Mac OS X Lion: Mission Control & Spaces

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• Mac
• OS
• Lion
• Mission
• Control
• Spaces
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[johnpipi2]

mission control sucks you can't hit a single key and see all apps on all spaces at once!

[i8yoursandwich]

@AndySofaProductions like that was not you on sherman street 3 weeks ago? lmao!

[sshlyk]

If they introduce something new, at least keep old functionality. The new spaces are useless for me and so confusing.

[rezanaghibi]

you're a newb -- mission control for the lawsssssss. spaces = crazy windows everywhere? don't you mean neatly arranged columns and rows of virtual desktops where you can make the most of multi tasking? how much seat time have you had with the previous OS X?

[HakanOzerVEVO]

I hate os x lion xD

[TietjenUK]

Thanks for the very clear vid, you saved me a lot of time hunting for how it's done.

[walter0bz]

@Fobeon -

i used hot corner activation+expose swipe, the multitouch trackpad worked really well generally.

if i could add i would make 1st downswipe do 'expose', 2nd 'spaces+expose', (3rd toggles expose off, and toggles whether the next swipe goes into spaces or expose first). so it's like "zoom out","zoom out some more if you didn't find what you were after."

hotkey improvement, similarly i'd make single/double press f3 do that. And keep cur window highlighted for cursor key selection ..

[walter0bz]

@Fobeon -

one change would fix it -make the stupid app bundle fill the whole screen when there's only one app, and auto-spread it. there is no benefit to collecting the windows together when your screen is already full of them with overlap. you pressed the gesture because you wanted to see more. I think Gnome Shell has it right (expose+desktop thumbnails), but they needed to show the workspaces vertically to avoid irritating apple I suspect.

[walter0bz]

@Fobeon - I only used 4, it's not the number of spaces that made it for me but the '2-levels of zoom'. simply leaving many windows open is more comfortable than any other tab or minimizing management scheme. having 4 big workspaces and then just shuffling a few most recent active source code pages onto one was perfect.. fast and intuitive. It allowed 13" mbp to punch above its weight in screenspace for coding ,which i usually need 2 screens for.. with multitouch it was the best environment

[Fobeon]

I guess Mission Control is actually an improvment just if you were used to have a few spaces, let's say no more than 4, 6 tops. I had 9. I hate it, it's really messing with the way I'm used to interact with my mac.

[Fobeon]

@walter0bz I really agree. I used to have 9 spaces and surf them via alt+arrows. Like safari was in space 5 (center), mail in 8 (center down) and iTunes in space 2 (upper center), i've been using it this way for years. All spaces in a row just made it idiotic. And I had to get leopard since my MBP was stolen and I got a MBA. And that supposedly smart function of moving spaces you're using all toghter just made it more idiotic

[walter0bz]

"defintely improving the way expose works" ONLY FOR IDIOTS WHO NEVER GOT THE MOST OUT OF EXPOSE AND SPACES!!!! it's crap.