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Explore the world of Mac. Check out MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, Mac mini, and more. Visit the Apple site to learn, buy, and get support. The Spaces bar at the top of the Mission Control window contains thumbnails of each desktop space and each window that is in full screen or Split View. To add a space, move your pointer to the Spaces bar, then click the add button on the right: When you have multiple spaces, you can switch between them by clicking the thumbnails at the top of the Mission Control window. The desktop space rearranging feature is really easy to turn off. It’s a feature that’s part of Mission Control. To disable it, open the System Preferences app and go to the Mission Control preference. There are four options here that you can enable or disable. If you like this tip, there are many others like so check out some more Mission Control tips. For some brief history, this setting first appeared in the Mac OS X 10.7.2 update but has stuck around in modern versions of Mac OS X too, well into the modern era of macOS. PAYDAY 2 is an action-packed, four-player co-op shooter that once again lets gamers don the masks of the original PAYDAY crew - Dallas, Hoxton, Wolf and Chains - as they descend on Washington DC for an epic crime spree. PAYDAY 2 Steam charts, data, update history.

Yahoo! Widgets[edit]

Yahoo! Widgets have more in common with Apple's Dashboard than with Exposé. Removing reference Peteresch 20:25, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Why is Yahoo Widgets back on the See Also section? As stated above, it doesn't really involve Exposé. I'm removing it. --Talyian 11:07, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Other Notes on Keys[edit]

  • Pressing and holding F9 (or side-squeezing on a Mighty Mouse) will bring up prompt the standard fly-out. Releasing the key will return the windows to their regular format. Works similarly to F12 for Dashboard. A single, quick key press brings it up until pressed again.
  • As most new Macs are coming with the Mighty Mouse, it might be relevant to include information to its role in Exposé.

YearginSM 20:51, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

  • Actually new macs now have the battery-munching Magic Mouse as standard —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.218.216.157 (talk) 13:11, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

List of 'clones'[edit]

How is a list of Exposé clones spam? Did the publishers go in and make the edits themselves? An encyclopedia is not a web directory, but it's supposed to be informative. If you can't find an article elsewhere about it, why remove the list?--GunnarRene 11:05, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not a mirror or a repository of links, images, or media files. Ask yourself one simple question: does a long list of 'me too' links tell us anything about Expose? The answer is no. Stating that Expose has been cloned and linking (internally) to a couple of examples is enough. AlistairMcMillan 19:07, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Alistair is right on with this one. This article is here to tell us about Expose -- a specific feature of a specific operating system, not to provide advertising to third parties that aren't notable enough to merit their own Wikipedia articles. If someone wants to group together 'window management' articles like this one, Kompose, etc. together into a category, that's would improve the quality of the encyclopedia itself, which is what we should always be focused on. Warrens 19:25, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
Tangent: something I've had on my mental to-do list for a while, is to put together all the stubby pages like this into something like 'Features of Mac OS X'. AlistairMcMillan 20:01, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
I disagree. The previous edits were far from 'a repository of links' and contained much more relevant information than 'Flip3d has some vague resemblance to Expose.' And if you remove that then the remaining text is hardly worth it's own section. Also note that many other software pages on Wiki have sections mentioning or linking to alternative software, or they are linked under the 'See also' section. See: Photoshop, Napster, System Restore, Macintosh Finder70.16.67.46 01:28, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Please tell me/us what you think the content I deleted told us about Expose/ As far as I can see the only thing we need to know is Expose has been cloned. As it stands the article tells us that, we don't need an extensive list of clones. Also the reason why this is different to the articles on Photoshop etc, is that those alternative can replace Photoshop. None of the clones can be swapped out for Expose. They are all implementations for other platforms. The only reason they are being added repeatedly to this article is to advertise them. Wikipedia is not a billboard. AlistairMcMillan 01:42, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
To stop the madness, I've created a separate page covering the Exposé clones. Bert RacoonLife is not a dream, it's a nightmare... 21:21, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Comparisons with Flip3d[edit]

However, Window's alt-tab feature existed as far back as Windows 98 and thus precedes both Flip 3D and Expose by many years.
It seems like this should make some mention of the command-tab that dates back to OS 9. That or drop the bit about windows 98 entirely, it has absolutely nothing to do with OS 10.5 or comparing it to Vista 75.6.2.158 02:59, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Exposé blob.png[edit]

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What is the blob? I have no idea, nor does it explain how to operate it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.218.216.157 (talk) 13:12, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Windows 7 Peek[edit]

This article should probably add the new 'Peek' feature of Windows 7 to the Similar Applications section: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081028-first-look-at-windows-7.htmlRealmRPGer (talk) 17:07, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

The History of mission control is misleading[edit]

The current page starts with 'Mission Control, formerly Exposé, is a feature of the OS X operating system. First previewed on June 23, 2003 ..'. This seems wrong to me: Expose appeared in 2003. However, mission control only appeared in Mac OS X Lion, which was announced only in 2010. Furthermore, the 'formely expose', seems to imply that Expose was simply renamed to Mission Control. This is also not true.

