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Comment on Assign Applications to “Spaces” in OSX Lion by C

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:14:27 +0000

Hi Gyan,

Thank you for that link, the only issue is ‘Full Screen Apps’ essentially use their own Space when operating in Full Screen Mode.

This setting is not remembered when you launch the App Anew.

I think the fundamental problem with Lion and it’s Window management is the poor integration of the Full Screen Apps system – this alone should have it’s own System Preference Pane so you can manage them correctly – an OS blanket appliance so Software obeys specific rules – this has always been the way with OS X, why change that now?!

Comment on Parallels Caps Lock Reversed – A better fix by Brie

Brie — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:28:18 +0000

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I’ve read every other article on this and was not too keen on rebooting – didn’t seem like it would fix it. So I kept looking and voila! This was the fix!

Comment on Assign Applications to “Spaces” in OSX Lion by Gyan

Gyan — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:38:49 +0000

This was bothering me too!… I found the fix. It’s in two steps.

1) Read this on how to enable “apps for different spaces”: http://mattgemmell.com/2011/07/27/using-spaces-on-os-x-lion/

2) Once you do this you’ll see that it doesn’t work! Well, it does, but the default value does not match the option check box for any given app. In other words, to make an app appear across Desktops (when the Option is “All Desktops” and it doesn’t work now) all you need to do is change the Option value to something else then back to “All Desktops”, thus “re-entering” the value into the system and it worked for me.

Don’t know if it’ll stick after a reboot though…. Haven’t gotten that far but at least it can be done.

Hope this helps!

Comment on Parallels files corrupted? A quick fix (maybe). by m vlcngl

m vlcngl — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 17:43:15 +0000

thanks for taking the time to put this very important reminder up here…

Comment on Assign Applications to “Spaces” in OSX Lion by Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:34:27 +0000

Why can’t they just have spaces, mission control, launch control, and full customization of single and multi finger gestures optional for the user to choose? That would be the best way. The ‘tap tap + lift’ fingers off of mouse is awkward to expose the windows. I would like to tap tap and rest my fingers back on the mouse, it’s way more comfortable, and the action wouldn’t happen by accident. Not having a shortcut for the application switcher is missing too. And why does entering full screen mode create another space and move the app to a far off window? That messes the flow up even more, then you have to re-arrange the spaces to get them next to each other again.

Comment on Assign Applications to “Spaces” in OSX Lion by Robin

Robin — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:19:30 +0000

I hate Mission Control too! Spaces is so important to my work-flow that I’m considering reverting to Snow Leopard.

Comment on Make a Div Stick to the Bottom by Michael McCloy

Michael McCloy — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 20:38:58 +0000

One note – if you find that in some browsers (Safari on mac, and I think Chrome too) that as you resize the window, the footer starts to overlap the content in some situations, watch that you don’t have a height:100% on the wrapper div. Just leaving min-height:100% only on there fixes this one.

Comment on Assign Applications to “Spaces” in OSX Lion by Brett

Brett — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:27:22 +0000

So this was always there and available.
go to sys prefs
mission control
uncheck the checkbox next to “Automatically rearrange spaces based on most recent use”

Comment on OSX Lion Removes Functionality by TeMc

TeMc — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:41:12 +0000

There’s another annoying bug introduced in Lion.

If I’ve got Text Editor open in a Space (say Space 3) and click the dock icon (or do Cmd+N; creating a new document), I don’t get a window for that document in front of me.

The window isn’t even being created at all, not in the foreground, not in the background, not anywhere in this space. Not even in another space.

When I switch BACK to Space 1 (no sane user would naturally switch back to Space 1 manually, I just did this out of suspicion), and indeed, when I switched BACK to Space 1 and then focus the Dock icon for Text Editor, after half a second, a new window pops up for this new document, which I then have to manually drag to Space 3 where I wanted it.

It would make sense for a new window command in an App to execute it right away and show it in the space the user is currently in.

After some online searching I thought I perhaps had Text Editor assigned to Space 1, but this was not the case.

It’s not limited to Text Editor, I have the same problem with Firefox. When I have Firefox open (without any windows) and am in Space 2, clicking the Dock icon (which should open a new window as none is open), it doesn’t open. Instead I have to go back to Space 1 (which naturally causes active App focus reflected in the Menu Bar to switch from Firefox to Finder (which was the active App in Space 1 when I was last there), so I change focus back to Firefox, and then it comes.

Comment on Assign Applications to “Spaces” in OSX Lion by Chris

Chris — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:44:51 +0000

I found an app called Flying Windows – it will auto-minimize other apps when I switch between apps. You can even set exceptions. I had to tweak some settings (both in the app and in dock prefs), but it seems to do what I need. Hope this helps.