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Questions tagged [mission-control]

Mission Control is Mac OS X 10.7's all-in-one solution for window management.

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How do you disable the window switch animation when switching spaces with Mission Control?

In Snow Leopard, I had the window switch animation disabled when I quick-key between spaces. Now that it's Mission Control in Lion, there's a long animation during which all my desktop icons disappear and I can't use anything. I'd really like to…
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How to make Mission Control keyboard friendly?

In Snow Leopard, when you Expose, you can navigate to each window by using the keyboard arrow keys. With Lion, this is not possible anymore. Does anyone know how to make the arrow keys work in Mission Control?
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How to move Desktop from one display to another display in Mac OSX El Capitan

I am using a MBP with OSX El Capitan. If I need to move a window from one Desktop space to another desktop space, I just need to hold the title bar and press Ctrl + 2 to move the selected window to Desktop space 2. For presentation purpose, I would…
Chetan Sachdev
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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 these actions? I assumed the Dock since the Exposé…
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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." Is there any way to revert back to showing the…
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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 an app switcher (Cmd-Tab) that lets you switch…
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Does any mouse really have 11 buttons?

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 wheel then it is the 3rd button of the mouse. I…
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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 could do it by just pressing CMD before clicking…
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OS X Lion Mission Control - Why can't I organize my spaces the way I want to?

I just updated to Lion today and found at about the new Mission Control. I like it a lot (maybe because I'm pretty new to OS X and didn't now about spaces before, because I actually read a lot of complaints about the grid view that's gone), and I…
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Easy way to delete all virtual 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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Disable switching window on different desktop

I want to prevent switching window on other desktop in this case: Open app A background and app B foreground on desktop 2 Switch to desktop 1 Switch to another window of app A on desktop 1 Switch to desktop 2 There is a first window of app A…
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MacOS Mission Control Shortcuts not working with Chrome Remote Desktop

Note: Somewhat related to Chrome Remote Desktop Keyboard ShortCut Needed The Problem I found using the Chrome Remote Desktop that the Ctrl key is not forwarded or recognized on the Mac as Mission Control Commands. Workaround Attempt So I started…
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'Show Desktop' Mission Control/Expose Not Functioning [OSX 10.7 Lion]

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 intended. F10 seems to not do anything. I thought…
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how to merge two full screen chrome tabs in mac OS?

Looks like nobody ever asked this but this might be pretty useful for the pro user to figure out a good way to handle it. I'm working with full screen windows all the time, to take full advantage of the gestures to easily navigate between…
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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's strange is I can still switch spaces via…
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