In Mac OS X Lion, Mission Control unifies Spaces and Exposé. Along with this unification comes changes to how Spaces and Exposé work. In this video, I’ll show you the changes with Mission Control and how to use them to your benefit.
Michael Steeber is a student who is obsessed with everything Apple. He enjoys making videos and runs the MSComputerVideos YouTube channel in his free time. You can follow him on Twitter as well.
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I’ve never found much use for Expose, that is until I started developing. Now it’s a MUST HAVE!
-Chris
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I have 2 cool tips that I discovered about Mission Control:
1 – on mission control, mouse over a program that has a bunch of windows and scroll up to Mission Control increase their sizes, its useful to have a better view of windows of that application
2 – you can mouse over an window on expose and press space to have a quicklook of that window, it will show that window in bigger size directly on Mission Control
Neat!
I’d like to know how to use it in a more functional way. Like, can you setup more efficient workflows with the spaces? I”d love to see some examples of that because I’m having a hard time figuring that out.
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Here are a few of my favorite Mission Control tips.
You can swipe screens while in Mission Control.You can assign apps to one screen or all screens from the dock.
I noticed in your video that you were moving the system preferences between two different spaces by entering mission control when you were changing the backgrounds. I just had a quick tip that I discovered the first day of launch. I like the idea of changing the background for each desktop, but entering mission control to move app windows between desktops kinda sucks. If you drag a window to the edge of the screen toward the desktop you want to move it to, the app window will automatically switch to the next desktop, just like if you were arranging apps on your iPad, or iPhone. This is a lot easier than entering mission control, especially when you like new backgrounds often, or like safari windows in separate desktops and know there is nothing in the adjacent desktop. Hope this is helpful!
Spreading fingers also works instead of scrolling up; the quick look tip is great!
I just found this today.. if you do the App Expose gesture you will be able to see all the windows for the app you are using.. but while doing that, try move your mouse to the dock and click any other icon, if you click on already open app it will show you the open windows for the apps but if you click on a close app, it will show you the recently open documents for that app. But it didn’t work for all the app, I try it on Keynotes and it show me the recent docs I work with it.
Anyway, I am not sure if this is new feature with lion or not lol… since i am new to Mac.
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Great, the 2-finger tips on the dock icon is cool ;-)
Now, if only there is a way to move an app from Desktop-1 to Desktop-2 while the main desktop in use is Desktop-6 !!!
In Mission Control there’s nothing called a “SPACE”! They’re called “DESKTOPS”. The fact that Apple has a setting referring to SPACES is just plain stupid.
I’m not a fan of how they integrated the TrackPad and the Magic Mouse. You touched on it slightly in the video when you said it is 3 fingers on the TrackPad and 2 fingers on the Magic Mouse. I think they really missed the boat on the User experience here. There are SOOOOO many gestures to learn in Lion and you have to learn them twice, once on the TrackPad and once on the Mighty Mouse.