Specific Mountain Lion Annoyances

• Applications often place themselves automatically in an alternate ``space'', and only Control-1 and Control-2 seem to work to select Space 1 or Space 2. There seems to be no way to set key equivalents for spaces in ``Mission Control'' [not]. To reach higher numbered spaces, I have to use Command-RightArrow multiple times. Compared to Spaces on the Mac, xmonad-gnome on Linux feels light-years ahead.

• There seems to be no way to view the iPhone simulator and the full-screen Xcode window simultaneously, even with two physical screens. In the two-screen case, Xcode takes over a higher-numbered space on the large screen, and my laptop is also forced to a corresponding screen that is blank. There seems to be no way to place the iPhone simulator on the blank laptop screen, and the full-screen Xcode will not let it display there at all. Maybe there is an ``always on top'' checkbox in the Xcode preferences that I haven't found yet. In the meantime, I have to avoid full-screen mode for Xcode. (I should mention that I am an Xcode newbie, though I was comfortable with ProjectBuilder in the old NeXTSTEP days.)