Stage Manager 1.4.0

New apps can open in the stage you are in. Turn it on in Settings → Stages; hold Shift to give an app a stage of its own.
A strip that stays put: stages keep their places, or follow your Dock's order.
Settings has panes: General, Stage Manager, Stages, Windows and Advanced.
Going to another Desktop no longer pulls you back; no window edges in the corner while a Desktop slides in.

Install: download Stage-Manager.dmg, open it and drag Stage Manager into Applications, or brew install eugene-tea/tap/stage-manager. Signed and notarized. Needs macOS 14 or later on an Apple silicon Mac. Coming from 1.2.0 or 1.3.0, the app offers this update itself.

What's new

• New apps can open in the current stage: turn on Open new apps in the current stage (Settings → Stages) and a newly opened app joins the stage you are in. Hold Shift while opening an app to give it a stage of its own. Off by default, as Apple's.
• Stages can keep their places: set Strip order to Keep in Place (Settings → Stages) and each stage stays in its own place in the strip, whichever card you click.
• Or the strip can follow your Dock: Strip order → Follow the Dock puts the stages in the order their apps sit in the Dock. Rearrange the Dock and the cards follow.
• Settings has a toolbar of panes, as Mac apps' settings do: General, Stage Manager, Stages, Windows and Advanced.
• Going to another Desktop no longer pulls you back to the one you left.
• The edges of hidden windows no longer show in the corner while a Desktop slides in or a switch ends, including on Apple's dynamic wallpapers.
• An app that quits without macOS saying so (Home, which quits with its last window) no longer leaves a gray card behind.
• After a restart, an app macOS did not reopen opens where any new app does when you open it later, instead of going back into an old stage.
• A config file that can't be read no longer turns Settings back to the defaults: the last good config stays.
• An update that cannot put the previous version back no longer removes it: both copies stay, and the note at the next launch says where.

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