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dolphinbuddy · 2 years ago

Thank you! That was making me nuts yesterday. I clicked "Finder" on the dock, and it switched spaces, and I almost threw my laptop through the wall. Then I went to try to add Finder to every space, and I couldn't remember where it was, and Spotlight wouldn't find it for me. Anyway, here's to being more productive today!

Franklin · 2 years ago

@dolphinbuddy - Glad I could help, I can't believe Apple didn't make this the default behavior.

Slagheap · 2 years ago

Good tip... nice to know that we have that option. I'm looking for something slightly different...

I have a few apps (Finder, MacVim, Terminal) that I want to be "active" in every space, but not duplicated in every space (which is what the above tip seems to do).

If I have a finder window open in one space, and then click the finder dock icon in another space... just launch a new window in the current space. Similarly I want to have different Terminal and text editor (MacVim) windows open in different spaces, without Spaces trying to group them together. Clearly, I can drag windows around after they launch to fix it, but it would be nice if they would show up where I launch them!

Anyone have ideas? -- Thanks

Franklin · 2 years ago

@Slagheap - Good question, I've had others ask for this ability before. I currently don't know of a solution. My guess is that this would have to be a feature of the application itself rather than Spaces. So for example MacVim would have to issue a 'new window' command instead trying to activate the current window located on a different space.

Helge · 2 years ago

I don't think its an application feature, just changed display/window policy. In DesktopManager on 10.4 it worked that way, you selected the application, you *stayed* on the space and could then issue New Window commands and such (menubar or keyboard). With Spaces you are brought to the Space which contains an open App-Window. Sigh ...

The current workaround is to right-click the dock icon (eg Safari) and select the "new window" in the context menu. Eg on Terminal.app this s*** because new terminal is not on the top-level, you need to navigate down a menu level ...

Same thing with window minis in the dock. In DesktopManager they would open on the current space. In Spaces they open on the space they got minimized on.

Then with DesktopManager you could see the contents of the spaces in the menubar, w/o bringing up the overlay or clicking the menubar icon. And you could configure spaces to F1...Fn, allowing single-click quick changes. And you could turn off the annoying desktop change animation.

Plenty of annoyances with Spaces ... Tip: You can bring back a few things by installing DesktopManager *in addtion* to spaces. This seems to work "ok".

Franklin · 2 years ago

@Helge - Good to know, I hadn't tried DesktopManager just VirtueDesktops. Perhaps someone can figure out how to make Spaces behave this way. As for DesktopManager, isn't that a PPC only application? I'm not sure I'd want to run it along side of Spaces on an Intel Mac if it required Rosetta. Are you using a PPC or Intel Mac with DesktopManager?

Gayle · 1 year ago

Thank you so much. You are my new best friend. I figured out that I wanted to give Finder access to all spaces, but as a relative newbie Apple user I couldn't find it. I was just on the verge of turning off spaces when I thought I'd have one more try to look up solutions. And there you were! Thank you!

Franklin · 1 year ago

@Gayle - Glad to help

HenrikAhlen · 1 year ago

Thanks! I was going nuts over this as well, trying to import videos into Keynote when Keynote is in Space 2. Great tip!

Franklin · 1 year ago

@Henrik - Glad to help! Did you see the other Leopard Tips ?

Gary S. · 1 year ago

Thank you for this tip - it's taken me some months to stagger into it while drifting around the net - it's something that has bothered me but not enough to search for an answer, now I've found a fix I'm rather happy.