I can not imagine living in a globe without Exposé . Introduced as part of Panther three years ago , Exposé have you sort through the clutter of open window with just the tactual sensation of a push button . Want to see every windowpane you have unresolved at once ? Just press a fundamental — F9 by default — and Exposé shrivel all those window so that they fit on your screen , making it easy to find that e - mail or Web Thomas Nelson Page you ’re looking for . Another key — F10 by default — brings every windowpane in the current software to the front while grey out the rest , while a third key — F11 — make every window disappear to the side of your screen door for a clear view of your desktop .
That last Francis Scott Key is specially worthwhile to me . I have a rather unfortunate habit of drag in things — ikon files , document , audio clips , you name it — onto my desktop and leaving them there until such sentence as I require their serving . In the pre - Exposé days , that would have imply closing window or using menu program line to hide everything but my desktop ; now all I do is push F11 . It ’s become such a part of my work flow that when I find myself working on emergency backup iBook power by OS X 10.2 at home , I ’ll abstractedly constrict F11 and then become very irritated with the United States Department of State of the world when nothing actually happens .
Not everyone is an Exposé devotee , however — take Macworld.com forum member HillsDavid who would prefer to turn the feature off . Easy enough to do — just go to the Dashboard & Exposé panel of your System Preferences . Once there you may assign new key value for each of the three Exposé style I cite above as well spark off concealment corners to perform each Exposé function when you move your pointer to the appropriate corner . To deactivate any Exposé lineament , just use the pearl - down menu to select the minus ( - ) symbol .
Incidentally , this is the same Preferences panel where you’re able to portion a new function key to touch off Dashboard — or disable that OS X 10.4 characteristic entirely . Just as with Exposé , select the bead down carte du jour next to Dashboard and set it to the negative symbolization .
Reader DataRecoveryGuru offer another room to turn off Dashboard , if you ’re a more Terminal - savvy user . Just open Terminal in your Applications folder and typecast this command :
Hit getting even and type this command :
Once you come to retort , Dashboard will be as drained as Dillinger . If you ever want to revive it , follow the advice at thismacosxhints.com tipand just vary the
