Because I desire some of the jot that I covered in my recentMacworld telecasting web log on Leopardto be include in our searchable archive , here ’s another text variation of a tip from that TV . ( Perhaps Google will eventually figure out how to parse audio from television on the fly and create a searchable index finger of video cognitive content … but we ’re not quite there yet . )
Today ’s tip deals with Spaces , and as with the last tip I cribbed from the video , I ’m drop in a footling additional tidbit in event you already watched the video .
If you useSpaces , you get laid that the F8 keystone is somewhat like Exposé for Spaces . ( Though you’re able to actually use Exposé within Spaces ’ F8 view style . That ’s not the extra tip — still , try it out . Just press F9 after pressing F8 ) .
When you entreat F8 , you get an overview of every space , shew all undetermined windows in all space . From here , you jazz you could move a windowpane from one space to another by but dragging it there . But what if you want to moveallwindows of a given covering to another space ? Sure , you’re able to drag in them all one - by - one , but that ’s a pain . or else , hold in down the Shift winder ( the Command fundamental works , too ) before you click - and - hold on a window . With the Shift key held down , when you drag one windowpane of a program , you ’ll hale all the windows of that course of study .
you may also expend this trick to move just one windowpane to the accurate same physical position in a new blank . Say you ’ve get a Finder window out-of-doors , and it ’s maybe 200 pixels down and the right way from the Apple menu . you could move this window into another quad , lay at that exact same office . Start draw the window , then press and hold Shift before you drop the windowpane into its novel blank . When you deteriorate the windowpane , it will move into the same post it used in the anterior blank space .
OK , now for the fillip Spaces suggest . Like both Exposé and Dashboard , Spaces can be used in what I call “ at a glance ” modality . Instead of just rapidly pressing and release F8 , press andholdF8 . While still arrest F8 , do whatever it is you need to do in quad , then loose F8 . When you do , you ’ll be taken immediately back to the Finder , in whichever blank was dynamic ( drab blue colouring material ) when you released F8 . This saves one keystroke , and may be preferred for those time when you just have one or two little things to do in Spaces .
If you have n’t adjudicate this yet with Exposé and Dashboard , give it a try there , too , as it ’s really quite utilitarian . I peculiarly like it for Dashboard , when I just want to see the late atmospheric condition , current fund quotation , and so away . Just press - hold - view - departure , and you ’re decent back where you originate .
