How To Assign App To A Desktop On Mac
Tired of your various Mac apps winding up in the wrong virtual desktop? I know the feeling.
Well, good news. You can, in fact, assign an app to a specific desktop in Mission Control—perfect for keeping your programs in their proper “spaces,” particularly when you’re booting up your Mac.
A very low technology but quite direct solution is to assign keystrokes to each desktop (Preferences - keyboard - shortcuts - Mission Control: allows you to assign ^1 to Desktop 1 and so on). Then write your desired Desktop Names on a small stickie note (a physical one!) and stick it near the number keys. Mail is likely the default email app on your Mac, but just in case you have others downloaded, you can set the default reader. Here's how: Launch Mail from your dock or the Finder. Click Mail in the menu bar at the top of the screen. Click Preferences. Click the dropdown next to Default Mail Reader. Click the app you'd like to set as the default. Let's say that in mode #1, you'd like to assign a given app to specific desktop. The way you'd normally do that is to right-click the app's icon in the dock. However, and here's the gotcha, if you. However, it's easy to assign apps to each monitor. Here's how: First, you need to create an additional space in Mission Control. You can add it to either monitor. Having done that, then when you right-click on an app in the Dock, you will see the option to assign the app to All Desktops, Desktop on Display 1, Desktop on Display 2. I am trying to create an Application on Mac OS X Lion which requires application to be assigned to All Desktops (Spaces). This can be manually done by Right clicking on application's dock icon and Selecting Options Assign To All Desktops. You can select any of the Apple-supplied desktops, any of the images you have in your Photos library, or any image saved on your Mac. To change the Desktop image, launch System Preferences by clicking its icon in the Dock or selecting System Preferences from the Apple Menu. Select the Desktop & Screen Saver preference pane.
Before we begin, something to keep in mind: this trick applies only to apps running in standard “windowed” mode. Programs running in “full screen” (a handy new feature in Mac OS X “Lion”) automatically get assigned to their own desktops.
Just select “This Desktop” to pin an app to a specific Mission Control desktop.
So, ready to start “pinning” your apps to specific desktops? Here we go…
- First, navigate to the desktop where you’d like a particular program to call home. If, for example, you want iPhone to sit in Desktop 2, launch Mission Control, then click on Desktop 2 from the overhead Mission Control view (or create a second desktop if there isn’t one already).
- Launch the app you want to assign to the desktop—again, let’s use iPhoto as our example.
- Go down to the Mac desktop dock at the bottom of the screen, find the icon for iPhoto, and right-click it.
- In the menu that appears, select Options, then select “This Desktop” under the “Assign to” heading.
Now, let’s test. Go ahead and close the app you just assigned to a desktop, navigate to Desktop 1 in Mission Control, then launch the app again—and when you do, it should launch in the desktop you assigned it to.
Also, if the app you’ve pinned to a desktop opens automatically when you start up your Mac, the app will now launch in its assigned window.
OK, but what if you want to “unpin” an app from a desktop? Just right-click its icon in the dock, select Options, then select “None” under “Assign to.”
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