Apple - How can I name desktops/spaces in El Capitan?
This is something that I wanted for ages, so I finally got around and built an open source solution!
It behaves similarly to TotalSpaces in that it uses SIMBL to hook into the display functionality, and uses an application with a top menu bar button to rename the desktops. To install it, just head over to my GitHub and follow the installation instructions!
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Edited Names
Name-changing UI
Nop, there is no way to do that =/ --> Now it's possible (EDIT)
By the way, you can put an application into fullscreen and the Desktop will take the application's name.
Related Questions :
The commercial TotalSpaces by binaryage allows you to name spaces.
Patrix :
May be worth noting that you need to partially disable SIP in order to use TotalSpaces, see http://totalspaces.binaryage.com/elcapitan
There IS, actually, a way to name your spaces. SORT OF.
That is, you can't change the name that appears under them when you use Mission Control (which I will go on record saying is one of Apple's biggest mistakes--Spaces was a million times better, even though it too was crippled in some respects), but you can assign names to them and make it easier to tell them apart.
The trick is that you can assign different desktop images to each 'space' (now called a Desktop). This will help make them easier to tell apart. As far as naming, this will be a huge pain, and definitely not ideal. But a kludgey solution is all Apple leaves open to us. You have to put the name on the image. Yup, open an image editor and add some text on top of those lily pads, or that lion's head, or whatever.
Yes, that sucks if you'd like to regularly name and rename your spaces. But if you have a few that you use most of the time, you can create a few desktop images with the names on them, and just live with it. I wish I could give a better solution, but it's out of my control obviously. This is, unless someone discovers an as yet hidden setting somewhere in OS X, or until Apple realizes their mistake and fixes Mission Control, the best we can do.
https://superuser.com/questions/313387/changing-name-of-space-in-mac-os-x-lion
How can I rename desktops in Mission Control?
EDIT (from redolent) :
http://totalspaces.binaryage.com/elcapitan-with-sip
A very low technology but quite direct solution is to assign keystrokes to each desktop (Preferences -> keyboard -> shortcuts -> Mission Control : allows you to assign ^1 to Desktop 1 and so on). Then write your desired Desktop Names on a small stickie note (a physical one!) and stick it near the number keys. All your Desktop names are constantly in view, and each is just a single keystroke away...