I'm fairly new to MacOS having come from Linux & Windows where managing virtual desktops was a breeze but I'm facing problems replicating my previous experience on MacOS. Basicly I have a large external main screen and a smaller external second screen plugged into a dock to my Macbook Air M4 which is kept closed. Each virtual desktop is comprised of those two screens so when I shift left or right to another virtual desktop the content in both screens moves exactly as it should, so all good so far.
- The problem arises when I come back to the Mac to continue a session from sleep/hibernate mode I find the content that was on the second screen has shifted to the main screen. This is a pain depending on how many desktops I've got on the go. Maybe there is a utility which can help me with this as MacOS does not seem to be setup for this, perhaps a window manager.
- Another limitation I've discovered is when assigning multiple monitors to a single desktop I lose lots of options from the window's tool palette (i.e. top left window controls) and am only left with the move and resize options left & right. This is the palette you see when you hover over the rightmost window control.
- if you full screen as opposed to maximise one of your windows it will completely blank the other screen and seems to create a whole new desktop in mission control. The workaround I found is to double click the window title bar instead of fullscreening.
- Another issue I'm having is if I try to open a new Google Chrome window in a different virtual desktop which is empty the OS switches me to another populated virtual desktop and opens the new Chrome window there!!!!! And the weird thing is it seems to pick the same virtual desktop to do this and not necessarily the last one I used. If I go to a populated virtual desktop with Chrome already open and open a new Chrome window it's fine. Go figure! Is this a Chrome thing or a MacOS oddity I wonder?
