Is there a way to activate the "spaces" function in Mountain Lion? I really enjoyed that in Snow Leopard.
You are supposed to use the Mission Control pane in System Preferences. I have been unable to get it to hold assignments of applications to Spaces.
To add desktops (spaces):
1. activiate Mission Control by pressing the F3 key.
2. move your cursor to the upper right hand corner of the screen
3. you will see a "+" sign
4. click on the + and a new space will be added
To make assignments permanent:
1. while in Mission Control, click and drag the apps to whichever space you want them in.
2. right click on the app icon down in the dock
3. select the "Options"
4. click on "This Desktop"
Jerryb wrote:
To make assignments permanent:
1. while in Mission Control, click and drag the apps to whichever space you want them in.
2. right click on the app icon down in the dock
Do you mean do step 2 while in Mission Control? That simply takes me out of Mission Control.
3. select the "Options"
4. click on "This Desktop"
"This Desktop" Option is not seen for many applications, including Safari. Here are the Options I see:
Keep in Dock
Open at Login
Show in Finder
After you have the app in the desired space, click on the app to make it the active window. Now do the right click and select the options.
Jerryb wrote:
After you have the app in the desired space, click on the app to make it the active window. Now do the right click and select the options.
Sorry, only those Options that I mentioned are available. No Assign To options are seen for many applications.
BTW, I have only a one-button mouse; am using control-mouse button for right click. That makes no difference in options seen.
There are some apps that you cannot change with the options. Namely Launchpad, Mission Control, Dashboard.
Are these the ones you are talking about?
Jerryb wrote:
There are some apps that you cannot change with the options. Namely Launchpad, Mission Control, Dashboard.
Are these the ones you are talking about?
No. Safari is one that I have mentioned before. Being an Apple app you would think it would conform. In fact, the only app that has the options you mention, that I remember seeing, is Mail. No, App Store is one; Contacts is one. Reminders is one. Notes is one. All these work, but most of my applications do not. How do I assign permanent Desktops to those that do not show these options?
Safari has the option to assign a desktop. Since your aren't see it for other apps as well, the only thing I can think of is that you may possibly have a bad install.
Did you do a clean install or just lay MT down over Lion? I didn't have the dock option program but did have a lot of problems with Safari scrrens when I just laid MT down over Lion. I subsequently went back and did a clean install of MT and all my problems were solved.
Jerryb wrote:
Did you do a clean install or just lay MT down over Lion?
Not a clean install; lay down over Snow Leopard.
I think a clean install is the way to go.
Jerryb wrote:
I think a clean install is the way to go.
Ouch.
Does a full backup from Time Machine restore all applications and settings correctly, after the clean install? Or will it just include possibly messed-up library files and such -- the ones that are causing the problems I see?
When you install MT Lion from a bootable drive, part of the install is the option to copy applications, settings and files from a backup source. I don't use Time Machine but I think that is one of the options.
Thanks. That is helpful.
You're welcome. I hope it works out for you. I am going to do clean installs everytime a new OS comes out as a matter of course. So many things are changing these days that I think it is getting harder and harder for the developers to keep track of the obstacles to a good install.
I found a solution, possibly the solution, to the problem, without doing a clean install.
It all works if, and seemingly only if, you check the box at Restart which
says:
Reopen windows when logging back in
Applications seem to stick with the Desktops you assigned them to, and the options you mentioned appear, at least for Safari which I have checked. Strange.
How do I use spaces in Mountain Lion?
