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Exposé and Keyboard/Cursor shortcuts?
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Jul 10, 2003, 03:26 PM
 
I just wonder if one can switch between windows in Exposé with the cursor keys, which would save me the mouse.

Real men don't click...

It would also be nice to assign a letter to some window with e.g. Shift-A, so one could get back to that window by pressing A only.

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Jul 11, 2003, 12:24 AM
 
yes you can
     
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Jul 11, 2003, 03:58 AM
 
Hiphiphooray now this rocks!
     
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Jul 11, 2003, 05:06 AM
 
Originally posted by danengel:
Hiphiphooray now this rocks!
I've used the beta, it really rocks...........
     
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Jul 11, 2003, 05:21 AM
 
So I can definitely stop whining for multiple desktops.

But no shortcuts, right?
     
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Jul 11, 2003, 05:42 AM
 
Originally posted by danengel:
So I can definitely stop whining for multiple desktops.

But no shortcuts, right?
Shortcuts ?

You can press the F keys for the Finder windows, all apps of to hide the windows (show desktop)
     
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Jul 11, 2003, 05:58 AM
 
Shortcuts?
If you frequently switch between only a few windows, Exposé would allow you to assign a one-letter shortcut to any window. When pressing one of the F-keys to activate Exposé, you could assign a shortcut by pressing Shift-M for the Mail window, Shift-X for the Terminal and so on. The next time you active Exposé, you could simply press X and the Terminal would appear. Two keys would be sufficient to access any of your window (unless you have more than 26). Exposé would also show the shortcut-letter on top of each window so you don't have to remember too much.
     
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Jul 11, 2003, 06:06 AM
 
Originally posted by danengel:
If you frequently switch between only a few windows, Exposé would allow you to assign a one-letter shortcut to any window. When pressing one of the F-keys to activate Exposé, you could assign a shortcut by pressing Shift-M for the Mail window, Shift-X for the Terminal and so on. The next time you active Exposé, you could simply press X and the Terminal would appear. Two keys would be sufficient to access any of your window (unless you have more than 26). Exposé would also show the shortcut-letter on top of each window so you don't have to remember too much.
Interesting
Nothing like this here...

I use dragthing to do that
     
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Jul 11, 2003, 09:46 AM
 
How does Exposé work with dual monitors? I'm guessing that it just shrinks with both screens, but I would love to hear a confirmation.

The only other idea I could come up with would be to only shrink the screen that contains the cursor, but that would be silly.
     
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Jul 11, 2003, 12:05 PM
 
Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
How does Exposé work with dual monitors? I'm guessing that it just shrinks with both screens, but I would love to hear a confirmation.

The only other idea I could come up with would be to only shrink the screen that contains the cursor, but that would be silly.
I tested this on a coworkers system. It will shrink the windows from both monitors onto only the main window (The one with the menu bar and dock)
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