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Bill_D

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Nov 21, 2022
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I've been using four desktops for many years. Until recently (I think with Sequoia 15.0), I could assign apps to desktops or place windows on them and switch with keyboard shortcuts with never a problem.

Now, whether I assign apps to desktops or not, desktops change places for no apparent reason. It may take several hours, sometimes overnight. It's always the same changes: desktop 3 jumps to 4, 4 jumps to 2, and 2 jumps to 3. For example, if I assign VMware Fusion to desktop 4, eventually i will find it on desktop 2 and right-clicking on the dock icon shows that it has been reassigned to desktop 2. If I open it on 4 and set its assignment to None, it will still jump to 2 after a while. The same thing happens to the Firefox windows I want to keep on 2 and 3. Desktop 1 is stable.

The computer is a 2018 Mac mini, 6-core i5, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, Sequoia 15.3.

Any ideas?
 
there is an option in system preferences somewhere to move most recent desktops forward in the stack or something like that, you need to turn it off.
 
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