Timeline for Solution to keep complete projects completely separate with same user and multiple displays on macOS?
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| Aug 30, 2020 at 19:23 | answer | added | Allan | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 29, 2020 at 21:20 | answer | added | Pavel | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 27, 2020 at 17:30 | comment | added | Tetsujin | Oh, yes - avoid fullscreen like the plague too. If you like Spaces [in groups], you'll hate it if you try adding fullscreen apps, as they take a new Space … but without a number you can jump to & using only one Screen, leaving the others blank. Terrible implementation, designed for laptops, no thought whatsoever for large multiple display setups. | |
| Aug 27, 2020 at 17:26 | comment | added | stevec | @Tetsujin interesting comment here which I will also try | |
| Aug 27, 2020 at 17:24 | comment | added | stevec | @Tetsujin thanks very much. I thought this was likely a niche problem only I had, but looks like it's not that easy after all. Really appreciate your knowledge/ideas! Hopefully apple give it a little attention some time soon. Do you know if there any external apps that help with this? (I know of linux distributions that are made for this type of management, but I am not willing to go off macOS right now as too many other things would have to change and it wouldn't be worth it, not in the short run anyway). I will try some configurations in the linked questions you provided too. | |
| Aug 27, 2020 at 17:04 | comment | added | Tetsujin | It's quite a paradigm shift, going from one to the other [I avoid it like tha plague as it really messes things up & makes you reset them all from scratch]. I'd quit everything, then reboot & start from scratch as much as possible. Once you've gone through the tedious process of setting Spaces for each app then dragging windows to which screen you want them… they should then stay. you'll find the occasional app that can't remember to use second & third screens [that's got worse since about High Sierra & no-one at Apple seems to care about fixing it] | |
| Aug 27, 2020 at 17:01 | comment | added | stevec | @Tetsujin I think I need a reboot as sublime text went haywire. There are 8 black windows open that cannot be closed by cmd + w, activity monitor, or even force quit. I will reboot but continue to use this configuration to understand it. Thanks for the help and I'll report back | |
| Aug 27, 2020 at 16:58 | comment | added | stevec | @Tetsujin just unchecked 'Displays have separate Spaces' and logged out/in. There's some weirdness going on (sublime text suddenly has twice the number of windows open, with half of them completely black screens with no interface or menu), so I guess I'll test this configuration to a little time to understand it and how it works. Will report back | |
| Aug 27, 2020 at 16:50 | comment | added | Tetsujin | See also - apple.stackexchange.com/questions/179376/… and superuser.com/questions/1187532/… The issue will remain that one app, no matter how many instances you force, will always want to belong to one Space, not many. | |
| Aug 27, 2020 at 16:49 | comment | added | stevec | @Tetsujin I think your suggestion may solve my problem as I do not want the same instance (if that's even the right word) mapped to multiple spaces, but in fact the oppose I strictly want each and every instance of an app to belong to (strictly) one workspace. I will try your suggestion and report back | |
| Aug 27, 2020 at 16:46 | comment | added | Tetsujin | You can handle Spaces in groups rather than per screen by unchecking 'Displays have separate Spaces' in Mission Control Prefs… but you're still going to hit a brick wall trying to get any single app mapped to more than one Space. Use two browsers & two different Terminal-type apps & you could do it fairly easily. | |
| Aug 27, 2020 at 16:38 | history | asked | stevec | CC BY-SA 4.0 |