Annoying Expose

Wow. The update to Expose is annoying. Now there is no way to avoid it! Previously when you click and hold on an App in the Dock, or Option-Clicked, you got a simple pop-up menu for certain things to do. Especially useful for Option-Clicking to Force Quit a non-responding App.

Now every time you click-hold or option click-hold, it triggers Expose and the pop-up menu is not directly above the icon. It is horizontally across. So if you want to quit or force quit, you have to move the mouse off to the side to select the quit/force quit option.

It was more convenient before if you had no interest in Expose. Now it is kind of forced on you with no way to go back to the previous method.

iMac (Early 2008) Intel 24" 2.8 GHz, PowerBook G4 15" Titanium 867 MHz, Mac OS X (10.6), iMac G5 (iSight) 20" 2.1 GHz, Power Mac LC 575, PowerBook 540c, Duo 230, 2300c

Posted on Aug 31, 2009 9:09 PM

17 replies

Peter Hillman Author

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Sep 8, 2009 9:53 PM in response to lamemodem

lamemodem wrote:
I had to register to reply to this thread. Could you please tell me what you didn't to fix this issue? The Dock Expose is driving me crazy.

Yes, here is the solution. Click and holding the mouse will bring up Expose (in Leopard it brought up the contextual menu). Now, you have to either right-click (with mighty mouse or two button mouse) on a dock icon, or control-click on a dock icon to get the contextual menu. You can hold Control-Option to get the alternative contextual menu to force quit a program. This will avoid triggering Expose. I found it easier to just click and hold the mouse for the contextual menu in Leopard, but now you have to right-click or control-click (which was also available in Leopard) to avoid Expose.

Sep 9, 2009 6:21 AM in response to Peter Hillman

Ok, thanks for the info. I was hoping you'd found a way to turn it off. I really hate the way it works now and don't want to have to add a keyboard command to something so simple that I've been doing for years. I quit all my apps this way and this new dock expose feature really, really annoys me.

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Annoying Expose