Spaces? Expose? Mission Control? OS X Lion? What?
For everyone asking “What happened to Spaces and Expose?” You need to understand that Expose & Spaces are alive and well. However, they’ve merged into one kick-ass feature and got a new name in OS X Lion. (Check out my OS X Lion Review)
What you’ve used and loved as Expose and Spaces is now called “Mission Control”.
Click the image above for the actual-size image of my Mission Control setup.
Mission Control in OSX Lion
Mission Control is a combination of Expose and Spaces. It allows you to quickly see all running apps (like Expose used to do). Plus, you can move apps into their own “Desktops”, just like you could in Spaces.
Desktops are the new Spaces in OSX Lion. It’s the exact same idea, but with a different name and layout. Spaces had a grid layout. Now your Dashboards are in single horizontal layout at the top of the Mission Control Screen.
Hot Corners still work in OS X Lion. Which is a must for me so I’m glad to see they’re still here. I’ve setup the top, right corner of my screen to as a Hot Corner. When I push the cursor there, Mission Control opens. If you’re a fan of the Hot Corner feature, you’ll have no problems adjusting to the new setup.
Are you accustomed to pressing the F3 key to open Expose? Don’t worry, the F3 key still works as you’d expect – it opens the new Mission Control.
Assigning Apps to Desktops
In Spaces you could assign an app to always open in a specific space. For example, I had Mail set to open in Space #1 and iTunes set to Space #2. Apparently, that’s not possible in the new Mission Control / Desktops.
This is the only feature I can’t find in Mission Control. If you know where it is, please leave a comment on this blog post!
Mission Control Kicks Ass
When Expose & Spaces were introduced years ago, I never thought I’d use them. The idea just didn’t work for me. However, I became a huge fan after playing around with them. In fact, in 2008 I wrote a tutorial on spaces. Then I wrote a second post on how I didn’t think Apple could possibly improve Spaces…
Was I wrong.
I love Mission Control. I think the combination of Desktops and open apps is genius. Plus, it’s the perfect way to flip / swipe through your full-screen apps.
Mission Control was obviously built for full-screen apps and gestures… A strategy that aligns perfectly with Apple’s current path of selling more MacBooks and eventually replacing the mouse with the Magic Trackpad.
Automatically assigning a full-screen app to a new desktop, then swiping to flip through all apps is brilliant. I’ve already become dependent on apps having the full-screen feature – just so I can flip through them. This type of sorting through apps is much faster than the old Spaces / Expose format.
In fact, I’m severely disappointed when an app doesn’t have the new full-screen mode. (I’m looking at you TextEdit and Address Book!)
Try Mission Control for a few days. It takes some time to get familiar, but you’ll love it.
Just found out how to assign an open app to a desktop:
1. Switch to (or create a new one by hovering your cursor over the top-right corner of the Mission Control view and click on the ‘+’ icon that appears) the desktop you want to have an open app be assigned to.
2. Right-click (or two-finger-tap, or click-and-hold) the app icon on the Dock to bring up the context-sensitive menu.
3. Select the “Options” menu item. You’ll see a sub-menu named “Assigned To.”
4. Select the “This Desktop” menu item on the sub-menu. You’re done!
Awesome tip Ray! Thank you.
Thank you so much. I had an issue with rogue windows popping up in inaccessible spaces that I couldn’t for the life of me figure out. It would appear that they were “assigned” to spaces that had full screen apps running and so I could not interact with them. An example would be a child window opening up from a browser in its native window instead of on top of the current browser screen. Pain in the rear end. Thanks for the tip.
I understand how to open the new window but I can not figure out how to pull the menu to assign a function like ITunes by using the menu bar. Also if I change the background is it only for screen say 2?
Not working for me, the apps still want to open wherever they find space, even though I’ve assigned them to a specific desktop.
I’m with Brill when I try to set the Finder to ‘All Spaces’ spaces remembers for a little while then decides not to anymore at some point
How did you get the app Pandora works on the dock?? i am just curious
Hi Moe – The Pandora desktop app is available to people with a paid subscription. You can get more details here: http://www.pandora.com/desktop_app
Thank you Ray!!! I did spend some time looking for that.
