Firstly, welcome to leopardtricks.com going live, right now, this minute, this second, on the 30th of October 2007! *applaud*
Okay, we all know there’s some cool new features in Leopard that just blow our minds. One of them is “spaces”. Now the “spaces” concept has been around for years on other *nix based operating systems, especially in XF86. “Spaces” in Leopard basically allows you to setup virtual desktops that you can switch between. Kind of like having virtual monitors or displays plugged into your mac with applications sitting on each display!
Try it! Press F8 to start spaces (or Fn-F8). Boom! Neat huh? You can click on a space to start working within, and load apps as you desire. You can open spaces at any time.
Now for some neat tricks. Say you have apps in various spaces, and you want to bring all the apps into one single space. Activate spaces then press “C”. Instantly your apps collect into one space! cool. Or what about combining spaces and expose`? Activate spaces then press F9 (or Fn-F9) and bingo, you can view all applications at once, in each space, in one hit. Click on the app in whichever space you like to go directly to that application!
January 8th, 2008 at 5:01 am
hey guys! new to the site and working my way thru the archives;
Leopardtricks.com is great! new to the macBook after years of MS
great tip
January 8th, 2008 at 5:46 am
nice one with the macbook! enjoy the site!
January 8th, 2008 at 6:42 am
been messing about with it for ages now!
works great when you have lots of spaces with lots app’s running and hit the ‘c’ in slow-mo shift! very cool indeed!
September 30th, 2008 at 6:52 am
Hey. Quick question. I’m on a Macbook Pro running Leopard and I’d really like to be able to access Spaces, the “all windows”, and “application windows” features using just F8, F9 and F10 instead of having to do Fn-F8, Fn-F9, etc. I cannot for the life of me figure out how I get it so I can access that stuff with jsut the one key instead of two.
September 30th, 2008 at 7:02 am
I’m sure there’s an option in the preferences under keyboard for this…
September 30th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
There is an option to set the keyboard shortcuts and it appears to be set correctly but it still requires holding down the Fn key. What’s really weird is some of the keyboard shortcuts that use the F-keys require the Fn key to be held down as well and others do not- but they’re all set the same way in System Preferences.