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Mac OS X Lion has made some big changes to how we work with apps and spaces. What used to be Spaces are now Desktops, just for starters. As someone who made heavy use of Spaces in Snow Leopard, I’ve been getting to know my way around Lion and its desktops – and one thing I had been missing was the ability to assign an individual app to a specific space.

I say had been missing because now I know how to do this in OS X Lion, and that makes me happy. So just in case you don’t know how to do this yet, and in case it might make you a little happy too, here’s what you need to do to assign an app to a specific desktop. Lets use Mail as our example app for this:

Step1: Launch Mission Control – via a four or five finger swipe up on your trackpad – and click on whichever desktop Mail is currently running in.

Step 2: If that’s the desktop you want Mail to always run in, then skip to Step 3. If it’s not then fire up Mission Control again and drag the Mail app into the desktop you want to assign it to.

Step 3: Now find he icon for Mail in your Dock and do a Control-click on it (or right mouse click) and choose Options from the menu that pops up. You’ll see that the lower section of the dialog that pops up is all about desktop assignment for Mail. You can choose to assign it to ‘This desktop’ (hence the previous step), to all desktops (useful for apps like Finder), or to none.

That’s all there is to it. Now you can manage apps and spaces in Lion.

I’ve tested this out with several of my everyday essential apps and it works well – and ‘sticks’ after quitting and restarting apps and after a restart of the Mac.

Happy Lion desktop organizing.

Thanks to the guys at Mac OS X Hints for the heads-up on this.

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