MacOS – Lion : Assigning a fullscreen app to a space

macosspaces

With SnowLeopard, I was using spaces, with two spaces. On the second space, I was running a fullscreen application.

I created a shortcut to switch from my first space to the second space : Cmd+1 goes to space 1, Cmd+2 goes to space 2 (displaying my fullscreen app).

I recently upgraded to Lion and cannot reconfigure it to have the same behavior I had with Snow Leopard :

When running my app fullscreen, a new space (sub-space ?) dedicated to this app is created. Now, when pressing Cmd+2, it displays space 2, but it is empty, as my fullscreen app is somewhere else.

How can I make sure my fullscreen app sticks to a space, so that using Cmd+1 and Cmd+2, I can quickly switch between my normal desktop (space 1) and my fullscreen app (space 2) ?

Best Answer

In Lion, the only options you have to manage the order of spaces are...

  • System Preferences → Mission Control → Automatically rearrange spaces based on most recent use

  • Manually drag spaces in Mission Control

The shortcuts to switch between spaces and desktops are set in...

  • System Preferences → Keyboard → Mission Control

But, you can only set direct shortcuts to Desktops - not any space.

enter image description here