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amityweb

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Having a very frustrating time with my Macbook and multiple monitors.

I have 3 monitors connected to Macbook 2020 with Big Sur (but the issue was also with High Sierra)

I assign certain apps to certain displays and desktops.

But when I come out of sleep, they never remember the positions, they always come back to my Macbook monitor, and I have to drag them bag and resize them. Not all the time, sometimes they are OK, but often they are not.

It may be due to the third monitor I have sometimes taking several minutes to wake up. I had this issue on 3rd party adapters, but bought Apple's own HDM and VGA adapter the other day and the issue still exists on there. Maybe a monitor issue.

I dont mind waiting a few minutes rather than buy a new monitor, but only if the apps stay on there and not come back to the Mac.

I wondered what the best software is I can assign apps to desktops and keep them there, OR at least with a press of a button it would move them all into the right places after they do all come back to my Macbook display.

Thanks!
 
Looks like Moom does not support multiple Desktops on each display. I have indeed saved a setup and assigned a hot key, so thats very good. I can press the key to get all my apps where I want them, EXCEPT it looks like they will only move to the visible display, not the one I set it on when I saved the setup.

It looks like its not saving apps into the layout which are on non-visible Desktops

I will contact the developer of it.
 
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I only use Moom on one monitor at a time, so cannot help you, but from this on the Moom page it sounds like it should be able to do what you are after.

Move windows across displays—and with chained commands, zoom them to new sizes and locations while moving.
 
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