Leopard Tricks Tips and Tools

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.

written by Justin Wah Kan \\ tags: expose, navigation, tips

I found this handy little trick on macosxhints.com. Most people use Exposé quite frequently, I know I do. I have one of my hot corners set to “show desktop” which I like to do if I want to make sure something has downloaded correctly. However, all of my windows get shoved off the screen and there’s that annoying black border. So when I found this terminal command, I was delighted.

Open terminal and type in:
defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-olddesktop -bool false

Then, restart the dock by typingkillall DockThis way, when you “show desktop” (default F11) all of your windows combine into a little window on your desktop.

written by conorjs1224 \\ tags: dock, expose, Leopard

Maybe this is something widely known but I stumbled upon it just recently:

When you activate Expose in Application windows mode (F10) you can use Tab to cycle through all apps’ application windows in current space.

written by emircajic \\ tags: expose, Leopard

Revisit with Video:

If you have multiple apps open in multiple spaces you can display all spaces and hit F9 (or whatever key you have mapped for expose) and you will get a display of every window open in every space. Since it’s easier to see than to read here is a video of it in action: link to video 

written by baldingnerd \\ tags: expose, Leopard, osx, Spaces, tricks