Mission Control & Spaces

Before Mavericks I was able to quickly switch to a space by using CTRL plus a number key. How do I bring back this feature after Mavericks?

That should still work. Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts and make sure you're set up for this...

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Mission Control / Spaces keeps opening in a new desktop - can't edit this

Anyone else find that Mission Control / Spaces will keep moving over to Desktop #2 for certain apps - even when they are assigned to main desktop?
Annoying!

Just to update.
I re-booted from the old starup volume, which is still intact. ( for now).
I was able to create a new library from there and the mail was alos able to attach files.
Started up from the new volume anf Aperture was able to be poinrted to the new Library.
I am thinking I may need to reinstall both the Mtn Lion and Aperture to resolve this. Unless someone has a suggestion.........
I might alos add that I can't sign in to this forum on the new OSX.
I looked at the password and username stored in the old passwords list and it is not using the @gmail.com for my user name.
I tried leaving it off the sign in on the new OSX but it won't take it. If I use the @gmail I get the screen to sign in a second time for security followed by a screen to create a username, which can't be done becuse that email already has a username.
I may have to create a new Apple ID also, f I want to use this forum.
Apple tech support said to file a report. Which I did.
Message was edited by: Michigan One Fly

How can i use my pictures for Mission Control Spaces in Lion?

How do I get a chosen selection of my own photos to be available for use as desktop pictures, with a different one for each Space in Mission Control in Lion?
I have a new Macbook Air, Thunderbolt display and Lion.

As long as your Office for Mac is 2011, you will have no problems using the programs. If it is the Office for Mac 2008 version, there have been some mixed reviews. 2004 will not work at all.
I have the 2011 version and have not had any problems since upgrading to Lion.

Frustrating lack of support for Mission Control / Spaces on Mac OS

I'm posting this on the InDesign board, but this question applies equally to all apps in the Creative Suite.
Is there any way to make InDesign/Creative Suite work properly with Spaces (a feature that has been around for years now)? It is incredibly frustrating to not be able to use this excellent organisational aid with any of the Adobe apps. There seems to be a whole mishmash of problems with it, from pallettes disappearing and moving to a different space to the document you are working on, to entire apps not being visible in Mission Control. Not to mention problems when trying to hide/unhide apps.
When I'm working with any other apps on my system, I can take advantage of Mission Control, but have forego these advantages when using the Creative Suite. Isn't it really about time that Adobe put some effort into supporting these OS-level features. Whether you favour Mac OS or Windows, you should be able to take advantages of the system you prefer to work on.
Is there any word on whether CS6 will support these features? (I'm not exactly holding my breath).
Thanks.

When I'm working with any other apps on my system, I can take advantage of Mission Control, but have forego these advantages when using the Creative Suite. Isn't it really about time that Adobe put some effort into supporting these OS-level features. Whether you favour Mac OS or Windows, you should be able to take advantages of the system you prefer to work on.
Is there any word on whether CS6 will support these features? (I'm not exactly holding my breath).
There is no word on anything about InDesign CS6 yet. (Those who know can't say, and I'm not aware of any substantive leaked information.)
I think that Spaces/Mission Control support is probably predicated on the Carbon to Cocoa conversion. So until InDesign is a Cocoa app, this is unlikely to improve. Personally I manage to avoid using Spaces to any significant degree, so I don't really notice these things. Have you tried Photoshop, which is a Cocoa app? Does it behave better?
I don't know to what extent these issues are specific to the app, or all tied up in libraries that are common to all the Adobe apps.

