Exposé tricks

cog on 2005-04-13T18:24:17

I'm writing this down because I found it by accident and I soon realized that most people I talked to (if not all) had no idea of this:

  • By holding the shift key when performing an Exposé action, the action will happen in slow motion. It also works when minimizing/maximizing windows.
  • When you're looking at all the windows (minimized windows) (or even just the windows of a certain application), you can hit Tab to switch between applications (e.g., 10 terminals and 2 browsers, you're seeing them all, you hit Tab and you see, for instance, the 10 terminals; hit it again, et voilá, the 2 browsers!)


Holding both shift and the expose key (F9 here)

Juerd on 2005-04-14T10:26:16

To well examine the effect with this neat slow motion trick, I held both keys to see the action repeated several times.

The keyboard buffer was enough to keep it zooming in and out for 5 minutes already now, and it's still doing that. I think I'm getting sea sick.