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Assign to This Desktop / All Desktops broken for some apps

Hi,


I did a fresh install of Mountain Lion on a Late 2010 Macbook Air this evening.

I use Mission Control and multiple desktops extensively. I assign various apps to certain desktops, for example, web browsers are always on the 4th desktop, accessible with ^4.


Typically you set this up such that you put the app where you want it, two-finger click on its icon in the dock, Options --> Assign to This Desktop.


I'm finding however that in Mountain Lion this is working for some apps but not for others. Some apps simply do not have the option to do this under Options when you two-finger click its icon in the dock. The "Assign to" section of the menu doesn't appear. All you get is Keep in dock, open at login, show in finder in this case.


Apps I can confirm do not work are Omnifocus, Reeder, and Chrome.


Has anyone else encountered this?

MacBook Air (13-inch Late 2010), OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 25, 2012 9:10 PM

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Aug 5, 2012 11:09 AM in response to danuary

I was having the same issue and tried RMNL's suggestion, but the problem returns after a short while.


Typically, I launch apps with Spotlight, and I don't always get the "assign to desktop" menu. What seems to work for me is launching apps using Launchpad, in which case, I always seem to have the "assign to desktop" options. YMMV

Assign to This Desktop / All Desktops broken for some apps

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