Bring Open Application to Current Space
Is there a way to bring an application to the current Space?
Situation: I'm actively working in Space A and I need to access information from an application that is in another space, Space X. I can easily enough click on the icon in the doc to switch me to that space and application. However, I would like to option to bring that application to the current window.
Has anybody out there come across a way to do this?
There are several ways to move a window into another space. Here are two:
In the all-spaces view (F8 by default), you can arrange windows into whatever space you want.
Or... go to the window you want to move. Grab the title bar to move it and shift spaces (Control-Arrow, for example) while holding the window. The window will move along with you as you cycle through spaces.
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Hi!
How can I get a shortcut to cycle only between the windows in the current space?
Please help!
/roda"the default shortcut for this is control+F4 (or controlfnF4 depending on the keyboard you are using). You can change it to what you like in system preferences->keybaord->keyboard shortcuts->keyboard and text input."
Thanks alot -- this does exactly what I need!
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Hello.
Strange problem. Every time I open a new an application, using the Finder or the Dock, it opens behind the current window. This happens with all applications no matter which window I have in front. It even happens when I open a file; it opens in the back.
What could be going on now? =[Hi
Does it happen if you open apps direct from the /Applications/ folder
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Hi
I'm wondering if it's possible when you press alt+tab and see the "application switcher", to show only the applications that are located in your current Space? f.x. if I have 5 applications open, but 2 of them are in the Spaces window number 1, then the application switcher will only give me a list of those two applications.
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regards
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you can ask Apple to implement this feature here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
P.S. you can use exposé to show all active windows in all applications in the current space. not quite the same thing what you are asking but reasonably close.
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Hello everyone,
I'm trying to fix this apple script to only work on the windows in the current Space.
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Does anyone know how to test how many windows are only in the current space?
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Thank you.Hello,
Thank you for your reply, Pierre.
Just in case anyone is wondering, I didn't write this script, I found it somewhere online and then promptly forgot where. However, it doesn't work very well if I have other windows in other spaces, so I wanted to see if I could figure it out.
It's still not working correctly, it seems to work the same way as before:
--When in Safari, the coordinates {0,0} refer to the upper corner not including the menubar.
set theTargetIDs to {}
tell application "Safari"
set theIDs to id of every window
set theIDs to reverse of theIDs -- to keep the initial stacking order
repeat with thisID in theIDs
set index of window id thisID to 1 -- try to change the index value
if index of window id thisID is 1 then -- the window is in the current space
copy (thisID as number) to the beginning of theTargetIDs
end if
end repeat
theTargetIDs -- from front to back - the windows that are in the current space
set n to (count of theTargetIDs)
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tell application "Finder"
set screenSize to bounds of window of desktop
set screenWidth to item 3 of screenSize
set screenHeight to item 4 of screenSize
end tell
-- Dividing by zero is bad
if n is equal to 0 then return
set windowWidth to screenWidth / n
if (n > 0) then
activate
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-- Position each window in turn
repeat
tell window x
set bounds to {windowWidth * (x - 1), 0, windowWidth * x, screenHeight}
end tell
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if x is equal to (n + 1) then exit repeat
end repeat
end if
end tell
Am I missing something? I don't think that script is selecting only the windows in the current space- it's still tiling in every space. Can you take a look?
Sorry for my incapability to help myself. :S
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CMD+OPT+esc should bring up the Force Quit Application. Select the Install ML app, and click Force Quit. That should do the trick. Then, save yourself some grief and copy it to a safe place because the ill-designed installer deletes itself during the installation process, necessitating wasting resources DLing it again if you need to reinstall or recover it.
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A workaround to get open documents in different Spaces to the allocated PS space
A small workaround for Spaces CS5 Mac.
If you have CS5 documents spread over different Spaces due to clicking them in the finder and want to get them all back in to the allocated PS Space, here's a workaround.
You do need one doc open in the correct space I'm afraid for it to work. Create a new doc in there if you have to. I tend to leave one small doc open in the right Space all the time now.
Go to the allocated PS space. Select the menu option "Consolidate all to tabs" from the Window>Arrange menu.
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Hard to do that with tab view obviously.
Next select "Float all in windows" and you'll have your docs viewable, side by side in the right space.
If you assign a key command to those options, it becomes a quick tap 1-2 and you're done.
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It's not great for all things but it's better than "It's all Apple's fault"there is certainly no built in way to do it. In fact Dock Spaces is the only program I've ever heard of that allows you to have different docks in different spaces. if it can't do it, it's impossible.
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Adobe Illustrator CC 2014 won't open under my current admin profile.
I recently installed Adobe CC 2014 suite on my Windows 7 OS. All the programs open properly with the exception of Illustrator CC. The error message I get is:
Adobe Illustrator CC 2014 has stopped working. A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the program and notify you if a solution is available.
Since receiving this message I have gone through other forum posts and have tried all (below) with no remedy.
Uninstalled using Windows Uninstall Program followed by Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool and reinstalled. (I’ve done this numerous times. I also removed any prior software versions (CS5) along with preceding software preferences.)
All of my OS drivers have been updated.
Monitor, Processor and GPU Drivers are updated. NOTE: I’m running an Intel Core i7 960 3.2GHz processor and an AMD Radeon HD 6700 Series GPU.
I’m running my workstation as an admin user, however created a shared user group so InDesign would open properly. (This was my other problem I was having up until a few hours ago.)
I have uninstalled and reinstalled both Verdana and Tahoma TTF fonts.
I am not running or have installed any 3rd party plug-ins.
I read a forum post that said you can get around this problem by creating a new admin account. I did and was able to open Illustrator under that profile; however I’m still unable to open it under my existing admin account. How can I get around this? There must be a way to get Illustrator to open in my current account.
Any help in this area would be greatly appreciated. I’m now on day No. 2 trying to get this solved.Hello Mylenium,
Is this what you need to determine what is causing Illustrator CC to crash upon opening the program?
Source
Adobe Illustrator CC 2014
Summary
Stopped working
Date
7/22/2014 1:00 PM
Status
Report sent
Description
Faulting Application Path: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CC 2014\Support Files\Contents\Windows\Illustrator.exe
Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: Illustrator.exe
Application Version: 18.0.0.18
Application Timestamp: 53880380
Fault Module Name: Illustrator.exe
Fault Module Version: 18.0.0.18
Fault Module Timestamp: 53880380
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0000000000f46822
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 6425
Additional Information 2: 64256d48db57d4bc137c25bbc699fc9d
Additional Information 3: 0bee
Additional Information 4: 0beeca970ec06b6ebcf9f095a19efea9
Extra information about the problem
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Checked to see how much free space there is on the startup disk lately?
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Hi Experts,
We are having Portal 7.4 SP6 framework.
Application-A -> Web-dynpro java program pushing data into R/3 using BAPI.
Application-B -> Std. WD-ABAP iView template.
Currently, I am working in web-dynpro java program, where I am pushing some data into R/3 using BAPI in Application-A. And this BAPI data is getting displayed in another z-Tcode and displayed in portal using web-dynpro Abap iView template, which is Application-B
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Hope that should solve your problem.
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