Using mission control/spaces on extended displays

Is there a way to assign spaces and use mission control on an extended display (i.e. LCD TV) on 10.7.1? I have connected an LCD TV as an external display to my MBP. When switching spaces on my MBP (primary) display, the external monitor transitions as well. I have been unsuccessful utilizing multiple spaces strictly on my external display or having a static dispaly when switching spaces. I would like to be able to switch spaces independently on each display or make a static desktop on my extended display. Thanks
Macbook Pro 13" Mid 2009
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4GB DDR3 | NVIDIA GEFORCE 9400M 256 MB

When I'm working with any other apps on my system, I can take advantage of Mission Control, but have forego these advantages when using the Creative Suite. Isn't it really about time that Adobe put some effort into supporting these OS-level features. Whether you favour Mac OS or Windows, you should be able to take advantages of the system you prefer to work on.
Is there any word on whether CS6 will support these features? (I'm not exactly holding my breath).
There is no word on anything about InDesign CS6 yet. (Those who know can't say, and I'm not aware of any substantive leaked information.)
I think that Spaces/Mission Control support is probably predicated on the Carbon to Cocoa conversion. So until InDesign is a Cocoa app, this is unlikely to improve. Personally I manage to avoid using Spaces to any significant degree, so I don't really notice these things. Have you tried Photoshop, which is a Cocoa app? Does it behave better?
I don't know to what extent these issues are specific to the app, or all tied up in libraries that are common to all the Adobe apps.

How to remove google chrome in my mission control space

Thanks for your time. anyone else having this problem? the other day I was doing a keyboard shortcut and i accidentally activated mission control.
a new google chrome window opened full screen on my main monitor and my other two monitors went to the blank mission control background.
i was able to get out of it by hitting f9 and choosing my correct desktop. but now EVERY time i click on the google chrome icon in my dock the same thing
happens, the stupid google chrome full page window comes up. it's showing up at the top of mission control and i can't get an X to appear on it to delete. if i create another desktop i can delete that one, but not the google chrome one. it goes away if i quit chrome, but comes back when i reopen it.
i'm sure this is just a setting, but i can't for the life of me find out what it is. thanks again.

Switch to Chrome. Now do one of the following:
Move the mouse pointer to the upper right corner of the screen. When the menu bar slides down, click on the blue double arrow icon.
Move the pointer to the top of the screen. When the menu bar slides down, click View > Exit Full Screen.
Type Command-Control-F.

Mission Control Space Order is always changing

Hi,
Since ML, the full screen application are always changing of order even if the option "Automatically rearrange spaces based on most recent use" is unchecked. I try to check the option on and off again to no end. Anyone else having this issue?

I haven't been able to find any way to do this, and I agree that this would be a nice feature. For now I'd say that you will have to reorder everything manually. Hope this helps.

Mission Control - Spaces assignment not right

Hi,
I'm on OSX 10.9.4, i have a problem with spaces/displays, assignments are not respected.
For instance i want to have :
Outlook
Finder
Excel / Word / Powerpoint
I usually "find" Excel, Word and Power point on space #2, Finder on #3.
I tried multiple things:
Delete all spaces, recreates them, launch the apps without assignment ...
New installation of OSX
I have this problem on my professional user, not on my Personnal one, so i tried with a new user, same point.
Any idea ? Thanks

Try booting into the Safe Mode using your normal account. Disconnect all peripherals except those needed for the test. Shut down the computer and then power it back up after waiting 10 seconds. Immediately after hearing the startup chime, hold down the shift key and continue to hold it until the gray Apple icon and a progress bar appear and again when you log in. The boot up is significantly slower than normal. This will reset some caches, forces a directory check, and disables all startup and login items, among other things. When you reboot normally, the initial reboot may be slower than normal. If the system operates normally, there may be 3rd party applications which are causing a problem. Try deleting/disabling the third party applications after a restart by using the application un-installer. For each disable/delete, you will need to restart if you don't do them all at once.
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Mission Control won't recall Space settings.

Greetings.
I'm having issues with the OS remembering my Mission Control/Space settings.
I have certain apps assigned to specific desktops. For example, I keep Desktop 1 open for Finder windows, Desktop 2 for Adobe applications, and I have Mail assigned to Desktop 3. However, if my MBP lid is closed (i.e. sleep,) the machine is restarted or I unplug my external monitor, the OS doesn't recall which Space I've assigned applications to.
I've started from scratch a few times, removing all Desktops and recreating/re-assigning applications, but that didn't resolve the issue. I've yet to repair permissions, but I suppose that's next.
Thought I'd throw it out here and see if anyone had thoughts. Thanks!

