This only appears to happen when Scrivener is open. I’m not sure if Scrivener is doing something unusual to the application windows (I’m looking at you, PhotoShop) that could result in this slightly annoying behaviour.
Open a bunch of apps to populate Stage Manager
Open Scrivener
Occasionally when clicking between staged apps, the stage mini window ‘wobbles’ but doesn’t restore the window.
Occasionally, it restores the wrong window.
I only see this behaviour with Scrivener so far. I’ve been using a dozen large apps all day and they’re fine.
That’s interesting. I just clicked on Scrivener then went to click back to Edge/Twitter and had to click twice and yes, it’s only happing from Scrivener. How curious.
Scrivener shows up on the side of every desktop in Stage Manager
This happens whether Scrivener is open on that screen or not. No other App has this behaviour.
If I click on the ‘icon’ it brings up multiple other icons (presumably the other Scrivener documents I have open - although none are open on this desktop screen).
(I’ve brought this up in a ticket too - hopefully all of these get fixed)
Gah, now I’m back writing solidly every day; this Stage Manager bug is super annoying. It breaks keyboard switching between Scrivener & other apps, too, as it consistently brings up the wrong application windows. I really hope this is an easy fix as it’s a big UX pain right now. I’d be happy to provide screen recordings or any other debugging if it assists in a fix.
My workflow is frequent switching (CMD+Tab) between Scrivener (actual writing), Safari (reference), Discord (sprint bots) and Numbers (tracking). Switching from Scrivener, the incorrect next application is focused (just bobbles Scrivener again), until you repeat the switch. Switching to Scrivener often has similar results. This only happens if Scrivener is open. Switching between all other apps when Scrivener is closed and Stage Manager / Application switching works perfectly.
I can confirm your observation. What surprises me even more: There seems to be a connection between the occasional Scrivener crashes I reported earlier and Stage Manager.
I deactivated the Stage Manager and everything works reliably again, as usual.
I will stay away from the function for now and use macOs as usual.
SM is just too useful for my general day-job workflow. (un) fortunately Scrivener is the only app that I’m seeing this with. I suppose I could toggle it when writing (you can add it to the menu bar for quick access, or bind it to a key-combo, I believe).
Confirmed. macOS Ventura 13.1 appears to fix this, so chalked up to another Apple bug (now fixed). Big relief as this was by far the biggest pain point for me with Scrivener on the latest macOS.
