ST not reopening in correct desktops but only in current one

[LucaMarconato]

Summary

When I reopen ST, the windows that were opened appear all in the current desktop, not in the desktops they were before.

Expected behaviour

The expected behaviour that the windows should reopen in the same desktop they were when I closed them.

Actual behaviour

The actual behaviour is that all windows open in the current desktop.
This is very annoying because I usually use two ore more ST windows, placed in various desktops and then I restart my Mac, or when I close ST with CMD+Q and then I reopen it, I always have to move the windows to the correct desktops.

Steps to reproduce.

1. Open two windows of ST.
2. Place the first windows in Desktop 1 and the second in Desktop 2.
3. From any window press CMD+Q.
4. Form any desktop open Spotlight Search, type Sublime Text and open it.
5. Now the two windows will be in your current desktop, not one in Desktop 1 and the other in Desktop 2

Environment

• Operating system and version:
  • Mac OS Sierra 10.12 Beta (16A294a). I experienced this bug also with El Capitan, Yosemite. I think also with previous versions of OS X.
• Sublime Text:
  • Build 3114
• I am not using any external monitor.

[nrichards]

Could this 'multiple monitors not respected at startup' be related to this 'modal dialogs not respecting visible Spaces' #1156 (comment) ?

[AugustSaintFreytag]

Bump — This is not a trivial issue, user experience problems should not be labelled as such.

One major plus for Sublime is that it seems to be a native app and should be expected to behave as one, in direct contrast to Atom and VSC. The lack of elastic scrolling and this window restore behaviour just seem generally very amateurish to me, like these wannabe-native Electron apps on offer.

[rik702]

Yes, this really needs fixing, the bug gives the impression ST isn't worth using on a Mac.

[ricopicone]

I agree it is not trivial and would like to see it fixed. Other apps, like iTerm2, for instance, have no trouble with this. Note that Chrome has a similar issue that's still not fixed.

[rik702]

Doesn't seem to be fixed in the 3.2 release :-(

[KeyMasterOfGozer]

I agree, this is super annoying.

[enhering]

I'd love to see this feature/fix too. I work with 8 SublimeText windows, one in each space/desktop on Mac, and hate to put them back to their spaces after a boot.

[michaelblyons]

Does ST do the right thing for Windows and Linux? I don't use virtual desktops on those systems, so I thought it was happening for everyone. Re-homing all my windows is my least favorite part of ST upgrades. 😆

[sampumon]

Just reporting that neither Chrome (80) nor Firefox (74) on macOS does the right thing…

[michaelblyons]

Just reporting that neither Chrome (80) nor Firefox (74) on macOS does the right thing…

@sampumon That is a great point.