Prevent automatically switching between desktops while clicking on the application icon on the dock.

gogagubi wrote:

I asked something different. I don't need to assign the app to a particular space. I need to use the same app in different spaces with different content in it. I need to prevent automatic switching while clicking the icon on the dock.

Did you try Click and hold...?

In most apps (all the ones I have open at the moment, anyway), command-n will open a new window on the same desktop.

For the applications in question, click and hold their Dock icon and choose Options. What do you see under "Assign To"? In your case, you want "None" to be selected.

gogagubi wrote:

I didn't get what is the use of this option. When I turn it off if I click the application icon(on the dock) it's still switching to the other desktop(in which I have another open window of this app) instead of opening a new window on the current desktop. This behavior drives me crazy because sometimes I work on desktop #1 and throws me on desktop #N which can be somewhere at the end(If I use multiple desktops). Also, when I am sharing my screen it's very awkward because accidentally I am forced to share some unfamiliar content with people that are not related to it.

Is there any way to prevent such behavior?

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/d3210115-3eea-4267-aac7-005a687b26b6

Work in multiple spaces on Mac - Apple Support

Assign Apps to Specific Desktop Space - Apple Community

Which applications exhibit this problem? So far, I only encounter a problem if the application is Safari. If Safari has an open window which is hidden in the current desktop, when I click on the dock, instead of bringing up the hidden window (as, for example, it does do in TextEdit) the OS inexplicably switches to another desktop (and it's always desktop 2, for some reason). Is that what is happening to you? This behavior is new to Ventura. Feedback - macOS - Apple

"if I click the icon (i.e terminal to execute some git command or textmate to write some notes) on the dock if this app doesn't have a running window on that desktop it throws me somewhere on the irrelevant desktop"

The preference setting you indicated with your original post asks the OS to behave as you described. Yes?

I understand what you want.

So, is it set to None, and still opens in a different Desktop?