Mission Control brings together Exposé, Dashboard, Spaces, and full-screen apps to give you one place to see and navigate everything running on your Mac.
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Dragging a window to a space doesn't work the first time
In Mountain Lion (at least, maybe elsewhere too):
Enter Mission Control to see all windows, and all spaces.
Drag a window or a stack of windows to a space
For me, the first attempt at this fails ...
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Sorting through windows that are grouped together
I have a number of open windows that belong to the same program (preview). I would like to easily and quickly flick between these open windows, but I have found this frustratingly difficult to do ...
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'Show Desktop' Mission Control/Expose Not Functioning
I have recently upgraded to OS X Lion. I have mapped the keys via Mission Control preFpane as follows: F9 is 'Mission Control', F10 is 'Show Desktop'. F11 is 'Application Windows'
F9 and F11 works as ...
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Remove shift key augmentation for Mission Control animation
I recently upgraded to Mountain Lion and all of a sudden my key bindings for Sublime Text 2 multi-selection editing are no longer working. Specifically, I had key bindings set up for ...
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Automatically change OS X desktop background for all desktops + monitors?
Summary. Automation changes desktop background for all (virtual) desktops, but no all monitors. How to do it for all monitors?
Details.
This blog entry discusses how to automatically change ...
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Full-screen apps and desktop arrangements
The picture above is a screenshot from Mission Control showing the desktop and full-screen apps. The problem is that I want a different arrangement. I want the order to be Safari-Desktop-iTunes. I ...
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Can't assign some apps to a desktop .. what's wrong?
Usually, when I right-click on an app in the dock, I can assign it to a specific desktop/space. However, there are some apps where I don't have this option. (I've noticed it for CrashPlan and ...
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Single desktop image for all desktops
I upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion. Afterward when I would set a Desktop picture (either through System Preferences or iPhoto) it was applied to all desktops.
Yesterday I control clicked the ...
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Spaces (Mission Control) jumps to a space but won't stay there
I have two spaces. When I try to jump from the left space to the right one using the swipe gesture, the right space shows briefly but then the screen immediately jumps back to the left.
As a result, ...
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Dock/Expose not working, Desktop stuck with gray background (Lion)
I am running Mac OS X 10.7.5 and the Dock/Mission Control/Desktop functionality is totally broken. My dock is not present after startup so I have to start all applications from Spotlight. I can't ...
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How can I stop by External Display from switching “Spaces”
Somehow I enabled my mac to have these "spaces" and I always have a second "desktop" - I don't know how to get rid of it.
However, either when no apps are open or if there is a fullscreen app, I do ...
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Mission Control view programme icons missing. How can I get them back?
When you hit F3 on the keyboard, Mission Control is opening, displaying all active windows in a miniaturized version neatly ordererd. When my Mac OSX 10.8 was newly installed some month ago, there ...
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Mac app pop up durring instlaation from app store?
I am running mountain lion on mid 2009 macbook pro. I used to see an animation of app popping out of apple mac store and coming to the dock, then they changed pop up destination to mission control. ...
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Mission Control occasionally freezing computer and garbling screen content
Every so often (usually when I have a ton of windows open) I trigger mission control and I get this:
I have to do a complete restart of the computer in order to resume. This happened to me on ...
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What will cause spaces to rearrange in Lion?
I'm having a hard time figuring out what constitutes as "recent use" in Lion that will cause spaces to rearrange(I have the "automatically rearrange spaces based on recent use" box checked). I use ...
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Is there a keyboard shortcut to jump directly to a particular full screen app in Lion?
When you full screen an application in Lion, it "flies out" of the desktop space it started in, and winds up at the end of the spaces list (assuming you have turned off auto-arranging).
As a result ...
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Animations are choppy and jerky after a day (Mountain Lion)
After my 13" MacBook Pro (2010) has been on/sleeping for a day, the changing desktop animation and mission control gets choppy. Only a reboot fixes this problem and it stays good for several hours. ...
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How to prevent dock auto-hiding setting from changing?
I prefer to keep the dock "auto-hiding" setting on so that the dock is always hidden unless I mouse over it. I am aware of both the setting in "dock preferences" and the keyboard shortcut (⌥⌘D).
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Assign app to desktop only when secondary display hooked up
So, I've been looking for a way to set up an application in Mountain Lion to be assigned to a particular desktop only when a secondary display is connected.
As a web developer, my web browser is my ...
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Stop Parallels from auto-focusing new windows
I run Windows under Parallels to be able to run a regression test suite, which repeatedly starts a new Windows application window.
The problem is that each time a new window pops up, Mountain Lion's ...
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Show desktop keyboard shortcut doesn't work
I have F5 key bound to the show desktop shortcut in keyboard shortcuts. However when I press F5 on the keyboard (with fn on the built in keyboard, or with/without fn on the Apple wireless keyboard), ...
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How to disable Mission Control shortcut?
I often use IDE's for editing and the shortcut for mission control interferes with my shortcuts within aptana and or other editors.
Is there a way to disable the apple shortcut (control+▲) for osx ...
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Switching between windows of one application in multiple spaces
I know you can use command + ` to switch between windows in one program in one space.
But this is only in the one space, if you have other windows from the same App in different spaces ... it won't ...
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where can i remove desktop in mission control?
In mission control, I can add a desktop by pushing the button on the top right.
How do i remove a desktop?
Or where in my system preferences do i look to do this?
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Applescript to turn off Mission Control in OS X 10.7
I found most of the below on https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3046230?start=0&tstart=0, but I believe it relates to OSX10.6 (or earlier) given that Mission control seems to have replaced ...
