[cla]

Out of curiosity...

Do you use function keys or screen corners to activate Exposé?
Different corners for application windows and desktop?
Has anyone tried dedicating a mouse button (you don't want to try this on the Apple 1-button mouse...) to activate it?

Has anyone found any other interesting ways to trigger expose (such as voice commands)?

[Luca Rescigno]

The Logitech MX700 mouse has a lot of extra mouse buttons so I prefer setting each one to one of the Exposé functions.

[Goldfinger]

My MX300 mouse has this little button in the middle that normally serves as an app switch button. I programmed this as the F9 button (all windows). I ALWAYS find myself trying to press that button when I'm on a PC or someone else's Mac but it never works! The scroller is, if clicked on, the same as F10 but I don't use it all that much. The show desktop mode is triggered by going in the lower left corner of my screen.

[Dale Sorel]

Dedicated mouse buttons AND a screen corner

[drive-thru]

F9, F10, F11

[Sage]

All windows assigned to my Logitech MX500's app switching button.
Application windows assigned to top-right corner (the other three are taken up by CornerClick – I use it to control iTunes).
Desktop is still at F11, because I don't need it often enough to let it take up one of my precious buttons (or corners).

[lavar78]

I use the standard function keys, but I also have two dedicated mouse buttons for F9 and F10.

[monkeybrain]

I use screen corners (the top two, don't bother with only show app windows, never have that many open windows within a single app). But use function keys sometimes too.

So frustrating on Windows and other Macs without the same setup!

[MrForgetable]

Top right corner for minimize all windows.

F11 is minimize all windows.
F12 is entire desktop
fn is minimize this app.

My scroll wheel is F12, which if I hold down long enough, will also eject my CD, and do the entire desktop if I give it one short click.

My Appswitcher button (MX500) is F11, which is minimize all windows.

[rstevens]

F1, F2, F3 + extra mouse button for all windows.

[JKT]

Primarily the function keys, but sometimes hot corners. I used to use hot corners all the time when I was using a desktop, but it isn't as easy for me to do with a trackpad.

[mdc]

due to the fact that my powerbook keyboard has f9 and f10 used for the backlight i hardly ever use the function keys.

top right corner - desktop
bottom right - all windows
bottom left - app windows

[Jay Condon]

I have both "show desktop" and "show all windows" programmed into butler. I use my upper left screen corner, left clicking shows the desktop, right clicking shows all windows. This way I get two options for one screen corner, and by having to "click" to activate, I don't accidently expose things when I'm going for the apple menu.

[spiky_dog]

Originally posted by rstevens:
F1, F2, F3 + extra mouse button for all windows.

f1-f3 for me as well. f5 on up are reserved for my photoshop actions . right mouse button is mapped to page down in most apps, left to page up or back one page in the browser history as appropriate.

[GORDYmac]

I use that scroll wheel mouse button--which serves no purpose--to activate Expose. I mouse to the lower corner to view the Desktop.

[cpac]

corner (upper right) for all windows, F keys for the others (mostly I only use the "show desktop" one)

[theJoKell]

So am I weird for not using exposé?

[Angus_D]

Poll: Poll: Poll: Poll?

[SSharon]

bottom right corner for f11 on both my desktop and ibook and on just the ibook the lower left corner for f9.

[cpac]

Originally posted by theJoKell:
So am I weird for not using exposé?

not necessarily - we all got along without it until Panther came out.

That said, if you start using it, you'll find it's really handy in many situations.

[theJoKell]

Originally posted by cpac:
not necessarily - we all got along without it until Panther came out.

That said, if you start using it, you'll find it's really handy in many situations.

I did use it for a while when I first got Panther. I just never found it all that useful for me.

[cpac]

Originally posted by theJoKell:
I did use it for a while when I first got Panther. I just never found it all that useful for me.

The first time I found it useful was when dragging album artwork out of a browser (nearly full screen) into iTunes (hidden by browser).

I'd click and drag the artwork, go to an expose corner, hover over the now visible iTunes window, wait for it to become big, and then drop the artwork in the little space.

[cybergoober]

Originally posted by GORDYmac:
I use that scroll wheel mouse button--which serves no purpose--to activate Expose. I mouse to the lower corner to view the Desktop.

Hmm. I use that button to open links in a new tab...

[chris v]

F13, 14 & 15. I like exposé to have its own little zone there above the "useless" keys. Also, three of the buttons on my Kensington track ball.

[tomasboudr]

on laptops (especially my 12 inch) its uber usefull. with a track pad the screen corner is even more useful. I use the top right croner myself for the all programs expose function.

-Tom

[Apfhex]

On my MX500 I have the "Cruise up" button as All Windows (F9), "Cruise Down" as Application Windows (F10), and the bottom right corner of my screen is Desktop (F11).

When 10.4 comes out I'll probably make the "Quick Switch" button on my mouse activate Dashboard (it's currently set to cmd ~).

[xi_hyperon]

Mouse buttons and corners, but I probably use the upper left corner the most to view all windows. Whenever I'm switching between apps, I'll throw the mouse in the upper left and then select another window that way. Very quick and handy - the action is second-nature to me now.

The only bad thing is when I have to use the old PC, I'll throw the mouse into the corner... and of course nothing happens.

[SMacTech]

Originally posted by GORDYmac:
I use that scroll wheel mouse button--which serves no purpose--to activate Expose. I mouse to the lower corner to view the Desktop.

It serves a great purpose for me, which is to open a link in a new tab. I couldn't live without it now. Oh, and scrolling too.

[nooon]

Had to remap Exposé All Windows to F11 and Exposé Desktop to F12, since F1 to F10 is taken by all sorts of other stuff on my PB.
Using Fn is to hard.

[Dr.Michael]

alt-click, middle and right for desktop and windows

[intake]

Originally posted by nooon:
Had to remap Exposé All Windows to F11 and Exposé Desktop to F12, since F1 to F10 is taken by all sorts of other stuff on my PB.
Using Fn is to hard.

I did the opposite approach and remapped all of the system function keys to activate only when holding down the Fn key. This allows me to freely use the regular expose keys (plus Dashboard on F12 when I'm in Tiger).

What sucks is that while you can use modifier keys to change the Exposé activation behavior, if you have a powerbook/ibook, the system function keys STILL override and activate. SO Command-Shift F9 would STILL turn down my keyboard lighting just as much F9 would.

[Madrag]

normally the bottom left corner to show the desktop.
I hardly use the show applications or documents... (for that I use the command + >)
(hard habits

[cla]

131 voters (so far) of which 4 have specified that they use neither function keys nor screen corners or a dedicated mouse button to activate Exposé.

Makes one wonder... The next time I'm really bored I'll assign Exposé to speech recognition sound effects. A "whoosh!" to get the desktop, "gnarf!" for application windows and "weeeeeh!" for global windows. Add "GERONIMO!!!" to copy selections and "doh!!" to paste and I'll easily make 'office geek of the week':
whoosh! GERONIMO!!! gnarf! doh! weeeeeh! GERONIMO!!! gnarf! doh!! doh!! doh!! doh!! doh!!

[jasong]

I use SideTrack and mapped the corners of my track pad to Exposé.

-- Jason

[Thorzdad]

When I use it, I use the function keys. However, I really haven't found a true need for Exposé. I tend to use it to find a Finder window buried under the Safari, Illustrator and Photoshop windows. And for that, Exposé is a horribly inefficient tool. Clicking off onto the desktop (ala OS 8/9) was the simplest and quickest method for that.

[alphasubzero949]

F9 Desktop
F10 Apps
F11 All

Lower left corner - All
Lower right corner - Desktop