Questions tagged [mission-control]
Mission Control is Mac OS X 10.7's all-in-one solution for window management.
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Easy way to delete all virutal desktops in OS X
I don't know why but I have almost 200 virtual desktops and I'm looking for a way to just have one open.
Usually I hit F3 go to one and kill it. But to do it 200 times it's gonna take a lot of time!
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OSX El Capitan - Spaces bar - Show expanded window thumbnails/previews by default?
One of the new features of Mac OSX "El Capitan" (10.11) is that "the Spaces Bar has been shrunk, only displaying Desktop and window names by default—revealing your full desktop windows on mouseover."
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Spaces Control+Number stops working on Yosemite
I verified that the shortcuts are enabled (in Keyboard preference), but occasionally Control+1, Control+2, etc stop working on my computer. It works again when I reboot. I'm on Yosemite 10.10.3
What'...
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Restart Slow Mission Control in Yosemite
I'm getting some pretty high lag for Mission Control in Yosemite a couple hours after launch. I just want to restart the process but this no longer works:
killall Dock
How do I do it?
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Excel 2011 on OSX always opens on same monitor
I am running OSX and I have 3 monitors. In Mission Control, I have all 3 monitors to be their own Space. So each monitor has a toolbar at the top. Only one monitor has my dock on it (obviously). I ...
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Reserve leftmost space/desktop for terminal in OSX
In OSX, is there a way to make a particular application always occupy the left-most "space" when I make it fullscreen? I want to always have iTerm2 on the far left. Currently every time I hit ...
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Does any mouse really have 11 buttons? [closed]
I have been an OSX user for long, and today while using a scroll mouse I realized in Mission Control it gives us option to choose from Secondary Mouse Button to Mouse Button 11.
If I press the scroll ...
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How to completely disable Mac MissionControl
As shown in the screenshot I have removed all of the keyboard shortcuts to go into Mission Control. Somehow occasionally it still happens. Problem is it then freezes the MBPro for couple of tens of ...
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Mission Control covered by copy of background
This happens whenever I plug my MacBook into a thunderbolt display. Mission Control seems to be stuck like this until I restart. Does anyone know a fix? Has anyone at least seen this before?
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Is there a way to script setting up a space (mission control) in OSX?
It seems that Spaces was designed with assigning apps to a space in mind (see this KB article). Even apps like TotalSpaces are built with this model. This seems redundant to me as there is already ...
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How to open a window in current space using Mountain Lion?
Let's say I have Evernote open in space 2 and while in space 1, I would like to click in the dock or switch (using keyboard) to evernote and have it (evernote) open in space 1. Any idea?
Previously I ...
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How to show the menu bar on secondary desktops (spaces) on Mac OS X Lion?
I added additional Desktops (previously known as Spaces) via Mission Control on Lion. On each additional desktop the menu bar is missing. The menu bar is only visible/accessible from the primary ...
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Where are the "inner workings" of Exposé in OSX?
I need to alter the action of "App Exposé" in Lion so that it behaves like the old Exposé in Snow Leopard that showed all apps at once.
Does anyone know where I would find the files that control ...
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How to close full screen browser windows in mission control?
Let's say I'm browsing the web in chrome, or safari for that same matter.
I then make the window full screen by pressing control-command-F.
at that point, say I press command-N a few times to create ...
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Are there any Windows equivalents to Apple's Mission Control [closed]
I'm trying to find something for Windows 7 that simplifies working with multiple programs & files the same way that Mission Control does for the Mac. I frequently have 5 or 6 programs running and ...
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