What I’m really missing in Mission Control is the ability to mix Spaces and Expose. I used this for two things:
* to get an overview which windows I’ve open (in contrast to tabbing between applications which only shows me which applications I’m currently running) – in Missing Control I only can see the windows of the current space, to this is essentially Expose
* rearrange application windows to the various spaces – in Mission Control I’m only able to push windows from the current space to other spaces but I can’t fetch windows from other spaces without switching the space first and having to re-enter Mission Control
So I’m really waiting for a third party application which brings back the combined power of Expose and Spaces …
This is exactly why i cant stand Mission Control.
I lived by Expose within Spaces. It was my main means of navigation and organization. I miss it all day.
I switch between Spaces by just using apple key+arrow key. Can I do that with Mission Control?
Hi Michael – No, command+arrow keys do not flip through the spaces in Lion. You’ll have to swipe horizontally on the trackpad or launch Mission Control. Swiping is the easiest I think.
Actually, perhaps things have changed since you posted this article, but you can switch between spaces with Control+arrow keys. But swiping does seem to be easiest. I’m trying to figure out the best way to marry keyboard and mouse navigation…switching between them frequently takes time.
…and that’s what I get for not reading the next comment on the list. Forgive my redundancy!
Four Finger swipe switches between spaces. Much simpler in my opinion than any button combination.
Use control-arrow to switch between spaces.
Thanks Chris! Control + Left / Right Arrow keys will switch between desktops.
Thanks Ray for the tips… I never expect to find it in the Dock…
Has anyone figured out how to get a view of all the desktops, from which you can drag windows between desktops? This was Sven’s 2nd point (7-25 9:46).
Yes, I can still move a single window to an adjacent space, but I’ve lost the ability to get an overview of all the spaces and rearrange multiple windows.
I have the same Q as Larry above.
I use 6 spaces. I assign apps to those spaces. When I want to switch between Mail (space 1) and iTunes (space 6), I swipe my mouse to the top right corner, bringing up the overview, and quickly click on space 6 to bring up mail.
I understand the desktop swipe thing … but does that mean I have to swipe 5 times to get to iTunes if it is the last of 6 apps open ?
Another major concern I have is this:
I regularly have two apps open in the same space so that I can coordinate my work on once specific doc. A Word doc. on the left and an excel spreadsheet on the right (even though they open in diff spaces, I drag one doc from it’s space to the other for this specific instance).
Can I keep both open in the same desktop in Lion ?
Howard – if you go to mission control (e.g., three finger upward swipe, or hot key as set in preferences), you can click on the desktop you want and go there instantly. As for the 2nd question – you can certainly have two apps open in the same space. If you have things set up to open apps in dedicated spaces, then they won’t initially be in the same space. You can move a window (in my case, by clicking and holding the click down, then entering alt-arrow; I think the default setting is ctl-arrow). But if you want to move multiple windows, then you have to ctl-arrow with one, use ctl-arrow to return to the original space, click on the next window you want to move, ctl-arrow to the new space, etc, until you have moved them all. In mission control you CANNOT drag things from one space to another, as you could in the old expose view. Hopefully someone will post a way to regain that functionality …
You sure can!! You can drag windows from the current desktop to the thumbnail of any other desktop while in Mission Control
enjoy
Same complaint as SVEN, Larry, and Howard. Besides the gesture control, mission control feels more like a downgrade than an upgrade to me. Besides that… everything about Lion is awesome. I hope the boys are cooking something to solve this little nuisance.
yes …please cook up a toggle in preferences…..mission control or spaces & expose ….its that simple apple….just re-install snow leopard…blisss !!!!!!
I agree with most of the complains. Mission control is somewhat of a downgrade (or noob intro) to spaces as it was before. I use a dual monitor setup, and had 3 vertically arranged spaces to create 6 stacked desktops, each app has it’s home. Not only is that impossible, but I can’t flip through them with cmd+arrows either? Very disappointing… Warp doesn’t work any more, and I personally think my numerous programmed gestures (via magicprefs) were more useful than the limited functionality and customization options offered with lion. Another complaint is that fullscreen anything lacks dual monitor support. I think the other features are great but I’m disappointed by the fact that my most basic nav commands are kaput.
After playing with Lion for a few hours, I think I will take the last comment back. My solution might not work for everybody BUT I found the following to be even better than the old expose. First, I deleted all of my windows except one. Then, I open the apps I use all the time in full screen (iTunes, safari, mail, etc). Finally, I open everything else in that last one window and Voila! using one swipe or hot corner, I have all my windows in one screen and I’ll even dare to say it looks way better and it’s easier to use than my previous 9 screens expose.
