Oct 31
Here’s a really neat trick for those of you who like to have a certain app on all of your spaces.
Go into your spaces prefs, add an app to to the “application assignments” section. Choose “Every Space” next to the app and from now on when you launch a particular application it will follow you to each space you navigate to. Excellent for iChat or Skype!
October 31st, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Only frustrating thing I’ve seen with this… Adium’s contact list doesn’t seem to follow along… it will on occasion, but it doesn’t always….
once it actually stuck to another space screen than the one I was viewing… that was frustrating…
October 31st, 2007 at 3:38 pm
I believe Adium is on the list of apps that do not work properly with Leopard? At least I think I saw that somewhere!?
I guess there will be some apps that just don’t like spaces, at least until the apps are updated!
November 1st, 2007 at 1:12 am
One annoying thing that keeps happening with Adium is that the chatwindow gets stuck in the spaces overview, so you can only see it when you hit F8. No way to interact with it, only solution I have found is to restart Adium.
November 1st, 2007 at 3:35 am
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have been looking for this solution but never tried using the assignment feature - why does Apple keep hiding these thing?! I’m going to post this (your page) in my blog with a link.
November 1st, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Great tip , Thanks
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:41 am
This is a very nice feature and I thank you for bringing it to my attention
I have however found one issue and that is the fact that you cannot put a java app in the list of assignment. It has to be a .app folder. I tried to do this with Zend Studio and it would not work.
November 3rd, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Great site! Thanks a lot for this suggestion, in particular. I hadn’t realized how convenient that would be until I realized it was possible, if that makes any sense.
November 4th, 2007 at 4:07 am
I don’t know if adium specifically has problems with Leopard, but I’ve also had problems with Activity monitor and others, so I doubt it.
A work around…when an application is stuck in one space instead of all of them, go back to spaces preferences, change it from “Every” to one space, then change it back to every. All of the application’s windows should work ok now for a while. Eventually, you’ll have to do this again.
I’ve already filed a bug report with Apple. I’m not sure what causes it, but I can usually trigger it by exiting the application and restarting it.
December 14th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
One thing that is also useful — app icons from the Finder can be dragged INTO the Spaces preference panel. You can drag them over the numbered space to easily save and select which space the go into. Better than remembering to select the space form the list below and keeping track of the space numbers. It’s about the location (up down left right) rather than numbers for me.
This is how you can quickly arrange spaces. I still wish there was a way to arrange a bunch of spaces and then “remember” the setting with a key press. That way one wouldn’t have to return to the panel. Hopefully default window locations would be saved as well.