Keyboard
macOS gives you one. ⌥⌘D turns Dock hiding on and off. There is no shortcut to move the Dock to another display, none to show it on a second screen, and none to reach a particular app in it.
That is the whole of it. The Dock is a mouse target on macOS: everything else about it — where it lives, which display shows it, what it holds — is a trip to System Settings.
Docksmith is keyboard-first, so every one of its own docks and palettes answers to a chord. These are the defaults, and every one of them can be changed.
| Shortcut | What it does |
|---|---|
| ⌃⌘A | All open apps |
| ⌃⌘S | Search apps |
| ⌃⌘O | Open a file |
| ⌃⌘V | Focus mode |
| ⌃⌘W | Workspace |
| ⌃⌘K | Keyboard shortcuts |
| ⌃⌘P | Peek at all docks |
| ⌃⌘1…⌃⌘9 | Show or hide docks 1 to 9 |
| ⌃⌘0 | Show or hide the tenth dock |
⌃⌘P is held rather than tapped — the docks stay out while the keys are down. It is not registered at all when auto-hide is off, because there would be nothing for it to reveal.
The seven feature shortcuts live in Settings → General, and each dock gets its own in Settings → Docks. Click one and press the combination you want. There is a reset per shortcut and one for all of them.
Two honest limits. A shortcut needs at least two modifier keys. And macOS gives no way to know in advance whether another app already owns a chord, nor does it report the clash — so if one does nothing when you press it, record a different one and it works.
⌃⌘K puts every shortcut currently in force on one panel — the live list, not the defaults, so a chord you recorded shows exactly as you recorded it, and each dock's own appears beside the feature ones. Any key closes it.
Docksmith answers docksmith:// links, so Shortcuts, Raycast, BetterTouchTool or cron can trigger the same actions. Each dock's show, hide and toggle links are shown in its Docks tab; focus, the overview, both palettes and the shortcut sheet have their own.
There is deliberately no link for the peek: it lives on keys being held, and a URL has no way to say “released”.
A macOS Focus mode can run a Shortcut, and a Shortcut can open one of these — so your docks can follow your Focus.
macOS 14 (Sonoma) or later, on Apple silicon or Intel. The palettes and the docks work with no special permission; Accessibility is what the window features need — the overview, per-tile window lists, Focus mode and the workspace.
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More detail: changing a shortcut in the manual, the full reference, and the automation links.