Do you use Spaces?

[iLog.Genius]

Did when I didn't have an external monitor. With an external, I can open many windows on the external monitor and then just use Expose to find the window I need - beats having to switch to different spaces and much more quicker to!

 

[Q-chan]

Couldn't live without...

I use 9 spaces on my MBP. I used the spaces equivalent on Digital Unix and use it on Linux too. Couldn't work without anymore.

The only thing which annoys me a lot on Apple's implementation is the jumping of windows into different spaces when you move them along, or into, the menu bar. I wished I would find a preference to suppress this.

 

[PlaceofDis]

I use 9 spaces on my MBP. I used the spaces equivalent on Digital Unix and use it on Linux too. Couldn't work without anymore.

The only thing which annoys me a lot on Apple's implementation is the jumping of windows into different spaces when you move them along, or into, the menu bar. I wished I would find a preference to suppress this.

i use 9 spaces as well, on my iMac. i assign apps to specific spaces so i don't quite have the jumping problem. but its useful so things are a lot less cluttered in each 'space'. love it.

 

[skunk]

Never bothered with Spaces or Exposé.

 

[mrsir2009]

Never needed it.

 

[smithrh]

The only thing which annoys me a lot on Apple's implementation is the jumping of windows into different spaces when you move them along, or into, the menu bar. I wished I would find a preference to suppress this.

Yes, this can be annoying from time to time. Every once in a while I'll get a Mac application running on top of my XP window.

You can "pin" apps to windows; this works well when I want XP (Parallels) in space #2 and remote desktop in space #3 but I'd have to specify everything else as being space #1. As it is now the main apps (Safari, iTunes, iPhoto, etc) are specifically pinned to #1, but it's the odd ones (like Software Update) that sometimes get shown on #2/#3 if I'm shifting spaces frequently.

 

[Gregg2]

I use 4 Spaces for 6 different sets of apps. I just don't use some things in the same session, so I'm never overloaded.

 

[Jolly Jimmy]

The only thing which annoys me a lot on Apple's implementation is the jumping of windows into different spaces when you move them along, or into, the menu bar. I wished I would find a preference to suppress this.

Yes, this can be annoying from time to time. Every once in a while I'll get a Mac application running on top of my XP window.

You can change the delay time before it switches spaces with a terminal command. Just set it to something really long and it'll be as if it were off.

defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-edge-delay -float 99

To revert to the default setting :

defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-edge-delay -float 0.75

 

[astrodog]

No, haven't ever found the need. I'm more of a minimizer to switch between apps....

 

[Tyler23]

Never really figured out exactly how it all works, but I've never had the need for it either.

 

[vnle]

I used to when i had a mighty mouse. I could squeeze the mouse and activate Spaces but now with the magic mouse i cant do that. So i dont use it anymore. If it was effortlessly available then i would as its a v good feature but finding and reaching for buttons on your keyboard kind of negates the main purpose of spaces and thats efficiency. By the time you have found the button, pressed it and spaces activated you could of found the window you want in the dock with a click of a mouse. The magic mouse needs more gestures support.

Your magic mouse's best friend 🙂 http://magicprefs.com/

 

[-aggie-]

I couldn’t really find how Spaces could make things better for me than just normal navigation, but I do use Exposé (bottom left corner is my show desktop).