Open nickgolob opened 1 month ago
This may not necessarily be related to Spaces Renamer but rather how macOS is natively handling your Spaces based on the options you've configured in System Settings > Desktop and Dock > Mission Control
The first toggle is the most likely culprit.
Command+TAB
icons behave, where your most frequently visited apps propogate towards the left so that they can be tabbed to in just one or a few keystrokes whereas your least accessed appsend up populating towards the farther right-hand side of that list –– the same behavior will apply to your Spaces if this toggle is left in the ON position.The other option you might want to consider experimenting with is the last toggle towards the very bottom, i.e. Displays have separate Spaces
Automatically rearrange Spaces based on usage
toggle is also turned ON) either the recency, or the frequency, or some combination of both, of the B Space on your external monitor exceeds your usage patterns on the main display leading up to the disconnect – such that once only one main monitor is left macOS quickly reshuffles B in front of A as a higher priority Space based on the aggregate usage times of both A and B Spaces reflected across two separate displays.Ergo, no "unexpected" rearrangement will occur due to you disconnecting your display, since they don't share usage stats anymore. It's a more nuanced and subtle approach, requiring you to still be mindful of how often you spend time in Space A and B lest they rearrange themselves (but at least that calculation will only occur on the main display as opposed to seemingly random reshuffling occurring based on the aggregate values of usage times from duplicate Spaces spanning across two different displays).
That said, the most direct and straightforward fix is the first solution I mentioned. Since that first toggle is explicitly designed to automatically sort Spaces, turning this toggle off will cause macOS to drop the "MRU" algorithm and effectively switch to a user-configured manual-sort where your Spaces will safely remain static until you drag them around again.
Thank you!! Appreciate your help!
Describe the bug
After naming all of my spaces, the order gets messed up (I name two spaces, A and B. Later the names switch to B and A). I think this happens most often when unplugging from an external monitor.
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Command Outputs
Please paste the output of running these commands in Terminal:
ps aux | grep -v grep | grep -i macforge
root 1529 0.0 0.0 410676768 3728 ?? Ss Mon10PM 0:00.08 /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.macenhance.MacForge.Injector nickgolob 1526 0.0 0.1 412190416 36352 ?? S Mon10PM 0:04.09 /Applications/MacForge.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/MacForgeHelper.app/Contents/MacOS/MacForgeHelper
ps aux | grep -v grep | grep -i spacesrenamer
nickgolob 48832 0.1 0.3 35923208 84172 ?? S 3:48PM 0:12.56 /Applications/SpacesRenamer.app/Contents/MacOS/SpacesRenamercsrutil status
System Integrity Protection status: disabled.