No, this is what I did
I removed my preferences folder because of these issues
and I restarted, thinking the system was going to recreate a new preferences folder
and I would have find the problem was there and not for example in other folders in my User library.
When I rebooted , after logging in , the system did not ask for my keychain password
as I was used to since a long time and many systems ago..
I tried to see if I could lock and unlock my screensaver and it worked.
At this point I went back to put a different password in my keychain , as usual
and tried again after that, to lock and unlock the screen and I had the problem back again.
So I changed the password again , using the same I have for my login.
I put back all my old preferences but one( the finder prefs does recreate itself instantaneously) and restarted
Everything worked and I tried Spaces just to see if it had been fixed too and it was.
After that I tried to replicate the problem on a friend's new computer , which is brand new and without anything installed yet. The problems were there too.
No more investigations for me
I hope it will fix your problems too

MISSION CONTROL, LAUNCHPAD, and FULL SCREEN APPS (one month later)

I'm pretty good embracing a new thing when it comes along. I downloaded LION the day it come out, which was over a month ago at this point. On that day, I immediately found MISSION CONTROL and LAUNCHPAD both uninituitve and pointless. Unhandy iCandy. And of FULL SCREEN APPS? Not necessary on an iMac anyway.
So I quickly sought out quick solutions to 'fix' these new features. Launchpad and full screen apps have the advantage that they can be simply ignored. This is a good thing. Mission Control, on the other hand, got in the way of a beloved feature for me: what was once SPACES and EXPOSE. That is, I couldn't simply ignore MC because I still needed the previous helpful features in Snow Leopard.
My solution was kind of surprising and eye-opening. It's complicated to explain but I thought I'd share. This conclusion is likely best suited for someone not using a small screened Mac. It turns out that most users (with big enough screens) don't really need Mission Control, Launchpad, Spaces, or Full Screen apps.
At all.
Let's go through that conclusion, one by one:
FULL SCREEN APPS
If you have a relatively big screen (20 iMac for instance), why do you need Safari full screen? Unless you intend to sit across the room from the computer, no reason. And there's lots of bright empty space when you do this. Do you need the Mail app full screen? If you need reading glasses, maybe, but otherwise, nope. I find it's easier just to stretch out an app pretty big and leave it at that.
Full screen apps DO offer a nice feature which is making your desktop, menubar, and dock go BYE BYE. I can see where sometimes this is a useful feature, but typically -- NOPE. Typically I want access to my dock (to switch between open apps without the added step of cancelling full screen first), and typically I want access to my menubar so that I can glance up and see what time it is or find an app menu quickly.
The only feature I find worthy of praise with full screen apps is that they hide the clutter on your desktop. But there's an app in the Mac App Store which makes your desktop icons vanish with the touch of a button (CAMOUFLAGE). I mean, what's the point of a wallpaper if you bury it with desktop clutter or eliminate it with full screen apps? If it's a busy and distracting wallpaper, umm... you picked bad wallpaper.
LAUNCH PAD
LAUNCH PAD offers an iOS experience inside OS X. At first I thought it was completely silly. After a month now, I kinda get why it's there. Kinda.
You see, before LP, to duplicate it's functionality, you'd have to organize folders yourself. Put folders of various apps together. Place them somewhere in the finder heirarchy. Then drag those folders into the part of the dock with the trashcan. Then you could click them open and have access to similarly themed folders of apps. The problem here, of course, is that unless you're a power user, you'll never do this.
