Spaces were renamed Desktops and brought together with Exposé and Dashboard as Mission Control with the release of Mac OSX 10.7 Lion.
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How can I disable animation when switching desktops in Lion?
I would very much like to disable the sliding animation that occurs when switching desktops via ctrl+→/← or ctrl+[number] in Lion. This was previously accomplished in previous versions ...
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Is it possible to reorder spaces in Lion?
I would expect 'Mission Control' to allow me to drag spaces in a certain order (with the exception of the 'Dashboard' space), but this does not seem like an option.
This would be especially useful ...
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Why do full-screen applications change their order in Mission Control?
How are fullscreen apps organised? This is usually my workflow:
Dashboard / Desktop / Safari / Pages
I sometimes go to Pages and type some things and go back to Safari, and then I find that it ...
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How can I stop spaces from switching automatically?
I will often use Spaces on Mac OS X 10.5 to switch to another space when a program is busy / unresponsive. Very often, without warning or apparent reason, Spaces will switch back to the first space ...
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How can I rename desktops in Mission Control?
The default new desktop space is named 'Desktop 1'. If you create a new one, it is named 'Desktop 2'. Is there a way to change those default names to something more meaningful?
Additionally, it looks ...
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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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Can Spaces be configured by project, rather than by application?
Spaces seems to give you a choice of having a given software application open in a single space or in all spaces. Is there a way to configure Spaces to so that each space is devoted to a particular ...
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Custom keyboard shortcuts to change active Spaces desktop
I'm a mostly Unix user that are starting to user OS X for iPhone development. Since I won't (and can't) quit my Linux environment I'm trying out the 'Spaces' functionallity for virtual desktops. But ...
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Automatically restore my window locations when I reconnect my external monitor? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I make windows save their position on screen after re-attaching a display?
I'll often move around in the course of a work day, from my basement office where I ...
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How to move a window to another space without using the mouse?
I use spaces for having multiple desktops, but often need to move a program from one space to another.
I am aware of the various ways to do that with a mouse:
Click window drag to edge
F8 to show ...
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restart hot corners
On Snow Leopard (latest version, but it's been happening for a while), I have the top right corner set to show Spaces, and the bottom right to show the Desktop. Occasionally, often enough to be ...
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Opening a new Terminal window when it's running on another desktop
I open a lot of terminal windows. I also make use good use of tabs & multiple desktops.
Normally I launch Terminal.app with Spotlight. But if Terminal is already running on another desktop, it ...
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How do I change the default Space for an app in Mission Control?
Under Snow Leopard and Spaces you could define which Space an app should automatically launch in, including the ability to indicate that it should be visible in every space.
My apps are respecting ...
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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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Mountain Lion desktop order
On Mountain Lion, I have three desktops. What I find is that the sequential left to right order of these desktops keeps changing. Is it doing something based on usage ? and how can I disable this ?
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Lion : Assigning a fullscreen app to a space
With SnowLeopard, I was using spaces, with two spaces. On the second space, I was running a fullscreen application.
I created a shortcut to switch from my first space to the second space : Cmd+1 goes ...
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How Do I Change The Desktop Order in Mission Control? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to reorder spaces in Lion?
Currently, it doesn't seem possible to just drag and drop the desktops to change their order.
Is there any other way of doing ...
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I can't save my system preferences
I can't save my dock and spaces setting. Every time I set them (eg. disable spaces), after I reboot/re-login to the system, the dock and spaces settings will revert back to the previous status. How ...
