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wow! expose continues to amaze me!

It seems like a lot of people have the expose features set to F9-F11 or whatever (the default). I don't know about you guys but the first thing I did in Panther was switch expose over to the left side of the keyboard- F1-F3, because that is where key commands and app switcher are done anyway. I wonder why Apple put them where they did. Seems like a bad place.
 
Also, if you hold down the shift key and minimize the window it will travel in show motion towards the dock :D

very nifty tricks to discover all over again.

Thanks
 
Another cool trick

I noticed this one also, if you hold the open apple, and it tab, it brings up all of the runnig programs so you can switch easy. Everyone probably knew this one but I think it's fun
 
Hmm, good job Hob. Great to see that people are still finding cool things happening in OS X. This is my new favorite thing, as I use Exposé quite a bit. This is much more exciting than when I tell people that Windows-D will show the desktop :p
 
nosen said:
Funny, this works if I press F9 or F10 :confused:

Cool trick either way!
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F9 shows all open windows and F10 only shows current app windows...but if you only have one apps windows open then it will look the same of course.
 
decksnap said:
It seems like a lot of people have the expose features set to F9-F11 or whatever (the default). I don't know about you guys but the first thing I did in Panther was switch expose over to the left side of the keyboard- F1-F3, because that is where key commands and app switcher are done anyway. I wonder why Apple put them where they did. Seems like a bad place.
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Educated Guess... Apple placed expose on F9-11 because on laptops the f1-f2 control screen brightness, f3-f5 control sound, f6 is num lock, and f7 is mirror displays...
 
rickvanr said:
Educated Guess... Apple placed expose on F9-11 because on laptops the f1-f2 control screen brightness, f3-f5 control sound, f6 is num lock, and f7 is mirror displays...
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Yeah, I use an apple laptop 99% of the time (I only used emacs briefly at my old school - they weren't as good as my pb, and the uni i'm at now has no macs...) and keys f1-f7 are filled with other features, and on the 15" most of the F keys have second functions...

Hob
 
hob said:
Yeah, I use an apple laptop 99% of the time (I only used emacs briefly at my old school - they weren't as good as my pb, and the uni i'm at now has no macs...) and keys f1-f7 are filled with other features, and on the 15" most of the F keys have second functions...

Hob
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exactly, I just wrote out whats on my 15' tibook..
 
joepunk said:
Also, if you hold down the shift key and minimize the window it will travel in show motion towards the dock :D

very nifty tricks to discover all over again.

Thanks
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Here's a little trick you can do with that. First, open the terminal and type in "killall Dock" Don't hit enter yet. Open a window and move it so that the terminal is active, but you can still get to the buttons on the window. Hold shift and click minimize. When you want to freeze the window, hit enter in the terminal. You can actually use the window too! The power of OS X!
 

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All UI (user interface) actions can make use of the holding Shift trick, BTW.

You can also use the arrow keys to determine what window is selected, then press enter. Voila! Exposé magic!

I have something to go brag about now...
 
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I know you guys all know this is possible, I just want to say hiw terribly handy it's become for me to have f8 f9 and f10 assigned to 3 sreencorners. It takes a bit getting used to, but you'll be mousing like speedy gonzales!
Plus it's a lot of fun seeing pc-people going nuts when they're on my mac, not understanding what the hell is going on with all thes windows flying around :D
 
arvidvdb said:
I know you guys all know this is possible, I just want to say hiw terribly handy it's become for me to have f8 f9 and f10 assigned to 3 sreencorners. It takes a bit getting used to, but you'll be mousing like speedy gonzales!
Plus it's a lot of fun seeing pc-people going nuts when they're on my mac, not understanding what the hell is going on with all thes windows flying around :D
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Haha yeah, I ended up having to make a guest account with all my trackpad enhancements and hot corners turned off just for that reason!!
 
arvidvdb said:
I know you guys all know this is possible, I just want to say hiw terribly handy it's become for me to have f8 f9 and f10 assigned to 3 sreencorners. It takes a bit getting used to, but you'll be mousing like speedy gonzales!
Plus it's a lot of fun seeing pc-people going nuts when they're on my mac, not understanding what the hell is going on with all thes windows flying around :D
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I only have one corner left after having set desktop to lower left, all windows to upper left and screensaver to upper right. Dashboard will be lower right, so Apple... better not be inventing any other nifty things... I am running out of corners :D
 
thecow said:
Here's a little trick you can do with that. First, open the terminal and type in "killall Dock" Don't hit enter yet. Open a window and move it so that the terminal is active, but you can still get to the buttons on the window. Hold shift and click minimize. When you want to freeze the window, hit enter in the terminal. You can actually use the window too! The power of OS X!
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The window is totally functional ! I'm writing this on a distorted safari window ( tabbed )
 
Pedro Estarque said:
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The window is totally functional ! I'm writing this on a distorted safari window ( tabbed )
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When I showed that to my pc using friend, he said that he was going to switch to OS X just to do that all day. He was just joking, though. He's a gamer and wouldn't switch because of the delayed and more expensive games for mac.
 
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