So Apple thought, AH-HA, we'll just drag into OS X a paradigm that users already get from iOS. Clumping apps together any way you like them. The misfire, if you ask me, is not allowing users to drag the new iOS folders straight into the dock when finished. That is to say: copies of said organized folders. It's as if Apple's software people have complete contempt for the dock -- and are desperate to have users abandon it.
My problem is that I like having folders in my dock of stuff I need. It just works, as Steve says. Going to the same EXACT place every time I need anything is more intuitive and graceful than ADDING an app called Launchpad that launches you into a different finder altogether. Makes zero sense and THIS is why I say, like FULL SCREEN APPS, LP can basically be abandoned.
By the way: need proof that Apple has complete contempt for the Dock?
MISSION CONTROL/SPACES
A month has passed since MC was introduced and SPACES was eliminated. I dare anyone to tell me why either is needed at all. Before you get iMiffed, humor me for a moment and hear me out.
The notion of SPACES was that it's a neat way to keep like minded open apps together. I totally bought into this, back in the day. So much so that I was iMiffed when it was gone in Lion. But let's look at this closer.
The REASON why we needed SPACES was that we could have WAY too many windows open at once on a Mac. Right? A big mess of windows covering each other up. Suppose you're surfing in Safari but need iTunes? But iTunes is hidden. So what did you do? You went to Spaces as step one, moused over to your iTunes space as move two, and then clicked it as move three. Seems like a great solution until the day you discover that you could simply click on iTunes in the dock as move one and arrive at iTunes. As one step. Period. Really simple, right?
Why have Spaces and apps dance around when you can just click the app you want and be done with it? That's the critical observation to make in order to follow my entire line of reasoning. Sure, it may look really cool and make Windows machines look like junk, but at the end of the day, why add two steps to something you might do 100 times a day -- switching between apps.
So why OH why did Apple add Spaces? Simple: because too many apps were visible at once in one 'desktop' window. So if you can build many new desktops, there might only be one or two in each. Great solution. Right?
Wrong, as it turns out. Because we still have the two extra steps. It's a weak solution. And it's in complete contempt of the Dock, which as it turns out, offers the strongest solution.
The strong solution would be that only one app is visible in your Mac's window at all times. Say you're in Safari. Despite having 12 other apps open, you only see Safari. Your dock tells you that you have other apps open, but nothing else sits in your window BUT the app you're using. So you want to go to iTunes? So click on it in the dock and Safari vanishes and iTunes emerges by itself. No other windows. What could be simpler? (This app is freeware known as ISOLATOR.)
If you download and try ISOLATOR, you'll say, umm, okay, but wait: sometimes I do want more than one window in view. Okay, fine, turn it off then. From the handy menu bar menu. I find that 98% of the time I need ISOLATOR on. Mileage may vary.
So let's recap. One third party software removes distracting desktop clutter, the other removes distracting app windows. Both can be toggled on and off from the menu bar. One is free, one costs $2. These two solutions remove the only real feature of FULL SCREEN APPS and make SPACES and it's newfangled cousin MISSION CONTROL pointless.
Need that last one explained? Well, what's Mission Control but a variant of spaces? To invoke MC and switch to the needed window are those same two annoying steps Spaces added into the mix. Nothing was fixed. Plus, like spaces, you must invest time and energy organizing such spaces.
Why bother? And so I ask again: can somebody who's read and tried the above carefully explain to me why Mission Control, Launchpad, and Full Screen Apps are really needed at all? (Outside of small screened Macs.) Doesn't the dock and these two sharewares together solve most problems?
Am I missing something?

