Keep Cua Spaces running in the background

What closing the Cua Spaces window and quitting do on a Mac: the window closes and agents keep working, Quit stops the app and the background service.

On a Mac, Cua Spaces runs a background service next to the app, so your agents can create and manage Spaces whether or not the window is open. The service is a login item named Cua Spaces (System Settings, General, Login Items & Extensions, Allow in the Background).

Close the window#

Closing the window does not stop anything. The app stays in the menu bar, and the service and the Spaces keep running. The first time you close the window, and each time after until you turn it off, Cua Spaces shows a small note under its menu bar icon: it is still running in the background so your agents can create and manage their Spaces.

Choose what the close button does in Settings, General, When I close the window:

• Keep running in the background is the default.
• Quit Cua Spaces makes the close button quit, the same as Quit below.

Tell me when Cua Spaces keeps running turns the note on or off. The note's own Don't Show Again button does the same.

Quit#

To stop Cua Spaces, choose Quit Cua Spaces from the menu bar icon, or press Cmd-Q. Both stop the app, the background service, Cua Driver's login item and the Cua daemon, so no agent can reach this Mac's Spaces until you open Cua Spaces again. The close-window setting only changes the close button, never Cmd-Q.

Opening Cua Spaces again starts the service and attaches to it. There is never a second copy.

Updates#

Updating Cua Spaces does not stop the background service for long. The service notices that the app was replaced and restarts itself onto the new version within a few seconds. Your Spaces, settings and data stay where they are.