-scanned to a different control, given hold and double-tap actions, chords, turbo, macros, haptic or spoken feedback, and per-binding deadzones and sensitivity curves. The binding editor guide covers every option, and the controller map shows what each control is called.

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