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I’ve tried so many times to use Spaces, and I keep failing. As useful as it *should* be, it just never was. And I’ve finally realized why. Most of what I do is in a web browser. And spaces just wasn’t made for that. I want Gmail to always be in space 3. Facebook on 4. It just wasn’t meant for that.
I’ve recently discovered Fluid. Fluid brings creates Site Specific Browsers. This means I have an actual application that I launch called Gmail. It’s independent from everything else, doesn’t crash when Safari does (which, to be honest, is all the time). I can assign it to a space. So good.
Also, I’ve discovered hitting F9 (expose) after triggering F8 for spaces, it’ll do expose over all the spaces. Pretty cool way to organize.
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I love this to but am bugged by one issue — when I have a Fluid app showing, switching spaces via hotkey (e.g. ctrl+up/down/etc) is very noticeably jerky. If I just hide all fluid apps (I am using 2 different ones currently, gmail & lighthouse) the spaces-transition immediately becomes smooth again. Have you seen this too by chance?