In response to Larry’s last post, you can drag apps and windows in mission control, but now only from the currently selected desktop to another. You’ll have to switch to each specific desktop to drag any of it’s windows out.
Larry, if you mean drag one window to a different space, yes you can. I dragged them around all the time when I was using several spaces.
To assign an app to a space/desktop, right click on its icon while it is in the dock. (Open the app so it shows up there if you don’t have it in the dock permanently). Select “options” from the menu that pops up. You can choose “This Desktop” and “All Desktops.” So, if you want the app to appear only in Desktop 7, open the app in Desktop 7, and select “This Desktop.”
The behavior is much more predictable and reasonable than in Snow Leopard. I think it’s different, anyhow, and it definitely acts more intuitively, but maybe that’s the placebo effect
I couldn’t find this in the comment thread! I hope it doesn’t duplicate something someone already said.
Thus far, after playing with Lion for 2 days; my biggest complaints are about Spaces’ new iteration in Lion (re: hamstringing). I didn’t start using spaces until I started at my present job about 2 years ago; but I relied on it to keep my communication programs (mail, iChat, various messengers) in 1 space; dreamweaver & terminal in another (and I use them both at the same time when I am writing code & testing it); my remote access apps in another space, and my virtual computers in yet another. I also keep safari open to things like netflix or pandora (and Facebook) in a 6th window.
So while I have been getting by with 3 desktops; switching from 1 to 3 means I have to go through 2, or use the mouse (so passé); gone are the simple switching via keyboard command direct to where you want to go. And frankly, the switching is slow (it actually hurts my eyes to watch it). My other problem is that I tended to have Safari open in multiple windows, so the old standby of Apple(command) tab doesn’t work for that.
Speaking of Safari, it is also annoying to have it open multiple windows when I relaunch it. Call me crazy, but I don’t want 10 windows with 3 tabs each opening when I launch Safari. I turned off the computer auto-resuming all my apps; but I would like a clean work environment when I launch a given app. What is the point of being able to QUIT an app, if you are forced to close all the windows later (I mean seriously, are we in Redmont again)?
The copying files is also potentially problematic. I can choose to ‘keep both’; but I can’t choose to NOT copy duplicates anymore. I think I’ll have to RSYNC via terminal from here on in.
Lastly, HP print drivers. Where exactly are they? Since 10.6 decided that we didn’t want to download them from HP’s site and install that way; we can’t exactly get a 10.6 driver and use it in Lion at least directly.
Complaining aside, there are a few features that I really like. Auto-saving is nice, but odd; resizing the windows from anywhere is great; and being able to easily delete attachments in mail is also handy.
I find the “Mission Control” to be a step back as far as I am concerned.
When seeking information on the net, I have a habit of skipping through a number of sites (following related links) via new tabs. This may end up with me having Chrome open with 6 windows (different subjects) with – say – 5 tot 10 tabs each for a related (and relevant!) site.
Under Snow Leopard, at least, you had the ability to see a miniature of one of the “windows” as it spread out across the whole space. Withe Lion you get basically nothing which can guide you to the right window. Much of the focus and screen space is devoted to the “desktops” (which I miss as well) and the rest is narrowed down proportionally to a state where it is practically useless: I cannot distinguish the windows and select one specific based on features known to be on the ‘visible’ tab of the particular window.
I also don’t like the new “Mission Control”. I hope, Apple will bring back the old “Expose & Spaces”…
you can just secondary click an application and then hit assign to, go to the desktop you want, etc.
its pretty easy once you figure out where it is.
Wanted to thank @Ray for the first comment – didn’t know I could + a new desktop.
What I’m most frustrated by is the full screen functionality – with multiple windows in one application open (and not in full screen) you can use command – ` to switch between the windows quickly. In full screen, that functionality is completely gone – and the windows of the app get spread across multiple spaces if you’re not careful.
I want full screen, but I want all windows in one app in the same virtual space so I can command – ` between them
You can move applications between desktops (spaces) by going into Mission Control, then while holding down the option key click on the desktop containing the app(s) to be moved. (Holding down the option key will keep you in Mission Control as it switches to the selected desktop or full screen app.) Drag each app to be moved from the “current” desktop to the desired destination desktop.
Mission Controll is a complete failure! Its lacky and not good in any way for your fast workflow switching back n’ forth..
BRING BACK EXPOSE!
I really love the new mission control, the problem i find is that when having multiple monitor connected to my MBP 2011 i7 quad core the animations are jerky and slow and sometimes do not happen at all… pretty crappy when the machine cost me 2300 lol! still though! they are very nice when I’m just on the laptop screen!