I think it would make more sense to Extract the parts about Expose into their own page, and write something like 'Mission Control was introduced in Mac OS X 10.7 to replace Expose and Spaces'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.207.109.84 (talk) 19:05, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

This is complicated and I'm thinking about how to explain/fix this. My basic feeling is that Mission Control is a view that incorporated some aspects of Exposé and Spaces, while leaving some others to become almost unnamed (the 'view all windows of this application' feature, for instance). At the moment that feature is called App Exposé, but only in System Preferences, while typing Exposé into the search field takes me to mission control. My feeling is that having just one article is best, and to explain something like: 'These features, now part of Mission Control, were once part of the Exposé system.' Blythwood (talk) 20:13, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

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Mission Control
Operating systemMac OS X 10.7 Lion or later and iPadOS 13 or later
Websitesupport.apple.com/en-us/HT204100

Mission Control is a feature of the macOSoperating system. Dashboard, Exposé, and Spaces were combined together and renamed Mission Control in 2011 with the release of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. Exposé was first previewed on June 23, 2003 at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference as a feature of the then forthcoming Mac OS X 10.3 Panther.[1]

Mission Control allows a user to do the following:

  • View all open application windows
  • View all open application windows of a specific application
  • Hide all application windows and show the desktop
  • Manage application windows across multiple monitors
  • Manage application windows across multiple virtual desktops

Usage[edit]

Exposé and Mission Control include three separate features for organizing windows and open applications:

All windows
Shows all open and unhidden windows, and all virtual desktops, shrinking their appearance so they all fit on a single screen. On newer Mac keyboards, this is activated from the F3 key, or F9 on older keyboards. On Apple's Magic Mouse or multi-touch trackpads, this can be activated by pulling up on the trackpad with three or four fingers. Mission Control redesigned this feature extensively to show all running desktops.
Application windows
Also called 'App Exposé'. Shows all open and minimized windows for the currently active application. During this mode, the user can choose a window to switch to by using mouse or keyboard, or cycle through windows of different applications by pressing the tab key. This can be activated by pulling down with three or four fingers on a trackpad, the F10 key on older keyboards, by pressing Control + F3 on newer Apple aluminium and Macbook keyboards, or by right-clicking the app's icon on the dock and selecting 'Show all windows'. On OS X Snow Leopard. App Exposé can be activated by clicking and holding the application's icon in the dock.
Desktop
Moves all windows off the screen, with just the edges of the windows visible at the side of the screen, giving the user clear access to the desktop and any icons on it. This can be activated by pressing CommandF3 on newer Apple aluminum and Macbook keyboards, the F11 key on older keyboards. On a trackpad, it can be selected by placing four fingers on the trackpad and pulling them away from each other.

In the first two cases, after Mission Control is activated, the user can select any window by clicking on it or selecting it with arrow keys and pressing Enter. Exposé then deactivates, leaving the selected window in the foreground. Using Apple Mighty Mouse, it is possible to select a window using the Scroll Ball, by scrolling in the direction of that window.

The keyboard shortcuts used for activating Exposé can be customized to be any of the function keys, the shift, control, option or command key, the fn key on Mac laptops, or even a mouse button on multiple-button mice (including Apple Mighty Mouse).

Different features of Mission Control can also be activated by moving the mouse to a 'hot corner' of the desktop. This system is off by default; it can be enabled from System Preferences.

Changes in Mission Control[edit]

When Exposé first premiered in 2003, it could be controlled using the F9, F10 and F11 keys.

The Exposé shortcut keys were moved to the F3 key to make room for the 'rewind', 'play/pause' and 'fast forward' keys. On Mac keyboards made after 2004, Exposé can be activated by using the F3 key or in combination with the command key, or on the trackpad of Macbooks supporting multi-touch interface. (However, F9, F10 and F11 can still be used for controlling Exposé with the function modifier key, or by enabling the 'Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys' setting.)

On Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Exposé featured a new organized grid view and allowed users to activate Exposé from the Dock.

In Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, some features of Dashboard, Exposé, and Spaces were incorporated into Mission Control. This gave an overview of all running applications just like 'All windows' but grouped windows from the same application, and added a display of Spaces. Desktop view and application window view were retained, the latter under the name of App Exposé, and could be accessed through gestures on multi-touch trackpads.

