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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 have more in common with Apple's Dashboard than with Exposé. Removing reference Peteresch 20:25, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
YearginSM 20:51, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
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)
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)
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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)
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 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)
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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:
Exposé and Mission Control include three separate features for organizing windows and open applications:
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.
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]
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 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.
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.