Feel like this is a feature that could use a good workover by Apple or a third-party developer. The secret to make Spaces smooth and easy is to turn on the Trackpad gestures for 3 fingers to swipe left and right. Finally, select Mission Control from the pull down menu for the top right and bottom right screen corners and click on OK.
I keep all my apps maximized, most of the time, but not in full-screen mode. Maybe that I like to be able to glance up and see the menu bar. Yup, love Moom! Love it even more since I set it up to do a kind of dumbed-down version of tiling. I have a few settings that move apps to take up an eighth of a screen, for the occasional instance where I need to have three apps open simultaneously.
A few months ago I switched from heavy use of spaces to using keyboard shortcuts to switch between applications. I often feel cramped on my inch MacBook Pro, but I've found a solution that doesn't involve upgrading to the inch model or anchoring myself to a large desktop display.
With OS X Apple calls them Spaces , and they let you create multiple desktops. It's like having multiple monitors -- without the monitors. Since setting up Spaces, my workflow is easier to organize. It lets me separate my apps instead of cramming them into one desktop where they are layered on top or one another and constantly minimized and then called back into action.
To switch between spaces on a Mac with a trackpad, swipe left or right on the pad with a four-fingered gesture. This will cycle you through the open spaces in your chosen direction. Use keyboard shortcuts. This shortcut also can be used to go to each space individually. To do so, press CTRL and the number of your desired space, e. Method 3. Check if the application you are running supports full screen mode. If it does, you will see a full-screen icon that looks like two diagonal arrows in the top-right of the program window.
Click the icon to switch to full screen mode. Use the methods above to switch between your spaces, one of which will now contain only your full screen application. Leave full screen mode when finished. To switch a full screen program back to normal, move your mouse to the top right corner of the screen.
Click the blue icon that appears in the top right of the full screen program window. Your program will return to its original space. Method 4.
Drag the application you wish to move. If you wish to move an open program to a different space, just drag it right to the edge of the screen. After a two second pause the program will move into the next space along.
Click the windows tab in the top bar, and select "open new window. Yes No. Not Helpful 2 Helpful 1. It would be great to be able to tap a key and send Microsoft Word off to Desktop 3 while we continue in Desktop 1 but Apple doesn't grant that facility to apps.
Your Mac treats these two or more Spaces as being in a line like a strip of film. You move left and right along the strip through however many Spaces you have and they always stay in exactly the same position.
Desktop 2 is always to the right of Desktop 1. Or rather, it looks as if it is. If you bring up the menubar Spaces feature and click on a desktop, you can drag one to change its position. Only, while you do drag that Space to somewhere else, the moment you drop it into position, your Mac renames them all so that the numbering remains the same.
It's very confusing but it's so that Control plus 4 always opens the fourth Space along. You can delete any Space except the current one by calling up this Spaces menubar and hovering your mouse over the thumbnails.
Just as with iOS, when you do that, you get a close box that you can click to remove the Space. You remove the Space, you don't remove any app that was on it or any of the document windows.
If you have a dozen windows open in Desktop 2 and you close it then every one of those documents will now be open on Desktop 1.
In theory, your Mac helps you use these different desktops with features that are designed to make it easy to move apps between them. In practice, it needs you to both know the ways you can do this and to be disciplined about when you use them. With Desktop 1 in front of you, open a Finder window.
Now drag it all the way to the right of your screen. When you've dragged far enough, the Mac will take that window over on into Desktop 2.
It will flip to Desktop 2 so that you can carry on dragging it to where you want. You can get it back the same way. Drag the Finder window to the left edge of your screen and it will pass on through to Desktop 1. It doesn't have to be a Finder window, either. If you've got two Word documents open, grab one by the title bar and drag it to the right of your screen: it will go to Desktop 2.
Or call up Expose and the Screens menu bar. Every window of every app on the current desktop will turn into a large thumbnail. Click and drag any one of them up to a different Space and then let go. The window will move to that Space. You don't move with it, though. You stay in the current desktop and you stay with Expose open. So you immediately can pick another app and move that to another Space.
You can rapidly assign document windows to different spaces. Right-click on any app in your Dock and you'll get an Options menu.
In that you'll see an Assign To feature. This lets you assign a particular app to a particular space. You have to have created that space already or it won't appear in the menu but once you do, it's in every Options , Assign To menu.
Now whenever you launch that particular app, it will switch to Desktop 2 — or whichever you've chosen — and then open. So if you choose, you can have all your podcasting apps always open in Desktop 2 without ever again having to go through dragging them around. Not only are the names of these different Spaces completely unmemorable — try remembering whether you put podcasting apps in Desktop 2 or 3.
And then if you do remember, also recall whether you've since dragged those desktops around as your Mac renamed them. This is where we find a real need for macOS to update Spaces: we long for the ability to change the name from Desktop 1 to, say, Finance Apps.
Right now you cannot set a name directly nor change it when it's in use. However, you can manipulate what your Mac calls a Space when you create it. Open Mail, for example, and then make it full screen by clicking in the green traffic light icon.
Now do the four-finger swipe up that normally reveals Expose and the Spaces menu bar. This time it does reveal those but it also immediately moves Mail up into its own new Space — which it calls Mail. Go back to Desktop 1 and open another app. If you again do the four-finger swipe up into Expose, you can now drag that app up either into its own space or on top of an existing one. If you drag it on top of the Space labelled Mail, you'll see the Mail app move within its thumbnail. It'll move to the left or right depending on where you're dragging this other app.
You can let go and have the Space marked Mail now contain your email client in Split View sharing the screen with the new app. What's more, the Space will rename again to show what two apps are in there.
You can't do it with three: this is one full-screen app or two Split View ones only. So far you can see what the benefit of all this and whether it would be of use to you. What you don't see until you try it earnest is that you can trip up into either confusing or actually annoying areas.
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