Ah. It sounds like you're having problems with multiple monitors. I use multiple desktops on the laptop monitor only, so I have no experience with the deficiencies you appear to be describing. I also haven't had apps "collapse to a single desktop" to my knowledge. But I leave my laptop on 24/7 (I just sleep the display when I'm not using it) so I can always access it remotely if need be — since I rarely sleep or shutdown the machine, that's perhaps why I haven't seen any collapsing.
> On Aug 1, 2018, at 10:10 AM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 2018-07-29, at 7:17 PM, Macs R We <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >>> >>> On Jul 29, 2018, at 12:10 PM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I have tried to do something like this for years, but I have concluded that >>> Apple's implementation of virtual desktops is just broken. I can never >>> manage to have one app happy to have windows on multiple desktops (Finder, >>> and TextEdit, are the worst behaving for me, Terminal isn't too far behind), >> >> Hm. I often run with Finder windows open on multiple desktops, sometimes >> TextEdit, rarely Terminal, and very often Safari. They seem to work fine >> for me, or perhaps I just have lower functional expectations. The most >> annoying functional lacuna I experience is that using command-tilde to cycle >> through an app's active windows cycles only through the windows on that >> desktop (making me wonder why I can't seem to find the window I remember >> having left open, until I realize it's because it's not on the current >> desktop). >> >>> restoring apps doesn't restore their windows to the desktop (Well, Finder >>> will *usually*, not always, behave here), >> >> I don't know if you're talking about resurrecting them from a Dock >> pigeonhole, or automatically re-opening them after a reboot, so I can't >> parse this complaint. > > After a reboot. Or, if the system thinks that it is safe to kill and relaunch > it later. > > For example, this morning, although this is not a virtual desktop issue, > Finder, Mail, and Terminal re-opened all of their windows on the internal > monitor, nothing on the HDMI monitor. Which means that they resized the big > windows down to the internal monitor size. > > I've had things collapse onto a single desktop so often that I have just > stopped trying to separate them. It's not worth trying to spend a significant > amount of time setting up projects that way only to know that it will (not > if, when) break. > > It's worse when you consider that Apple does not back up Saved Application > State to time machine, so in some cases, not only does everything reset to > the current desktop on startup, but things will also go to "All windows are > reopened as default size and random placement", and you can't restore the > previous day's window state. > >> >>> and the general "feel" that I get is that Apple's view of virtual desktops >>> is "This desktop is for this app", not "this desktop is for this workflow". >> >> Maybe my brain is insufficiently object-oriented. I typically don't use the >> same app for different workflows simultaneously (except for looking up >> things in Safari, or taking notes in TextEdit, and these both seem to work >> fine for me). > > Finder, TextEdit, Terminal, and Mail are consistently multi-project programs > for me. And they consistently fail/collapse to a single desktop. And this > morning they collapsed to a single monitor. > > > --- > Entertaining minecraft videos > http://YouTube.com/keybounce <http://youtube.com/keybounce>
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