I agree with everything you said about full screen apps, mission control and launchpad. For apps that made sense to run full screen, they already could under SL. Launchpad is totally unnecessary and Mission Control is a mere shadow of Expose and Spaces.
However, I feel you have not given due credit to Spaces. The point of Spaces is to let one organise logical desktops for different tasks, not just a way to reduce the number of windows on display. For example, I have a Space for software development where I run Xcode and the iPhone simulator, a Firefox window showing perhaps documentation or some other websites pertaining to software development, a Finder window that is opened in the folder with my design docs. I have another Space where I have the remote login sessions, yet another Space with another Firefox window where I do general surfing and emailing. I can switch between these spaces using a keyboard shortcut, which is much quicker than having to lift my hand off the keyboard, move it over to the mouse, move the mouse pointer over the Dock, find the app and click on it, only to find that it has switched to the wrong window of the app.
Without Spaces, organisation of my desktop is disrupted each time I want to switch task, whereas Spaces allows me to drop everything I am doing, go and do something completely different for a while and go back to my exact previous environment. I have a 27" iMac so am not short of screen space but I use Spaces extensively. BTW, switching Spaces using a keyboard shortcut is a lot faster on SL than the equivalent on Lion, thanks to the gratuitous screen animation of the latter.

"Mission Control" does not show space row and I cannot add a new space (27 inch screen)

Firstly, "Mission Control" does not show upper row with spaces. I have configured Dashboard as space, but it is not showed either.
Second, I cannot add a new space because the upper right corner wont show an empty space.
In system I have configured (Mission Control) the upper right corner as "mission control".
I do run a 27-inch screen

I'm having the exact same problem. I have a Macbook Pro that I connect to a 27inch iMac through the mini display port. Whenever I attempt to launch Mission control to move a program to a different space, the "Spaces" dont appear at the top of the screen. Is anyone have an answer for this?
Also, does anyone know of a 3rd party program to bring "Spaces" back? That was my #1 favorite thing of Snow Leopard, and I need to get that functionality back.
Thanks

How can one use Mission Control with two monitors? Please bring Spaces back

How can one use Mission Control with two monitors. With Spaces I could treat each space as a single desktop.
SyBB

I use two monitors at work and have no issue. I have my mail set to use Desktop 1 and iTunes set to the second monitor of Desktop 1. I have browsers set to Desktop 2 and Fusion and RDC set to Desktop 3.
Two things that may help you. In System Preferences > Mission Control, disable the setting "Automatically rearrange spaces...". This screwed with assigning applications to certain spaces. And the other thing is don't use full screen on apps that support it. This just makes your second monitor superfluous.

Left over spaces preferences in Mission Control

I had certain programs set up to go to particular spaces before I upgraded to Lion. Now, the programs go to the desktop number that corresponds to the space it used to go to. The functionality of having things assigned isn't needed (or useful either) in the new mission control setup, so I would like to cancel the assignments, but I can't change the preferences any more.
I am sure that there is a terminal command that would fix this, but I wouldn't even know where to begin to look for it; other than here of course.

Right click the programs icon in the dock. Select Options > Assign to: None
Regards,
Captfred

Mission Control vs Spaces. Was this an upgrade?

In spaces, I could see which space that I was in by looking at menu bar. Apparently this does not happen with Mission Control. I work most of the time with two monitors and with spaces I could move any window to the space on either monitor. With Mission control, I cannot move a window to the other monitor. This is improtant because I move Finder windows to where I have Mail so I can drag and drop onto an E-mail. I use this for e-mails with multiple attachments.
I have yet to see an advantage of Mission Control over spaces.

Wasn't a upgrade, it was a arbitrary decision to mess with the UI and people's heads.
I agree it should have both MC and Spaces, let the best UI interface win.

Mission Control in Yosemite Creates Tons of Spaces/Desktops

Every now and then, I'll open mission control, and I'll see dozens of spaces/desktops open. I did not open them myself, so Yosemite must be creating them automatically somehow. Here's a screenshot I just took while closing them:
I am hovering over desktop number 25, so there are around 40-50 desktops shown (and I had already deleted many of them before taking this screenshot).
Has anybody run into this before and know how to prevent it? Seems like a bug. Here are some notes:
OS X Yosemite (clean install on a new partition... I sill have Mavericks on an old partition).
Seems to only happen on my main screen (I have a second, external monitor).
Here is some system/display information:

Yeah, it does seem pretty rare. None of my coworkers have mentioned it, and most of them recently upgraded to Yosemite. Though, at least one other person has seen this issue too. Spaces and expose on Yosemite:
Though, there are some differences that could explain why none of my coworkers have seen this before. They are using iMacs (I have a MacBook Pro), they have Thunderbolt displays (I have a retina display), and they all upgraded from Mavericks (I did a clean install).
By the way, the user in the screenshot above mentioned that spaces are created each time they boot up. I'll open Mission Control next time I restart to see if that's when it happens for me (I've been on my computer for a couple hours now and still no extra spaces).
Also, I have VMware installed and use it frequently. It does some funky things with windows/screens and I run it in full screen all the time, so maybe that could be related.

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