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“Group windows by application” in Lion (10.7)
In the pre-Lion Expose, the windows weren't grouped by application like they were in Lion's updated Expose, Mission Control (which angered some). In Mountain Lion (10.8), Apple added a "Group windows ...
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How do I avoid inadvertently switching workspaces?
I keep accidentally dragging windows into other workspaces on my Macbook Air running OS X Lion.
Can I disable dragging into other workspaces or make doing so more difficult?
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How to delete Desktop 1 from Mission Control
So apparently my wallpaper is stuck and acting like a layer on top of everything else. For example, when I initiate Mission Control, the wallpaper covers the other screen previews. However I can ...
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How can I have Mission control, but just for one application?
I have tons of windows open, and would like Mission control to only show the windows for one application.
How can I do that?
Note: I know that I can "scroll up" on the bundled windows for a ...
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Multi-Monitor Mac — Possible to keep one screen static in Mission Control?
I have a rMBP and a Thunderbolt display, and I love using both displays simultaneously. I also use Mission Control to have several separate work spaces.
What I would love is for a way to have my ...
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Assign profiles for switching between single display and multiple displays
Is there a way to assign "profiles" for placing applications in appropriate DISPLAYs and DESKTOPs when switching from a single display to multiple displays, and vice versa?
If you have 5 desktops, ...
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Hot Corners for Mission Control stop working
I set the upper right corner of the screen as a Hot Corner to activate Mission Control. However, some time after setting it, the Hot Corner stops working. Keyboard shortcuts still work.
Going back ...
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App or Script to Move a Window Between Desktops With Only a Keyboard Shortcut?
I need a way to move a window between desktops in Lion/Mountain Lion with a keyboard shortcut only (i.e. no mouse involvement). From this similar question, I'm aware that it can be done by holding ...
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Right click on Dock icons in Mission Control
When I right click on an icon in the Dock, I get a menu as usual (New Window, Options, Quit, etc.). When I right click an an icon in the Dock in Mission Control nothing happens.
How can I enable the ...
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Exposé style tab management in Safari 6
How can one get Exposé-like tab view in Safari 6? I often get dozens of tabs open between several windows, and need to find one needle in that haystack.
Near solutions that don't quite cut it:
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How to reset the MissionControl/Expose/Spaces settings to defaults on Lion?
I set Mission Control to "Show Application Windows" (Expose) with a mouse button or hot corner. Great, it shows all of the windows of the current foreground app across all spaces/desktops.
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How to disable the most recently used items in App Exposé on Lion?
When using App Exposé on Lion ( Control-↓ by default), the lower part of the screen above the dock is reserved for minimized windows. A new feature of at least TextEdit in Lion is that it also ...
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Using Mission Control to switch between Safari and a full-screen Keynote presentation
I'm on a MacBook Pro running Lion. During a Keynote presentation that's running in full screen, I'd like to be able to switch to a different desktop with the four-finger-swipe gesture to demonstrate a ...
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What is causing a black screen while switching spaces on Mountain Lion?
On Lion I used to see the next space wallpaper while pressing Control + → to switch desktops. But on Mountain Lion I see a Black Screen until the transition is complete. Is it just me who is facing ...
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How to choose a application without using the mouse in Lion Mission Control?
While using Mission Control and pressing Control ⌃+↑, I get the tiled view of all the applications in that particular desktop. Is there a keyboard shortcut to choose an application in this view?
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Switch windows in Mission control with the keyboard [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to choose a application without using the mouse in Lion Mission Control?
Is there any way so switch between windows in Mission Control without using the mouse?
In ...
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spaces and dual monitor: separate setup for each monitor?
I have two monitors and I would like to handle the virtual spaces separately on each. I.e. changing the space on one monitor shouldn't change the space on the other. (I wonder why this isn't even the ...
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Lion/Mountain Lion Mission Control used with CTRL+# (10.6 Spaces-like)
Is there a way to still use Control+# (e.g. Control+1, Control+2, ...) to switch to a particular Desktop? In Spaces' parlance: to a particular Space? I have difficulties swiping the trackpad and could ...
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Speed up the transition between spaces?
Is it possible to speed up the transition between spaces? I often open my applications in full screen mode but I would like the transition to be a bit faster, is there a way to speed this up (i.e. ...
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Trackbar Gesture for Mission Control / Spaces: Two fingers + click
Up until Snow Leopard I was using a simple shortcut to navigate through Spaces (Desktops). Two fingers plus click would present Spaces and allow me to select desktop and/or window effortlessly. So my ...
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Mission Control bug on Mountain Lion: Dragging Windows to Desktops Fails Regularly
When I activate Mission Control and try to drag drag, say, two windows to another desktop, the first drag works fine. I can drag the window to the other desktop's thumbnail, which darkens, and then ...
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Can I show the Mission Control desktop number in the menu bar?
Spaces used to show the space number in the menu bar; I would glance at it regularly to see which space I was in (1, 2, 3, etc).
How do I get Mission Control to display the current desktop in the ...
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Is It Possible to Interact With the Windows in Mission Control?
Is it possible to use the windows shown in Mission Control?
For example, let's say I have Safari window opened and I want to scroll the page up/down while in Mission Control - is that possible?
If ...
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How to use LaunchPad and Mission Control on Mountain Lion with an external keyboard
I am using an external (generic) keyboard.
I just switched from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion.
On Snow Leopard, I could pull up Expose by pressing F2 on my external keyboard, but now I can't.
Is ...
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AdobePDFViewerNPAPI shows up in Mission Control
When I open a PDF document in Safari and then go into Mission control, I see a window with
different kinds of artifacts (e.g. horizontal black lines on a white background) and it's titled ...
