Pros and cons of Mission Control, as well as some tips for users
Tips Makradar / / December 19, 2019
One of the main features Mac OS X Lion - this is Mission Control. In fact, Mission Control is a new way to work with windows and applications. Previously, we used Exposé, Dashboard, and virtual desktops, it is now all combined in a single application. Simply put, Mission Control allows you to instantly see all open programs, open windows and documents.
How to work with the Mission Control
Start Mission Control can be one of several ways:
- By clicking on the appropriate icon in the Dock
- By pressing the button on the keyboard F3 (which used to be responsible for Exposé)
- a gesture - it is necessary to hold three fingers from the bottom up (can be configured to four)
- Adjust the angles on the trackpad.
- If you have a Magic Mouse, then click twice on the surface of the mouse.
Running Mission Control, at the top of the screen you will see the Dashboard, which contains all your widgets, virtual desktops (spaces), applications running in full-screen mode. The following program will be displayed with the windows open.
Mission Control joined Exposé, Spaces, Dashboard
You, by the way, can cause separately Exposé application. Let's say you open TextEdit. If you spend four fingers from top to bottom, you will see a window opened in the TextEdit, as well as a list of documents that are edited before:
Application Window mode shows not only the open windows, but the list of documents that were edited before
Virtual desktops appeared in OS X Leopard. To date, the only popular operating system that does not support them natively - is Windows. Often a separate desktop OS X users tolerate Windows (which is running in a virtual machine). Another common case - a division of tasks on the desktop. For example, in one Spacey have collected "razvlekalovka» (Twitter, any games, the IM-clients), on the other - directly work (TextMate, Kaleidoscope, FTP), - the third study (Preview, Dictionary.app, TextEdit).
To add a new desktop, start the Mission Control, move the cursor to the upper right corner. When you see a fragment of the new table, click on it. Now you have a new desktop. It should be added to the application. You can do this in several ways. Firstly, in Mission Control, you can drag any application on the new desktop. The second way more interesting. Click the newly created desktop, run the application that would like to assign to them. Then call in the dock in the application context menu and select "Options → assign it to the desktop."
Switch between desktops can be created through Mission Control or using gestures to hold four fingers from left to right or right to left.
To remove unwanted desktop, start the Mission Control, move the cursor over it, the cross appears. Click on the cross.
Some problems
To say that the new Mission Control is ideal, it is impossible. Very advanced and demanding users, who previously had a habit 5-9 start desktops, find a new way to work with them uncomfortable. There are complaints that the Mission Control shows minimized windows (minimized). Desk can not give names. They are represented as' Desk 1 "," 2 Desk ',' Desk 3 ", etc. This is to some extent complicates the navigation between them.
A few tips
1. Make it easier to identify the desktops in Mission Control, set for each of them your wallpaper. To do this, start the Mission Control, go to one of the desktops by clicking on it. Then, run the utility System Preferences, go to the "Desktop & Screen Saver." There you will be able to change the wallpaper. This procedure will be repeated for each of the desktops.
Each desktop can have its own wallpaper.
2. To quickly switch between desktops using hotkeys. Customize them here: System Preferences → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts.
3. If you want to see the open windows one after the other, without leaving the Mission Control, use a hot key: `(on the keyboard of my MacBook it is located below the button esc).
4. If you do not use widgets, the Dashboard can be removed from Mission Control. To do this, visit: System Preferences → Mission Control and remove the checkbox "Show Dashboard as a prostratstvo".
Do you know some interesting techniques for working with Mission Control? You can share tips on using virtual desktops? Tell us about it and readers in the comments.