Spaces auto jumping to screens

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Is there a way to stop spaces automatically jumping to a different screen? If one screen is busy doing a process I will often go an do something else on a different screen only to be jumped mid process back to the first screen because something happened on that screen. This is most annoying.

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It sounds like you have programs specified for certain spaces. Check your System Preferences.
 
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Yes, I have specific programs assigned to different screens but surely I have control over whether OSX jumps me to those screen rather than allowing me to choose to navigate to them when I want?
 
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Check in your Spaces prefs to see if you can uncheck an option to jump focus to a needy app. I'm not sure if this would be in Spaces prefs or in another pref, but I think I remember seeing something like that.
 
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Yes, I have specific programs assigned to different screens but surely I have control over whether OSX jumps me to those screen rather than allowing me to choose to navigate to them when I want?

You'd think, right? Most programs handle spaces OK. Some... not so much.
For instance, if I run Fusion in Unity mode and IE is running... sometimes it will get caught in an endless loop of jumping from Space 1 to 2 (and back, endlessly). The only way to jump off that merry go round is to try to click the IE window to calm it down.

I think this to be a flaw in IE or Spaces, which of course were never meant to be together!
 
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I couldn't find such a preference. (Thats was my first thought)

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