Fix for missing "Assign to..." Mission Control bug in 10.8.x
May 16, '13 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: ShadowBottle
May 16, '13 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: ShadowBottle
Having originally upgraded to 10.8 from 10.7, all of my applications' desktop assignments in (now) Mission Control were already set. I recently decided to wipe and install a fresh copy of OS X 10.8.3, and discovered that, for many of my apps, the option to "Assign to..." particular desktops or to all desktops was missing. After roaming through forum after forum I finally found a workaround for this bug.
Thankfully it's relatively simple. If you right-click on the Dock icon of a running application and you find that the "Assign to..." option is missing from the "Options" sub-menu (and of course you have multiple desktops setup in Mission Control first), if you launch the application from LaunchPad, the option to assign the application to a particular desktop will a) magically appear, and b) continue to use that assigned space regardless of how it is launched in the future.
Hope this is helpful. I spent a few good afternoons trying to fix this. Supposedly there is a bug open in Radar at Apple about this issue since the 10.8 release but it still has yet to be fixed as of 10.8.3.
[kirkmc adds: I use Spaces; um Mission Control, or whatever, and haven't seen this. The only time I have issues is when I update an app via the Mac App Store and launch it. It then doesn't go to the assigned desktop, even though the Dock menu shows that it is, indeed, set to stay on that desktop. But when I move it, it stays there after the next reboot.]
Thankfully it's relatively simple. If you right-click on the Dock icon of a running application and you find that the "Assign to..." option is missing from the "Options" sub-menu (and of course you have multiple desktops setup in Mission Control first), if you launch the application from LaunchPad, the option to assign the application to a particular desktop will a) magically appear, and b) continue to use that assigned space regardless of how it is launched in the future.
Hope this is helpful. I spent a few good afternoons trying to fix this. Supposedly there is a bug open in Radar at Apple about this issue since the 10.8 release but it still has yet to be fixed as of 10.8.3.
[kirkmc adds: I use Spaces; um Mission Control, or whatever, and haven't seen this. The only time I have issues is when I update an app via the Mac App Store and launch it. It then doesn't go to the assigned desktop, even though the Dock menu shows that it is, indeed, set to stay on that desktop. But when I move it, it stays there after the next reboot.]
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