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Mac OS X Leopard's Spaces

I stand corrected!

Thanks all you guys!

With the 'birds-eye' mode. it IS possible to move a window from one space to another. is my face red: Nothing new in this computing game. At least for me! Spaces is now actually a real solution to the organization problem!

I guess the first time I tried F8, I must have fat-fingered it or something and thought it was the computer's problem. Silly me. :eek:

As far as Apple's designers: Well done.
 
jahbini said:
Thanks all you guys!

With the 'birds-eye' mode. it IS possible to move a window from one space to another. is my face red: Nothing new in this computing game. At least for me! Spaces is now actually a real solution to the organization problem!

I guess the first time I tried F8, I must have fat-fingered it or something and thought it was the computer's problem. Silly me. :eek:

As far as Apple's designers: Well done.
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Yea spaces is really really really well thought out. They did a fantastic job. I love just flyin around all of them then using expose when i have crowded spaces. Its just so useful!
 
spaces are inferior to multiple desktops on linux solely because you cannot have different wallpapers :cool:


Just kidding I love spaces and they'll definetly be useful.


mentioning backgrounds....10.5.1 maybe?
 
Automatic Spaces?

So I like Spaces. I am thinking it will help me be more organized. I have set certain applications to be set to specific spaces. However, now when someone IMs me with iChat... Spaces automatically takes me to that space. It's kinda annoying when I am trying to work. It is only the initial IM but still... ANNOYING. Has anyone else experienced this?
 
I really like the idea of spaces, and I always have, but in general I just can't get myself to use them... It ends up being more hastle for me then they are worth.

part of it might also be that I (almost, unless I'm on the road) have two LCDs hooked up. Even still, I use expose so much that I normally don't have a problem managing windows.

The two exceptions to this are when I'm editing multiple images at once (for the newspaper), in which case a seperate work area for photoshop might be nice, AND when I'm programing or writing a web app, so I could have a seperate "space" with a slew of browsers open for testing.
 
I've noticed that you can invoke the Exposé "all windows" display from within the Spaces control screen. Press F8 then F9, F9, F9, ... to see it in action.

I'd like to be able to use the Spaces control-number or control-arrow keys from within the Exposé "all windows" display.

Example: You have 2 or more Spaces in use. You press F9 in Space #1 to see the Exposé display. At this point you can press F8 to go to the Spaces control screen, but you can't use control-2 or control-right-arrow to go to Space #2.
 
I want to use spaces, but I can't disable mouse buttons assigned to it

Hey,

I like the idea of using Leopard's spaces, but I use a mouse with additional back and forward buttons on it (MS intellimouse).

The problem I am having is simple, whenever I enable spaces it automatically assigns the back and forward buttons to switching spaces!

As you can imagine, this is highly impractical when browsing or when using Finder etc etc.

Is there a way to disable these buttons from calling spaces?

Thanks, Mez.
 
mezhopking said:
Hey,

I like the idea of using Leopard's spaces, but I use a mouse with additional back and forward buttons on it (MS intellimouse).

The problem I am having is simple, whenever I enable spaces it automatically assigns the back and forward buttons to switching spaces!

As you can imagine, this is highly impractical when browsing or when using Finder etc etc.

Is there a way to disable these buttons from calling spaces?

Thanks, Mez.
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have no idea.
maybe you could ask help at some forum of linux. space is really very old feature for linux.
 
shoelessone said:
I really like the idea of spaces, and I always have, but in general I just can't get myself to use them... It ends up being more hastle for me then they are worth.
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I thought this too. Now with 4 spaces in a square I'm using it all the time. General crap on 1 / Mail, Address Book, iCal on 2 / Photoshop on 3 / Word, Excel on 4.

mezhopking said:
Hey,

I like the idea of using Leopard's spaces, but I use a mouse with additional back and forward buttons on it (MS intellimouse).

The problem I am having is simple, whenever I enable spaces it automatically assigns the back and forward buttons to switching spaces!

Is there a way to disable these buttons from calling spaces?
.
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I have this mouse and do not have the problem you mentioned. Have you installed the MS Mouse drivers for OSX?
http://download.microsoft.com/downl...-9208-0edf308bd047/Microsoft-Mouse-X-d203.dmg
 
Coming from Linux and being used to having different windows that I could easily switch from I am glad that they decided to include that feature in Leopard. I haven't used it as much on my Mac as I used on the Linux machine but that is because Apple already made multi-tasking easy before spaces.
 
hnatow said:
So I like Spaces. I am thinking it will help me be more organized. I have set certain applications to be set to specific spaces. However, now when someone IMs me with iChat... Spaces automatically takes me to that space. It's kinda annoying when I am trying to work. It is only the initial IM but still... ANNOYING. Has anyone else experienced this?
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What I did was make iChat in every space. You can do that by going to spaces preferences, and assign applications to any specific space, or all spaces.
 
spaces is fine

Spaces is good
it is a copy of an old beta a company for mac was working on called virtua desktop, but it is way better
so no complaints on my end, but whoever made virtua desktops might be a little angry:mad:
 
Best use I've come up with so far for Spaces is running VMware Fusion in one space fullscreen and switching back and forth when I need to run something in Windows.

For this purpose it is flawless.
 
What I wished Apple would provide would be a means for is disabling the annoying animation when toggling between virtual desktops. I'm sure the new Core Animation layer in Leopard is cool for some stuff, but in this context it's just distracting and unnecessary.
 
leviticus said:
It sounds like you should try doing more with your computer then. Just a thought.

For people who actually use more than one or two things at once use and love spaces. It makes things much easier and faster to navigate.
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It's better for a laptop or single monitor machines.

Spaces on dual monitors isn't too pretty.
 
roker said:
I find spaces useless & annoying as well, so I have it disabled, frequently using :apple:+M instead. But I don't do very much with my 15" screen, so I can see it would be useful for someone who does...
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Have you tried hiding instead of minimizing?
 
Eidorian said:
Have you tried hiding instead of minimizing?
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Yes, but I prefer being able to see my minimized windows sitting in the dock, so that I can find the ones I want easily & quickly. Its an obsession of mine, but its also why I don't like the way your different windows just stack on top of each other in OS X, with no running commentary on multiple windows in applications. I thought :apple: was going to do something cool & useful in the way stacks work for managing multiple windows for applications but they haven't. IMO, stacks are pretty useless too, but have potential to be more than just show off graphics.
 
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