Keyboard shortcuts for switching Spaces?

Solution 1:

You can enable this feature in the "Keyboard" preference pane.

1. Open System Preferences (e.g., from the Apple menu)
2. Click on the "Keyboard" preference pane
3. Go to the "Shortcuts" tab
4. Choose "Mission Control" from the menu on the left
5. Look in the box on the right for "Switch to Desktop 1"
6. Enable the feature by "checking" the check box
7. Be sure that the keyboard shortcut is "^1" ("^" means Control)

If you only have one desktop right now, then you will only see "Switch to Desktop 1", but by placing a checkmark in the box, the feature will be enabled as you add new desktops.

Solution 2:

Troubleshooting possibilities, assuming everything already looks OK re JM's answer...

• On a keyboard with a 10-key pad, the 10-key & qwerty numbers are separate controls. The default key commands use qwerty so you need to change them specifically to 10-key if that's what you use.

• Secondly, though the commands are added with each new Space, they are not enabled by default.

• Thirdly - if you have only the same number of Spaces as you have monitors - and also "Displays have separate Spaces" in Prefs > Mission Control - then Switching cannot work until you add one more Space

• Another possibility, courtesy of Avram [which I cannot test as I don't have anything to 'swipe' on]

  I believe this state occurs when you inadvertently make a swipe gesture while a ctrl-key is held down. I can't be sure of that, but the fix is to do exactly that: hold down the ctrl-key, and then do the desktop-switching swipe gesture (for me it is 3-finger swipe left or right).