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MacOS Open New Window keyboard shortcut/menu option not opening a new window

#1

I’m not entirely sure when this started happening, but I only noticed it this morning. If I have a window open, and either hit the keyboard shortcut, or use the menu option, I don’t get a new window, I get a new tab in the current window. I know this used to work the way I expect it to, so I’m not sure what changed. I have the “open_files_in_new_window” option set to true in my preferences, but changing it to false doesn’t change the behavior I’m seeing. If I minimize/hide the current window, the shortcut/menu option work as expected.

EDIT: I verified that the correct keybindings appear in my settings, and they are correct as far as what I understand they should be.
{ “keys”: [“super+shift+n”], “command”: “new_window” }
{ “keys”: [“super+n”], “command”: “new_file” }

Any thoughts on how or why this is happening, and what I can do to make it work as expected?

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#2

This is MacOS doing you a favor; specifically I think this was added in MacOS Sierra, although I’m not 100% certain because I haven’t accepted that update.

In any case, if you look in System Preferences > Dock there is a setting there for Prefer tabs when opening documents that you can change to stop it from doing this by default.

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#3

Interesting. I’ve been on High Sierra for months, but I just installed the 10.13.3 late last week, so maybe that had something to do with it.

In any case, that seems to have solved my problem, so thanks for that!

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