I only use one desktop, when using Mission Control I see my single desktop at the top of the screen. Total waste of expose real estate…
Tony, in your initial screenshot which is displaying Mission Control, you’ve got the names of the applications displayed rather than the usual “desktop 2, desktop 3″ etc.. How did you manage that? Thanks!
Doug
Hi Doug – apps in full screen mode show the app name in Mission Control.
Oh, by the way guys… you can also option + 1,2,3,4 etc.. to the desktop you want to get to. It’s not only option and the arrow keys.
Can anyone tell me how to assign individual folders to different desktops? as I’d like to have one space for home , with all my movies etc, and another space for college with all the relative folders, and another one for work , with the relative folders.
Also, i can’t seem to just click a date to add something to it? I tried to add a triathlon date to 2012, and had to use the thing in the top left corner and manually type in the date?
Thanks in advance for any help
Michael
Wanted to point out that like Doug said you can use control + 1,2,3,etc to open a specific desktop. I used to use this a lot with the old spaces. However one bug ( I assume it’s a bug hope it gets fixed) is that control + 1,2,3,4 works for me, however 5 and up do not. So I can only switch to the first 4 desktops, and I was used to using 6 spaces. I did find if I used control + 1,2,3,4 and held down the control key and then hit 5,6,7,8,9 it would then switch me to that desktop. I do not want to switch to desktop 1 before going to 6 everytime though, so not happy with that.
I do not agree on this. To me and to the way I have been working for years Mission Control is a big step back. The bad thing is that it is not the only “new feature” that caused me problems and pushed me to move back to Snow Leopard (for now) and look back at Linux (for future, unless Lion becomes a real OS and not a modified iOS).
Chris you’re a legend, I used to constantly drag windows from one desktop to another with ctrl-arrow, however with the mini keyboards and one ctrl key my hand simply can’t stretch that far. so ctrl 1,2,3 is ace thank you…solved my work daily annoyance!
For the first time ever I’ve down graded from an apple upgrade. In the past I’ve just rolled with upgrades and recognized improvements as advances and adapted the way I use the computer to suit. I have just not been able to get to grips with MC particuly spaces, it’s cumbersome,annoying when it decides a space is less or more important to you and moves it either up or down the line, screen size is to small to see what you have open, can’t move open apps into other spaces easily. As this discussion is centered around expose, spaces this is surely and issue that needs addressing unfortunately the first upgrades out and it has not been addressed.
Thank you, Adam! So glad to be able to assign apps to spaces again!
I’m on the “giant step backwards” side of things. Spaces plus Expose was superb in that you could get a nice overall view of every single app window/pane that you had open on multiple monitors, and drag anything from one space to another.
At work Lion crushed my workflow. For the first time in my life I reverted a version of OSX and I’m now back to 10.6.
Maybe as a developer I was just used to being able to do that. I’m not sure what I would think of Lion as a casual user.
To assign a app to a desktop window in Lion, just right click the app, under options you have the choice to assign it there. Hope this helps.
I hate Mission Control.
I never used spaces because I’ve had no use for multiple desktops, so fusing it with Expose just wastes my time and fills my window with clutter.
and on top of that, Mission Control is disorganized and ugly. Expose displayed all of the open windows in a convenient, easily browsed grid. Mission control slaps everything on the screen like a hyperactive child tossing papers onto a desk, and it doesn’t show the window fully – it awkwardly hides them behind the main open one. App Expose is useless as well, because it only shows one application’s windows. I can only think of a few professions that have that many windows from one application open – especially considering the modern web browser automatically opens new things in tabs instead of windows.
useless and cumbersome.
To everyone who keeps saying you can assign app to a desktop window….it is slightly FUBAR and does not work right.
Example….
4 desktops. Assign BBEdit to any specific desktop. Go to another Desktop. Open BBEdit. Woooosh, you zip over to the target desktop. And then wooooosh, you zip right back to the desktop you started in. Then BBEdit opens.
I’m compiling a list of major apps that show similar broken behavior. Then I’ll throw that list away, since noone at Apple will care. They’ll blame it on the app devs.
I think Launchpad is horrible, just a lot of iOS clutter. Plus you can’t customize it easily without third-party software. When it’s a little screen, it is mildly irritating to move apps, when it is a desktop Mac with a LOT of apps it is a horrible idea.
