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Okay so that's the button im looking for.. What pops up when you click it? I get this by clicking "Exposé and Spaces" That's the old menu right?
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I don't know if it's been said yet, but you can now have a separate wall paper for each desktop. People have been asking for this since spaces was introduced.
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yeah, no "mission control" prefpane here.
yeah, no "mission control" prefpane here.
I can't remember SL tbh, but I'd say faster
You are wrong, as it happens. Switching months in SL iCal is instantaneous, no animation - just click "next month" and it appears faster than a human can perceive it.
I'm a little puzzled over how you can think that anything with an animation can be faster than something without animation.
Not saying that animation doesn't serve a purpose, but it doesn't make things faster.
The first time I opened System Preferences, it showed Expose & Spaces. I closed it and re-opened System Prefs and then it had changed to Mission Control. The actual functions remain exactly the same either way, it's just called MC instead of Expose & Spaces.
hlfway2anywhere -- Is that third icon in your dock something new? It looks like Mission Control/Spaces (I keep getting these two confused) related, but I've not seen it before.
Please please go back to the old MacRumors design
The species that have survived the longest have been the ones who have adapted to change the best.
You seem to be giving up a little bit too easily.
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Big bug with screen savers: every time mine has come on, it freezes up and beach balls when I try to enter my password to get out of it. I had to do a hard restart 3 times (with different screen savers). Maybe I should try doing a clean install though.
Also, reopening every app and window every time you log in is getting old fast. It just took 2 minutes to get from the login screen to the desktop because of it.
Plus, I hate that it reopens windows when you quit and reopen an app. I've had to force quit Safari because a webpage was causing it to completely freeze up and yet when I open reopen Safari, it starts loading the same page! If I force quit an app, it should not try to restore what was open - I had to force quit for a reason!
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Anyway, nice new feature (perhaps this was in earlier builds but I don't think it was) is that it shows the clock and battery level at the upper right on all the screensavers (when you move your mouse).
Big bug with screen savers: every time mine has come on, it freezes up and beach balls when I try to enter my password to get out of it. I had to do a hard restart 3 times (with different screen savers). Maybe I should try doing a clean install though.
Also, reopening every app and window every time you log in is getting old fast. It just took 2 minutes to get from the login screen to the desktop because of it.
Plus, I hate that it reopens windows when you quit and reopen an app. I've had to force quit Safari because a webpage was causing it to completely freeze up and yet when I open reopen Safari, it starts loading the same page!
If I force quit an app, it should not try to restore what was open - I had to force quit for a reason!-----------------------------
Anyway, nice new feature (perhaps this was in earlier builds but I don't think it was) is that it shows the clock and battery level at the upper right on all the screensavers (when you move your mouse).
eew, Mission Control really needs to be on two lines in System Prefs.
Looking good though. Can't understand the excitement over the wallpapers to be honest... I've seen nicer.
Instead of cmd+D try cmd+. or hitting the escape button. Those traditionally point to the cancel button on any dialog.
This thread has to do with the new update which they've added wallpapers and tweaked iCal.
Time machine takes a bit longer if you encrypt your backup disk (over wireless anyway) I'm waiting to get a faster mac before I start encrypting everything.
You encrypt as your format it (in the same options as case sensitivity, journaling etc).
its the mission control icon. i pulled it from my Launchpad and stuck it in the Dock. it's the same icon as Exposé since like... Leopard though.
Yep, that works to cancel. But that just closes the Save dialog, it doesn't close the document without saving.
probably because apple hides it in your Applications folder. Unless you manually put it in the Dock it never really shows itself.
Activate mission control and move your mouse just to the right of where the desktops are shown and a little box with a "+" appears.
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I have this weird bug where I can't turn off the keyboard illumination on my MacBook Pro. I've even tried third-party software but that just makes the damned thing flicker. As an aside, I love the new "Forest in Mist" wallpaper!
I've found another small bug when using Mission Control. If you create a new Desktop and activate it, then go back to Mission Control and remove that Desktop then your old desktop will retain very small versions of each of your windows. It thinks that the windows are still in a preview mode of some sort, and it's a little amusing.
It's hard to see in the picture, but it looks like this:
I've found another small bug when using Mission Control. If you create a new Desktop and activate it, then go back to Mission Control and remove that Desktop then your old desktop will retain very small versions of each of your windows. It thinks that the windows are still in a preview mode of some sort, and it's a little amusing.
It's hard to see in the picture, but it looks like this:
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Oh I see! Thanks for that no need for this stupid Mission Control preference anymore! haaha
You can also get rid of desktops by hovering over it and a second later an "X" shows up in the upper left of that desktop so you can delete it.
I'm surprised by the number of people who seem to be liking the new login screen. Not too crazy about it based on the pictures I've seen. Grey seems to show the inconsistencies of a monitor really badly (well?).