Wow! Cool expose trick!

Littleodie914 · Jul 31, 2004

Hmm, not sure if this is just not very well known, or seriously under-discussed, but here I am, sitting in bed on my iBook, marvelling over this cool expose thingy. If you hold down the F10 key, it shows you all of the open windows for the frontmost application. Everyone knows that. But do you all know that if you press tab while holding down the F10 key, it switches to the windows of the next application? I did not... And if you hit tab while holding down F9, it switches you to F10 mode. Not a serious trick, but something that's pretty cool and could be of good use!

jared_kipe · Jul 31, 2004

Hey that is a good one.

goodtimes5 · Jul 31, 2004

broken_keyboard · Jul 31, 2004

Also you can hold down shift and it goes in slo-mo.

Simon Liquid · Jul 31, 2004

Never saw that. It works good for me, unless I'm typing I like to work with left hand on the left of the keyboard and right on mouse and I have f10 mapped to middle mouse button.

atari1356 · Jul 31, 2004

I didn't know that, that's pretty cool.

DJY · Aug 2, 2004

As a new switcher I love F9, F10, and F11!

Knew the SHIFT trick - which I think is more visual and gimmicky that practical - but the TAB trick - VERY HANDY!
Thanks mate!

MacFan26 · Aug 2, 2004

That is cool, I didn't notice it before. I did know about the tab slo-mo thing, but is it still supposed to work if you have the settings to hot corners? It won't on mine.

AmigoMac · Aug 2, 2004

I did notice it before... but

I use it with Command + ~ or < for german keyboards, as when you change windows in the same app.

I always thought it was a known feature

cb911 · Aug 3, 2004

very nice! and here i was thinking that all of the features of Expose had been discovered.

also, you can F9 as well then TAB will switch you to the F10 view and change application windows.

and if you see an app that you wanted, and don't want to TAB thorugh all the other open apps, you can also use '`' that key left of '1'.

but nothing happens for me when i hold down shift?

whooleytoo · Aug 3, 2004

Obviously it wasn't well known - as many here didn't seem to know it!

A variant of this is Cmd-Tabbing while in Expose mode, so you can switch directly to "F10" mode for that application.

FriarCrazy · Aug 3, 2004

That is awesome! As a recent switcher, I have made full use of expose. I always miss it when I go back to my PC, especially when I'm dragging and dropping between two windows.

Sabbath · Aug 3, 2004

Wow I wanted something like that for a while, very good trick thanks dude

jsw · Aug 3, 2004

Thanks for the tip. Just found out about "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras" last night, and now this. My ignorance is constantly being exposed....

garybUK · Aug 3, 2004

I never really thought i used expose` that much, but when im at work (NT4) i always find i go for the F9-F10-F11 keys like its second nature. Good sign of something just working, when you use it without thinking.

wrldwzrd89 · Aug 3, 2004

garybUK said:
I never really thought i used expose` that much, but when im at work (NT4) i always find i go for the F9-F10-F11 keys like its second nature. Good sign of something just working, when you use it without thinking.

I don't use expose all that much either, but I've never caught myself trying to activate Expose on a Windows machine.

andreasr · Aug 3, 2004

jsw said:
Thanks for the tip. Just found out about "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras" last night, and now this. My ignorance is constantly being exposed....

cool tip mate.. now how does one go and remove some of them again?

jsw · Aug 3, 2004

andreasr said:
cool tip mate.. now how does one go and remove some of them again?

Command (apple) click on them and drag them off the menu bar. Poof!

andreasr · Aug 3, 2004

excellent mate, thanks!

JuicyGoo · Aug 5, 2004

that's pretty cool! and you don't even have to hold down F9 or F10 when tabbing.

noel4r · Aug 5, 2004

cool, i'll try that when i get home.

mac_gal · Aug 6, 2004

jsw said:
Thanks for the tip. Just found out about "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras" last night, and now this. My ignorance is constantly being exposed....

I went there and I was wondering ... what does this do?

I couldn't quite figure out how to use it ... do I drag the icons somewhere?

jsw · Aug 6, 2004

Yeah, drag them to your menu bar. You've likely seen most of them before. The 'Eject' one, which was new to me, let's you eject the CD/DVD tray. Just command-drag them off again when you're done.

jsw · Aug 6, 2004

So sorry - I'm an idiot and tired to boot. Double-click the .menu items to install them. Command-drag to remove...

Edit: Not all of them will do anything apparent. 'Eject.menu' should, though.

me_94501 · Aug 6, 2004

garybUK said:
I never really thought i used expose` that much, but when im at work (NT4) i always find i go for the F9-F10-F11 keys like its second nature. Good sign of something just working, when you use it without thinking.

I'm the same way. I can no longer operate a computer without Exposé.

Wow! Cool expose trick!

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