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The window you meant is on the other desk.

28 August 2026

Cmd-` is the official answer to "I have two windows of this app." It is a good answer on one Space, with nothing minimized, and nothing fullscreen. The moment a window is fullscreen it occupies its own Space, and the shortcut goes dark. People have been writing that down for a decade. The workaround is Mission Control, or the Dock, or a third-party Cmd-Tab clone.

The spiral does not care which Space a window is on. Minimized windows are cards. Fullscreen windows are cards. A tab on another desktop is searchable by its path. You pick it. VortexFlow raises that window, not the app's idea of a frontmost window.

The part that saves a live-share: right-click the card, Full Screen or Move to Display. VortexFlow leaves the Space first, then places the window. That is how a shared-screen window gets off the shared screen without you hunting the green button in a Space you cannot see.

None of this requires a particular mouse. Detect Button will take whatever extra button you press. A keyboard shortcut will open the same spiral if you would rather not touch the mouse at all. The overlay is the product. The input is whichever hand is free.

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