September 2004
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
16h 1m
English
Content preview from Mac OS X Power Hound, Second Edition
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Exposé
Exposé is a window-management tool built-in to Mac OS X 10.3. With the press of a key (or the click of a mouse), your open windows magically arrange themselves onscreen, making it easy to find just the one you want. Or they fly off to the edges of the screen, making it easy to work with files on your desktop. Exposé is one of those technologies that, after you use it a few times, make you wonder how you got along without it. Here are some hints to help you maximize this powerful feature.
Fun with the Floating Desktop Blob
The standard method of activating Exposé is to use the keyboard: F9 to shrink all onscreen windows; F10 to show the current application’s windows; and F11 to show the desktop. However, there’s an alternative, hidden method of using at least two of Exposé’s modes: the “Floating Exposé Blob.” As shown in Figure 4-5, the floating blob is a translucent gelatinous globule that hovers over all your open windows.
Figure 4-5. Top: Most of the time, the Floating Exposé Blob is partially transparent, so you can see what’s underneath it.
To activate the blob, you first must make a quick visit to Terminal, found in Applications → Utilities. Type the following line, then hit Enter:
defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-floater -bool true
For this change to take effect, you’ll need to quit and restart the Dock. You can do so in the Terminal by typing killall dock. As soon as the ...
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