In the Mission Control preference, set the separate displays option. You will need to log out and back in to have it. If you don’t see the Options Assign To item in the Dock for apps you check, launch Mission Control. (Press a dedicated. On the main display, click the + sign at far right. Jan 18, 2018 Mac OS X adjusts the amount of memory as the application requires more or less space. However, you do need to set an application's memory size if you are running an application in Mac OS X's Classic environment. To do this, follow these directions: Determine how much memory is available and accessible to your computer. How to find Saved Wi-Fi Password on Mac; When you open the app, you have the possibility to assign it to the different desktops using the quick menu, which is displayed by clicking the Dock icon with the right mouse button. Then, place the cursor over the Options heading and select the specific space in the Assign To section. OS X Yosemite (and Mavericks), by default in a clean install, provide for each monitor, in a multiple monitor system, to have its own display Spaces. The immediate symptom is a rather confusing. I have two displays: iMac and a secondary monitor. I've setup a space for both displays using Mission Control. As such, I can now right-click on any app in my dock and set the option to 'Assign to Desktop on Display 2'. Unfortunately, when I restart my computer, this preference seems to be reset. How to Open Mission Control. RELATED: How to Use Your Macbook's Trackpad Gestures You can access multiple desktops in a number of ways. To access it, swipe up with three or four fingers on your trackpad—the number of fingers you need to use depends on how you have your trackpad set up.You can also just tap the F3 button on your Mac, the Mission Control icon in the dock, or by pressing.
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Well, at least this makes spaces 'usable' again. Now if only ctrl+arrow would wrap from the last space back to the first space like it used to we'd be back in business.
Apologies for this being a little off-topic but... I haven't tried using Lion yet, but for us unix users, the whole idea of assigning an application to a particular space is anathema. Rather than being application centric, I prefer to organize my spaces around projects, i.e. have each project I'm working on with all it's associated documents, images, etc. assigned to a particular space. 10.5 and 10.6's application-centered spaces are really hard to use for old-school unix users like me. It sounds like 10.7 might improve on that, but it's hard to tell.
If you have the application assigned to 'none' then you can move have different windows for the same application open in different spaces. You seem to have to open it where Lion expects it to go (in the same window as the rest of the application) and then move it by itself in Mission Control to the appropriate desktop, but you can do it.
Applications that are restarted at login (due to the 'Reopen windows when logging back in' checkbox) do not honor their assigned spaces.
For example, I have iTunes assigned to space 3. If I'm logged in and it's not already running, it correctly starts up in space 3 when I click its icon in the dock. This is true regardless of what space I'm in when I click the icon. This is the expected behavior.
But if I leave iTunes open when logging out, along with the above checkbox checked, then iTunes will appear in space 1 (along with everything else) next time I login. This is true of all applications with specific assigned spaces. It is not the correct/expected behavior.
I suppose I should file a bug report with Apple.
That is not my experience. The apps open exactly in the Space that they are assigned, even when they are opened by Lion's Resume feature after a restart.
Interesting. So apparently, this bug is not universal, which means it may be harder for Apple to reproduce and track down. I'll have to play around with it some more and see if I can identify any conditions that trigger it or make it go away. For now, I just know that it happens every time on my user account.
This didn't work for me. Options only has three items, Keep in Dock, Open at Login and Show in Finder. Is there some other setting I'm missing?
Probably you only have one single space... Enter Mission Control and add at least one more. Then, try again with the Dock menu. Hope it is helpful for you.
That fixed it. But now, when I open the application it shifts to that space, but the upper bar isn't visible, so I can't control the application. I want to use this with VMWare so that my one need for Windows won't sit on the main space.
Roboot fixed it. Curious.
You have to have created additional desktops in addition to the default one before you assign the app to it. You cannot assign an application to a desktop that doesn't exists at the time you try to assign it. Not sure what happens if you delete a desktop that has applications assigned, but I assume that application just reverts to default behavior and opens in the current desktop.
I don't understand the usefulness of this feature. There are times I find myself with 4 or 5 desktops, usually because I took Safari or something out of full screen mode. However, when I restart they are all gone and I'm back to just one. Plus every time I go into Mission Control things are rearranged since last I saw them. Desktops in Lion just seem more temporary than they were in Snow Leopard's Spaces.
I just tried this hint and if you delete the space or restart, it doesn't re-create the replacement desktop for it. I would think an option to create a new desktop when an application launches might be more useful.
To stop spaces rearranging themselves, head over to System Preferences > Mission Control and uncheck the checkbox next to 'Automatically rearrange spaces based on most recent use' . I'm pretty sure this is checked by default and if unchecked should stop the spaces rearranging themselves!
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It doesn't seem to work for 'launchpad' either. I would like launchpad to be on my 2nd desktop...swiping left or right saves a locate and click to open the program. ...Any ideas?
Some quirks i noticed
* Desktops could be listed in any order, but Desktop 1 would be the left most after the widgets/apps
* From Desktop 1 you cant 'scroll left' to the right most desktop like before
* Office Communicator : when new messages appears it would appear in the Desktop which you are currently working on.
* QNAP's qget : similarly sometimes when opening a torrent it would switch to the desktop which is running qget while the window appears in the Desktop you were on.
* Canary, Chronium : Full screen mode could appear anywhere between Desktop1 to anywhere else;
noted something wierd, <Desktop 1> <Desktop 2> <Canary Fullscreen> <Desktop 3>, If my finder is on Desktop 1, from <Canary Fullscreen> i use 3 fingers swipe up to bring mission control and then choose Finder window. So now i'm in <Desktop 1> then i use <Alt>+<Tab> to switch back to <Canary Fullscreen>. Next i bring up mission control and it is now listed as <Desktop 1> <Canary Fullscreen> <Desktop 2> <Desktop 3>
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Works with Mavericks, too.
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