Mission Control I can get used too, it seems a better way to organize your running apps and their windows. Plus I would like the option to set all desktops with the same picture, rather than just one at a time.
Mission Control is terrible. I hardly ever had any use for Expose, and now the it takes up 90% of the space. I can no longer see what’s on each desktop like I could with Spaces, because the desktops are tiny little thumbnails where you can’t tell what anything on them is. I can’t move things from one desktop to another without first navigating to the desktop I wanted to move it out of. Then I can tell for sure what’s on the other desktops to know which one I need to move it into.
Now that the desktops are all in a line, it’s a lot slower to navigate between them than with Spaces. Also, I can’t organize them by stacking related screens on top of each other. (For example: Development open on top. Production environment open on bottom.) I used to be able to have multiple projects open at once and keep them organized using that scheme. Now all I can do is scroll through a bunch of random things until I find what I need.
I fail to see anything useful about Launchpad.
I’ve figured out how to assign apps to specific desktops. My problem is, this does not seem be permanent. When launching the computer (from restart or full shut down), the apps I have assigned appear back on desktop 1. Under their options, they still seem to ‘remember’ that they were assigned to another desktop, but they open on desktop 1 anyway. So, even if I have created other desktops, they are empty. Anyone have a fix for this?
This blows. I’m sorry. I used to have 4 spaces and would switch between VMWare and other programs in each desktop space. If I wanted a F*ing iPad I would buy one. All they did was change my laptop into a iPad with a keyboard. Give me back my spaces. If I had known I was going to lose that, I would not have Downgraded to Lion.
Not trying to be mean but are you kidding me? Mission control is an absolute step in the wrong direction. When before I could easily SEE and switch between all my instances of some program, now I can only guess at which thumbnail is the right space. Which is also impossible as you can’t see the stacked windows in another space in mission control.
Say i’m in window one-internet and I want to switch to my circuit diagram pdf in window ____. If that pdf is stacked beneath other ones in the window, there is NO way to tell where it is. Whereas with spaces + expose, I could see EVERYTHING at once and more importantly, move anything anywhere. Now with multiple word docs or something in a single window, mission control lets me see a useless stack of how many docs I have here, not which one is which. Utterly useless.
Anyone who says mission control is better- or even useful-obviously doesn’t use their mac as a professional. In that case, yes the flashy “lets make a desktop iOS” might have some appeal. For the rest of us who rely on the Mac to be QUICK EFFICIENT and INTUITIVE, mission control (and lion, for that matter) are absolute flops.
Thank you very little, Apple.
Sincerely, Snow Leopard Upgrader
Take a look at this – it’s easy
http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/11/assign-apps-to-desktops-in-mission-control/
Didn’t like mission control eigther… at first. Really missed Expose. Basicaly it it still their. If you haven’t changed mission control shortcuts in the Sys.Prev, “control + arrow up” brings up mission control, but “control + arrow down” will bring up expose the way we loved it of the active app at that time, for ex. safari, separating the minimized windows below etc… “Command + tab” still works as well, to toggle between apps in Expose.
Regarding spaces, didn’t really liked it anyway
Basicaly now you can fullscreen an app, in mission control, all apps in fullscreen are a space and as i read above one could assign apps to a new desktop (first post), so there you go…
Spaces had some issues. I do work on a mac professionally. But organizing apps in spaces often s**cked. For example all web apps (MAMP, netbeans, dreamweaver, fireworks etc) in a space. Great, but what about browsers where you want to test out what you are doing… Only 3 options: Include them in the same space, Toglle as hell between apps AND spaces or option 3: Disable spaces
) … in this way, finding out how to expose apps, mission control or spaces… i prefer mission control, but rarely use it
I am really unhappy with Lion, I’ve been with Mac about 2.5 years now and I wish I could revert to Snow Leopard, the loss of functionality and OPTIONS in Lion has really upset me, I’ve given it nearly a month and I constantly pine for my old features.
* rearrange application windows to the various spaces – in Mission Control I’m only able to push windows from the current space to other spaces but I can’t fetch windows from other spaces without switching the space first and having to re-enter Mission Control
One more for bringing back Exposé + Spaces as before. Mission Control = totally out of control for me. Workflow nightmare is more like it. I have an older macbook w/o gesture support, but I don’t think gestures will change my mind. There is no spatial coherence in Mission Control.
