While clicking around in Exposé I noticed a couple useful features that might not be so obvious right away. Once in Exposé you can navigate through your applications and windows in a variety of ways.
Lets explore!
Firstly, get into Exposé (for all windows).
Pressing the “tab” key will switch between Exposé windows for only the selected applications. If you have the Dock showing notice the selected application highlighted as you switch between different ones.
You can also navigate between application windows within Exposé by clicking on the application icon in the Dock. Clicking unopened application icons will close Exposé.
With Exposé open you can also switch between windows by using the arrow keys as well as mousing over each item. If you press the “spacebar” the selected item will come into focus while remaining in Exposé. This option will give you a clearer preview of the selected window. If by chance you selected the wrong window preview fret not. You can still switch between selected application windows by with the arrow keys as well as mousing over the original orientation of the other windows. This navigation method applies to Exposé for all windows as well.
Stay tuned for more great tips.
June 12th, 2010 at 5:59 pm
Hold down the control key while pressing the exposé key (F3) to get to the application-specific view, or hold down command to get all windows out of the way and view your desktop. Also, holding down option (alt) and pressing F3 opens system preferences in the “Exposé and Spaces” section.
By the way: that works for some more function keys. Hold down option and press F1/F2 to get to the Displays section of System Preferences, option + F3/F4 for Exposé and Spaces, or Option + F10/F11/F12 for the Sound section is System Preferences.