Ask HN: Do you use the virtual desktops feature in OS X Mountain Lion? • Hacker News Board

Post by Wilduck » Thu, Jan 17, 2013, 7:41 PM UTC

tagabek wrote: post #8

Wilduck wrote: post #4

Yes absolutely. I have an 11' Air and I really like being able to transition between known desktop layouts with just a three finger swipe. Below is a picture and description of how I keep my desktops organized. +---+ +---+ +---+ +---+ +---+ +---+ | F | | T | |EF | |Ch | | G | |Pdf| +---+ +---+ +---+ +---+ +---+ +---+ F = All my "fun" windows. Chrome with facebook, hn, reddit, etc; iTunes; Other programs that I open a…

How do you keep your desktops separate? It seems that any change made in one is automatically made in the others. I have found that you can limit an application to one desktop, but if that is true, then how do you use two separate Chrome tabs in two different desktops?

I'm not totally sure what you're asking. I've never seen a change made to one desktop made automatically to the others. The problem I do run in to is that when I open a program for the first time it seems to appear in one of my desktops at random. When that happens I just three finger swipe up and drag the window to the desktop it belongs in. I never limit a program to one desktop, I just move its window there if it gets out of place.

These things really aren't too much of an issue for me though, mostly because I am loath to ever close a window or restart a program, which leads to everything happily sitting where I placed it.