Questions tagged [mission-control]
Mission Control brings together Exposé, Dashboard, Spaces, and full-screen apps to give you one place to see and navigate everything that's currently open on your Mac. In Mission Control, all of your open windows and spaces are visible, grouped by app
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Why do all windows move to main display after a lock screen or sleep?
Trying to figure out why after a sleep or screen lock, when my system is awakened all open windows are moved to the main display. Both displays are Apple Thunderbolt 27" Displays and both are set ...
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Using automator to remove empty spaces / desktops automatically?
I use Yabai for window management, and so I'm frequently opening new windows and sending them to new desktops. But as I close windows, this means that I end up with a large number of desktops with no ...
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How to Force an Application to Open in a Specific Monitor
How can I assign an application to, by default, open in a specific monitor?
I have an additional monitor that is connected via HDMI to my Macbook, which allows me to use the two screens as if they ...
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How can I replace the button in Mission Control that adds a new virtual desktop (+) when the dock is positioned on the right side?
I use MacBook Pro M3 with macOS Sonoma 14.4.
The button in Mission Control that adds a new virtual desktop (+) generally located аt right side, when the dock orientation down or left. That is more ...
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macOS immediately switching away when changing space
I use Mission Control Spaces to separate the different applications and projects I'm working on. So, e.g. desktop 1 is email; desktops 8 and 9 are for different customers, etc. And I use ctrl-number ...
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Open a new workspace in OSX without using the mouse
I am used to Linux environments but I have to use a Mac for work. Now I am wondering why it seems to be impossible to open new workspaces in OSX without using the mouse? I know how to switch between ...
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How do I set CMD+TAB to show Mission Control
I dislike the cmd + tab app switcher, since I can't switch between apps for my needs.
I prefer Mission Control for this.
Is it possible to re-map cmd + tab to show Mission Control on macOS?
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In Sonoma, how can I run applications in /System/Applications from the command line?
I have a shell script I sometimes use to trigger Mission Control, which is simply the following:
#!/bin/sh
/System/Applications/Mission\ Control.app/Contents/MacOS/Mission\ Control
In macOS 13, this ...
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How can I change the font color of Mission Control?
macOS Ventura 13.6, M1 macbook air.
For example, my VSCode has many workspaces (windows), and when I use Mission Control I need the titles below the windows to recognize them; but the white font color ...
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Why does my Mac's dock keep automatically hiding when I enter Mission Control?
Every time I enter mission control, my dock hides. I'm not pressing anything on my keyboard, so that's not it. I also can't scale my windows past the hidden dock (This might be it just snapping to ...
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Bi-directional window cycling on Mac with `⌘ + ~` and without `shift`?
Is it possible on Mac when I cycle between same app's windows with command + tilde (⌘ + ~), stop/release, and then cycle again -- make it go in opposite direction on the second cycle?
Such that I ...
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Mission Control on Mac with multiple Screens
I have an issue how Mission Control selects pro-actively the focused app/window on a monitor B when chosing the app in Monitor A.
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For simplicity let's say I have two monitors, A and B.
Both ...
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Can't navigate to app window on different desktop from App Exposé
From macOS App Exposé, I should be able to click on an app window, then automatically switch to the desktop with that app window. But on my macOS Sonoma 14.1.1 machine, when I can launch App Exposé ...
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App assigned to one desktop stays behind apps assigned to all desktops
In macOS 14.0 "Sonoma" [EDIT: now also on 14.1], the following buggy behavior keeps returning at random times.
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I have assigned certain apps to a single Desktop (that is, to one ...
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Shortcut to escape from "Space" to main screen
Using terminology from Work in multiple spaces on Mac, spaces are additional desktops.
Let's say I have five spaces open and I am on the right-most one. Is there a shortcut I can use to go to the left-...
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