Some users criticised Mission Control in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion for not offering an unobscured 'Exposé' view of all the windows in single workspace: windows of the same application are always hidden in bundles. This issue was fixed in Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, however, with a checkbox in the System Preference pane allowing a user to choose whether to group windows of the same application. Some features of Exposé and Spaces from OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard did not return, however: it does not show the names of the windows displayed, nor does it return the added functionality provided by Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard multiple desktops feature, known as 'Spaces,' which allowed users to drag and drop windows between desktops with a single click, and also allowed for larger thumbnail previews of each desktop in a 2D grid when in use.[2]

Undocumented features[edit]

The 'blob' is a hidden and undocumented interface to Exposé that was discovered by a member of the MacNN forums.[3] When clicked, it enables the 'Application Windows' mode. When Option+clicked, it enables the 'All Windows' mode.

Another undocumented feature of Exposé is for the show desktop function. It places all the open windows in a small box on the screen that can be moved to anywhere on the screen.[4] This function has some bugs, after exiting the show desktop mode, the foremost window will not have a shadow and the user will not be able to move the window. However, this is easily fixed by using the show all function. It also had another bug that causes an area of screen the width of the minimised preview to become unresponsive to mouse clicks requiring the windowserver to be restarted.

Using the Shift key, Mission Control can be activated in slow motion, as can Dashboard and the minimise effect and several other animations. This is the same effect that was demonstrated by Steve Jobs during the unveiling of Exposé during the 2003 Worldwide Developers Conference.[5][6]

Similar applications[edit]

Similar effects are used on other operating systems.

Microsoft Windows 2.0 first introduced a window switcher in 1990. Using Alt+Tab ↹, users could see a flattened view of all open windows. Every version of Windows since then has also provided this window switching functionality. Vista and Windows 7 provide an additional feature called Windows Flip 3D, which has a broadly similar purpose. Flip 3D allows a user to flip through all open windows with a three-dimensional perspective. A downside to this method is that the front-most window covers a significant portion of the other windows, unlike Exposé. On the other hand, this allows the user to see the contents of the front-most window, while this can be difficult in Exposé, especially if the user has a large number of windows open. Vista's Desktop Window Manager exposes a public API that allows any application to access the same thumbnail representations that Flip3D uses, and so there are a number of third party add-ons that are able to provide Exposé-like functionality in Vista. A very few third party applications, such as the Emcee Desktop Organizer, provide Mission Control-like organization of similar windows into visual 'stacks,' or support Windows 8's 'Immersive' Apps. Windows 10 adds a very similar feature called Task View which also includes multiple-desktop support.

Microsoft's Intellipoint Software for Microsoft Mice has a feature similar to Exposé[7] as it also works with live images of windows, rather than static representations. Additionally, several freeware Windows applications exist to emulate the functionality of Exposé.

Compiz and KWin are compositing window managers for systems using the X Window System. Both include plugins similar to Exposé - the scale plugin in Compiz and the present windows effect in KWin. Skippy also performs similar functions to Exposé.

Starting with version 3.0, the GNOME desktop environment has gained a new mode called 'Overview', which is used to launch applications and manage workspaces. In this mode, windows are scaled and arranged in an Exposé-like fashion for quick switching.

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For Classic or Legacy Macintosh systems, the free Finder Workspaces[8] offers functionality similar to Spaces.

Chrome OS has a window overview mode[9] that shows a thumbnail of all open windows, available by pressing the 'window switcher' key or swiping up with 3 fingers on the trackpad. Windows in overview mode can be closed by clicking an associated close button, or selected by clicking on the window thumbnail, which also closes overview mode and brings the selected window to the foreground.

See also[edit]

Mission: Demolition Mac Os Catalina

References[edit]

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  1. ^'Apple Previews Mac OS X 10.3 'Panther''. Apple Press Release Library. June 23, 2003. Retrieved August 19, 2006.
  2. ^Caolo, Dave (July 20, 2012). 'OS X Lion and Mission Control'. The Unofficial Apple Weblog. AOL. Retrieved April 11, 2012.
  3. ^sandsl (October 9, 2003). 'wvous: 'Hidden' Dock Feature'. MacNN forums. Retrieved August 20, 2006.
  4. ^[1] Tutorial at macosxhints.com
  5. ^'OS X Panther - Expose'. YouTube. September 7, 2007.
  6. ^Pogue, David (2011). OS X Lion: The Missing Manual. O'Reilly Media. p. 176. ISBN9781449397494.
  7. ^'Instant Viewer'. Archived from the original on March 6, 2011.
  8. ^'Finder Workspaces 2.2'. Archived from the original on March 19, 2014.
  9. ^'The New Overview Feature in Chrome OS'. OMG! Chrome!.

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