How to use spaces & mission control in MacBook Pro?

LeKibbitz wrote:

• Hi everyone,

I have searched, read articles, tried some stuff randomly, but I have to confess, it's a total fail.

My config:

MacBook Pro 14", SSD 1To, RAM 16GB.

• Sequoia 15.5

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My first concern is the most popular:

How to save our spaces as they are configured to get them back again in the same order, with the same application, the same window arrangement, etc ?

I have tried to add these apps in System Settings/General/Login Items and Extensions in the Open at Login section. I am thinking this is mandatory but could be wrong.

You can assign an app to a Desktop, and it should open in the Assigned Desktop if set to open at login.

When an app is opened and my spaces as I want them, I select a Desktop and I try to single click on an icon of an App in the dock (maintaining the click) then click on option key and go to the option section in the menu that appears (As recommended by some).

My choices are:

Keep in Dock

• Open at Login

• Show in Finder

• _________________. AND

All Desktops

• This Desktops

• None

As I am totally in the dark, I have tried several combos.

Weird things happened.

You have to move the App into the Desktop you want, then use the Options in the Dock icon to assign it to “This Desktop.”

When you move an app from the desktop to another Desktop, this one is moved at the end of the mission control list on top of the screen, does anyone knows why and how to prevent it?

There is a setting to automatically arrange by last used, but I’m not if that is what you are seeing. Also, if you put an App into Full Screen, that app becomes a dynamically created Desktop that will go away when you quit the app. I believe it will go to the end. You should be able to drag an app window into any Desktop.

Last question.

For example, I use Arc Browser. In fact, multiple windows on different desktops.

You cannot assign document windows to a Desktop, only applications. You can put document windows on any desktop, but they will not be “assigned” to that Desktop.

First, to have them on multiple Desktop it is tricky, as far as I understood something.

You need to select a desktop that has the app on it.

You can't do anything if it is in full-screen mode.

No, you can’t. Full Screen is likely the most useless feature. Stage Manager might have stripped that title from Full Screen, but since I don’t use either, I could rate them against each other.

Then you have to create a new window (not a new tab). Still don't go full-screen.

Move this new instance to the desired desktop using Mission control or move it to the right or left if it doesn't work (It is one or the other, no choice here, don't know why).

Now you can go full screen. Try to find the proper setup with the option menu from the Dock.

There is no “setting up” of a Full Screen app. When you enter Full Screen the Desktop is created for that one app, nothing else.

But depending on these settings, if you alter one instance of the Arc App

There is only ever one “instance” of an app. An app can have many documents open in different windows, but there is only one app instance.

This feature could be awesome if I knew how to use it, if it is possible in its current state, obviously.

I doubt it will ever work the way you want.

See if there is anything here

View open windows and spaces in Mission Control on Mac - Apple Support

if you have issue with the new features try turning those off to get back to terra firma and compare your results

You have them set to automatically rearrange based on most recent use. That’s going to shuffle your Desktops around as you switch to them. They will end up in the order last used.