When I upgraded to Ventura all windows move to 14" M1 MacBook Pro when is wakes from sleep. This started after the Ventura upgrade and never before. I swapped my home screen and dock to my 32" HDR 4K LG display and now all the screen wake on the external display rather than the laptop.
Nothing is checked under Mission Control, but the problem continues.
MacBook Pro Apple Silicon
Hello RR_M_SS,
If there are some apps that you'd like to assign to a particular display/desktop, you may do this via the following:
This page can help provide some further helpful info on using multiple spaces: Work in multiple spaces on Mac - Apple Support
Cheers.
I've restarted my Mac with "Displays have separate Spaces" on and off. Neither have solved the problem. This is something that has started only after I upgraded to Ventura. No hardware has changed. Very frustrating and is a Ventura issue.
In Mission Control settings try turning on Displays have separate Spaces
RR_M_SS wrote:
When I right-click on an open (or closed) app in the dock and select Options, I only see "Keep in dock, open at login or show in finder" and nothing about assigning to a desktop.
The option to choose "Desktop in Display 1" (or 2) only appears when there is at least two Spaces (a.k.a. "desktops") on at least one of the displays.
This is a fine solution for individual apps but not the optimal solution for one app with multiple windows. I don't want to assign safari to one desktop, but I have several windows across multiple desktops across 3 different monitors.
Before I could put the windows wherever I wanted and they would stay there. Now on Venturra when I open up my MacBook from sleep there is a chance that a good chunk of my windows will have been sent to my main laptop screen for some reason. Very annoying and MacOS has basically gotten worse at this and regressed.
Any ideas on how to fix it? A terminal command maybe?
I use the app “Moom” (paid app), which has a preference that can memorize your window arrangement in a per monitor basis, including single monitor (eg. You laptop) or multiple monitors.
another utility is “Stay” (paid app), which does more or less the same thing.
When I right-click on an open (or closed) app in the dock and select Options, I only see "Keep in dock, open at login or show in finder" and nothing about assigning to a desktop.
Have you always used that? The problem I am having is that MacOS always did this for you but now it isn't working anymore. I may consider using that since MacOS seems to be getting worse at this...
Yes, it is on for me I always have that on. Where is the best place to draw attention to this MacOS bug?
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