[Xestrel]

Is there some kind of 3rd part utility which provides some a pager (ala unix) for Spaces that shows the state of the different spaces (like what you see when you hit F8 to see the spaces overview) in a separate window all the time? I've been searching for such a thing, but the signal:noise on google for this seems pretty low (aside from finding entire 3rd - party virtual desktop programs).

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[Gregg]

I haven't run across such a thing, but I'm curious. How do you see being able to use that to your advangage? Presumably, such a window would have to take up at least half of your screen in order to be able to distinguish what each Space contained. So, if you're doing something, rather than just sitting there looking at this window, whatever you have open will hide the "Spaces Pager" anyway. So, at a minimum you'd have to click on it to bring it to the front. (And you'd like that click to not activate the Space you "hit".)

Why not use a mouse button activator to bring up the built-in "Pager"? You can set that in Spaces Preferences. I'm assuming you'd prefer a mouse click to a keyboard shortcut.

[Xestrel]

Well - it was more to provide a visual mnemonic for the space in question - it could be quite small. Other pagers identify the contents of windows with a badge for that window's owning application over it, so even if its so small, one can still tell roughly what's going on in the space. I suppose it's more a question of what one is used to - I'm still becoming accustomed to using the F8 to bring up the spaces overview.

[P]

Pagers are standard in X11 systems that support multiple desktops, what Apple calls spacers. I was never a fan, but I'm surprised that Apple never bothered with such a fundamental feature.

Anyway: This seems to do what you want, among other things. It was added as a later feature, so you might not see it in the description of the app, but I'm told it's there and it works well.

[Xestrel]

Yup - that does indeed to do something like what I want. Thanks!