Mission control is nice, but not that usefull compared to Expose in SL. Furthermore, several tools and libs have changed. installing mysql for example is almost impossible. Last but not least, alfa, the vendor of the awus036h wireless usb device has obviously seen the problems with lion and decided to NOT supply drivers for this card (which is awesome under linux).
I have spend 60 euro for the usb stick. The installation was a huge pain and the system crashed every 5 minutes because of the nvidia bug. I updated to 10.7.2 and now the system is finally stable. I must say: the 60 Euro where a mis-investment. I should have bought a proper harddisc … but since ubuntu 11.10 is also horribly broken and windows is no option… it’s just simply sad….
Apple fanboy writes about “kick-ass feature”, oh my god! Read my lips, fanboy: Mission Control is shit! So is Lion, and you fanboys please shut up cause you don’t have the first clue about computing and user interfaces.
MacPaul – I think Lion and Mission Control kick ass. If you don’t, then explain why… back up your argument … instead of name calling and looking like a 3rd grader.
I agree with most of the people on here. I just “upgraded” to Lion and I’m sooo disappointed. I cannot interact with my Mac as fast as I used to. The whole reason I bought this big 17″ Macbook Pro is so I could use expose and spaces and see all my windows open at the same time. I can no longer do that with Mission Control. I have tried the two-figer up-sweep to expand multiple windows in one application group and it works great when you have two or three windows, but once you get to four it is pretty useless. You go from seeing a quarter of an inch of the window’s edge to one inch. Hmm… Not liking it. The idea of having all applications as full-screen is not bad but it is also limited. The more windows you add, the smaller their preview and you cannot adjust the magnification settings like you can with the dock.
Personal opinion here.. Apple tip-toed into Mission Control (versus making broad sweeping changes) and I think it is a bit of a failure. I think they should probably focus on full screen applications, drop the dock completely, and make the application view much more like the old spaces/expose look. I.e They can marry these concepts together well, but they haven’t quite hit the mark.
Does anyone know how to downgrade back to Snow Leopard without using an old time machine backup (I’ve made file changes since the upgrade)? i think I’ll wait until they fix this before coming back…
I hate Mission Control. Spaces was crucial to my work-flow. I’m considering going back to Snow Leopard.
No matter what anyone else says, Mission Control != Exposé & Spaces. Some people may find it easier to use, but the fact remains that they are not the same thing. By all means add new features like Mission Control, but Apple should at least have given existing users the option to have it the old way. We can choose whether we want the dashboard as a space, so why can’t we choose to get rid of the disgrace that is Mission Control?
Spaces should be in a grid, on their own. Not in one long line. Having them laid out inline is ok if you’re using Mission Control to find your space – IF you only have a small number (say two or three) of spaces and full screen apps. I understand they have to be inline for swiping between them to work, but there’s no reason we can’t have a grid overview like we were used to using in Leopard and Snow Leopard.
Keyboard navigation seems to have been stripped too. What’s the point in having a dedicated MC button if you can’t then use the arrow keys to select a window? It’s messy as it is, what with the massive app icons and the clustered windows, but lack of keyboard navigation renders it unusable at times.
Way back in the days of WinXP I used to have a tiny freeware utility that emulated the expose… Does anyone know if such an app exists for Lion? It’s clear that Apple couldn’t care less about their existing customers, so Im’ certainly not holding my breath for an update that brings back Expose & Spaces the way they should be.
Launchpad is another stupid idea, and to be quite honest I’d rather have the Dashboard button on F4, not Launchpad… It might work in iOS, but a Mac isn’t an iPhone or an iPad. As such, they should be treated separately. It seems to display apps from all sorts of random locations… I don’t even know what most of them are as they’re just utilities installed automatically by other apps.
This makes it incredibly difficult to find the app you want unless you waste your time organising everything manually. I hate the launchpad, it has no place on a desktop operating system. I’ve got my Applications stack which does the job just fine, without including all the crap that comes with things like the Adobe Master Collection.
Mission control is garbage. That is all.
+1 Mission Control == FAIL!!!
I have an issue when I move an app out of the original desktop I opened it in. It always takes me back to that desktop no matter if the windows are opening in the correct desktop…super frustrating. I would love MC if I could assign desktops to apps like spaces
I too find Mission Control a step backwards, but I’m trying to work with it….
Is there a way to get the Space name, i.e. Desktop 1, Desktop 2, etc via a CLI command? Applescript?
Sucks, period.
It is a step backwards: it changed from being RAM back to cassete tape.