@mevets I don’t think unchecking that box would help. This is what I found on the O’Reilly site:
" If ‘Displays have separate Spaces’ is turned on in the Mission Control panel of System Preferences then each monitor has its own set of Spaces. When you use one of the gestures or keystrokes for switching Spaces, you affect the Spaces on only one monitor: the one that contains your cursor at the moment."
Left unchecked, the Spaces would change on both monitors whenever I hit Ctl-Left or Ctl-Right.
Thanks for the posts, though! I guess there isn’t an automation solution until Apple fixes this.
Yep. It seems you need separate spaces per monitor for your workflow. One of my hobbies is photography, so when using an app like Photo Mechanic I’ll have windows open on multiple monitors, and I want all of the monitors to be one space. That’s what works for me.
I was suggesting it just to see if it changed the behavior of what you are seeing, and if the issue was related to using that option, as that is a difference, albeit not the only one, in how we both use spaces.
You are welcome. I was an interesting challenge. And it sure would be useful to automate the addition and subtraction of spaces based on context.
I have this problem too, but I have only one external display for the machine that gets regularly docked/undocked. I never found a solution and in the end decided that prior to undocking, to just move the spaces from the secondary (laptop) display over to the primary (external) display and tuen undock (and then move them back when I re-dock). It’s not elegant but it works and I don’t undock more than once a day or so.
For context, I arrange my spaces by project rather than application, so any app may have windows open on multiple spaces.
Edit: I just realized that this is an older post. Thanks @RodriguezLucha for resurfacing it, because I found new things to maybe try Also, welcome to the forum!
