Thanks for sharing, I've been wanting something like this for a while! It works great.
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Thanks for sharing, I've been wanting something like this for a while! It works great.
sorry for being the thread police but the force quit and volume alert in the menu bar tips are not Leopard specific. also the force quit tip only works if the application is not responding.
thanks for the adium tip... very helpful for when my contact list is hidden
Yes, be open, and share what you found, you never know, it may be new or old, but others may not have known about it.
Nope, if you hold down the option key and right click or hold down your mouse button on the dock icon of a running application, you will be presented with two different options, "Hide others" and "Force quit".
Here is one I found. Not sure it's old or not.
Hold the gray bar of any windows, then press Ctrl + up/down/left/right arrow, you can drag your windows to any other spaces.
Useful for me
Hold the gray bar of any windows, then press Ctrl + up/down/left/right arrow, you can drag your windows to any other spaces.
Useful for me
Here's a feature that's not provided: If you drag a tab off the Safari bar, you can't drag it to an edge of the screen to move it to another Space.
You can do it in two steps, however. Drag the tab off the tab bar and let go to have it turn into a window. Then drag the title bar of the window to an edge of the screen and onto other Space.
Since I do this quite a lot, I'd rather see it become a single operation. Come to think of it, it would nice if you could control-click on a link and have a contextual menu choice of Open in New Space!
You can do it in two steps, however. Drag the tab off the tab bar and let go to have it turn into a window. Then drag the title bar of the window to an edge of the screen and onto other Space.
Since I do this quite a lot, I'd rather see it become a single operation. Come to think of it, it would nice if you could control-click on a link and have a contextual menu choice of Open in New Space!
Here is one I found. Not sure it's old or not.
Hold the gray bar of any windows, then press Ctrl + up/down/left/right arrow, you can drag your windows to any other spaces.
Useful for me
That's very useful.
No, I'm sure he meant ctrl. That's the default for moving through spaces. I use it all the time (though I use ctrl + # of space, not arrows). Either or is fine.
If you select Show Keyboard Viewer or use this widget to launch it, you will get a visual representation of all the various symbols that you can get by using shortcuts and modifer keys. With it open just press different modifier keys and see what comes up.
Holding down the option key and pressing the brightness or volume function keys will open up the display and sound preference panes respectively.
I think this may also work in Tiger.
I think this may also work in Tiger.
That's what happened with my Leopard the other day, but I don't have the warp installed, so it may be a hidden feature of Leopard that in some way I activated or maybe it was an application that I had working at that moment and had the same feature like warp.
A few things that I've just found out
1. (not sure if this is pre-Leopard)
CMD click an icon in the dock to reveal it in the finder. CMD click a stack to open it in finder.
2. In cover flow mode (finder) we all know you can use CMD + DOWN to go down a folder, but if you go CMD + RIGHT it opens the folder, and shows its contents without you having to go into the folder.
Hard to explain, but try it!
1. (not sure if this is pre-Leopard)
CMD click an icon in the dock to reveal it in the finder. CMD click a stack to open it in finder.
2. In cover flow mode (finder) we all know you can use CMD + DOWN to go down a folder, but if you go CMD + RIGHT it opens the folder, and shows its contents without you having to go into the folder.
Hard to explain, but try it!
1. Pretty old, but still valid.
2. Option + Right/Left opens/collapses the folder and all subfolders of that folder.
I can't get this to work. I hold down option then click a folder with its sub-folders open, when i open the folder again, all its subfolders are still open. I am running 10.5.1.
snverhallen
Highlight a folder and hold Option then press Right Arrow to open and Left Arrow to close all subfolders (Cover Flow and List Views).
finder view setting behaviour
what i don't understand about the leopard is the finders view settings.
the view settings for each folders are not saved by default the view settings are applied globally unless i right click and save a view specifically for a folder and even then sometimes it doesn't seem to remember.
and also it doesn't remember the size of the finder windows for each folder.
every time i reboot it goes back to a very small size window size.
argghh~ i wish this can be fixed. any tips??
what i don't understand about the leopard is the finders view settings.
the view settings for each folders are not saved by default the view settings are applied globally unless i right click and save a view specifically for a folder and even then sometimes it doesn't seem to remember.
and also it doesn't remember the size of the finder windows for each folder.
every time i reboot it goes back to a very small size window size.
argghh~ i wish this can be fixed. any tips??
I've always been annoyed by how Finder windows behave, and in Leopard I can't seem to make a window which view settings I've already messed with use my preset defaults (i.e. you set your Documents folder's view settings to be the default and you want your Movies folder to use those defaults, but because you've previously changed its view settings you can't make it use the default without changing it manually). Before Leopard there were radio buttons for "This Window Only" and "All Windows."
so i don't know if this is known or not but new to me....
If you take a window and drag it to a side and top/bottom and hold it for 2-3 seconds it will go to that space.... pretty neat
If you take a window and drag it to a side and top/bottom and hold it for 2-3 seconds it will go to that space.... pretty neat
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