Timeline for How to force preview to open window in current desktop
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| Jul 19 at 17:48 | answer | added | Jake Horban | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 4, 2020 at 12:23 | comment | added | jan | I think your title should say "... in current desktop when on second monitor". Because on the primary monitor it does open in the current desktop. But I agree, it's super frustrating, I have had the exact same issue and it seems this is a bug in Previews behavior. It's truly annoying. I open PDFs in Skim by default unless I need to modify the PDF (Skim uses the underlying PDF viewer of the OS, so the experience is similar to Preview and it has much better annotating features – but it can't do stuff like add or delete pages etc.) | |
| Jun 4, 2019 at 20:20 | comment | added | ClonedOne | @LvcasX1 thanks for helping with this :) I hope someone will know the answer, this bug is destroying my focus | |
| Jun 4, 2019 at 20:16 | comment | added | LvcasX1 | @ClonedOne I was trying to assign it just to the active display but if you select "all desktops" or "none" options it will just display on primary display. If you select assign it to an specific desktop it will work. (never seen it before so I'm just learning how it works) | |
| Jun 4, 2019 at 20:09 | comment | added | ClonedOne | @LvcasX1 thanks for the tip! now I can see the option. However that's not really answering the question, I would like preview to just open where I am working, not in a fixed place. If for instance I was working on the laptop monitor I would want it to open there | |
| Jun 4, 2019 at 20:07 | comment | added | LvcasX1 | Ok, I've tried with two options: setting your external monitor screen as primary and the second was with this "assign to" option, this options will appear if you have more than one desktop in both displays so you will have to create them and then open preview and you will see this option in the "option" item in the list. | |
| Jun 4, 2019 at 20:04 | comment | added | ClonedOne | @LvcasX1 my primary screen is the laptop one (the menu bar is there in the settings) | |
| Jun 4, 2019 at 20:04 | comment | added | ClonedOne | @Tetsujin by 'space' you mean desktop? If yes, I said it in the post, there are 2 desktops, desktop 1 is on the laptop, desktop 2 is on the external screen | |
| Jun 4, 2019 at 19:59 | comment | added | Tetsujin | I would imagine you only get 'assign to' once you have more than one Space defined. [Not something I'm going to test, I have 7 sets of Spaces, very carefully assigned.] If you only actually have one defined Space & you do everything else in fullscreen, then you're not taking advantage of Spaces properly. | |
| Jun 4, 2019 at 19:59 | comment | added | ClonedOne | @Tetsujin I have edited the post to show a screenshot | |
| Jun 4, 2019 at 19:58 | history | edited | ClonedOne | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 4, 2019 at 19:57 | comment | added | LvcasX1 | Have you set your external monitor as primary screen on system preferences? I can't see the "assign to" option either. | |
| Jun 4, 2019 at 19:56 | comment | added | Tetsujin | All apps have an assign to [desktop]; I've never seen one without. | |
| Jun 4, 2019 at 19:53 | comment | added | ClonedOne | @Tetsujin The behavior is the same wheter preview is already open or not. Weird I don't have 'assign to' in the options list in the dock ( I have 'keep in dock', 'open at login', 'show in finder', none checked) | |
| Jun 4, 2019 at 19:51 | comment | added | Tetsujin | 1) Is Preview already running when you do this? 2) Right click Preview's icon in the Dock & tell us what is selected in Options>Assign to... | |
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| Jun 4, 2019 at 19:43 | history | asked | ClonedOne | CC BY-SA 4.0 |