App Expose does not work on Lion...

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App Expose does not work on Lion...

I just updated to Lion and let me tell you...Spaces and Expose as it was in Snow Leopard was beautifully designed and very functional, I depened on them A LOT, I can't abelieve apple replaced them for this MONSTRUOSITY called Mission Control.

It's anoying that now you can't have rows/columns for spaces since I usually use at least 6 desktops and moving through them in Snow Leopard was a lot easier. I hope they reconsider bringing back the old Spaces cause the new one *****.

Annyway...here's my problem, App Expose it used to show all the apps opened in that desktop and show the ones minimized on the bottom, well now when I have 3 or more apps open and do the gesture for the Expose, the system only shows me te active screen.

take a look at my first screenshot, the Mission Control shows I have three apps running on Desktop 2 (System Prefs, Safari and Firefox).

but when I use the expose, only the active window is displayed, see the second screenshot.

Is this a bug?

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Mac OS X (10.7), Bug found on Lion

Posted on Jul 23, 2011 11:45 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 27, 2011 3:10 AM in response to hans@Montreal

+1

Identical problem here. Still searching for a solution. I'm used to switching between active windows with a 4-finger down swipe and I have no interest in switching over to the swipe-up launchpad mission control - whatever - version.

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Answer 2

Jul 27, 2011 11:31 AM in response to shepditch

App Expose in Lion works differently than Expose did in Snow Leopard.

App Expose is intended to show all open windows from the same application.

Expose used to show all open windows from all applications.

To test App Expose in Lion, open two (or more) separate windows in Safari (or any application). Three-finger swipe down on your trackpad and App Expose will reveal your two (or more) open Safari windows.

In Lion, the most similar thing to the old Expose (from Snow Leopard) is the new Mission Control.

To test Mission Control, open several applications. Three-finger swipe up on your trackpad and Mission Control will reveal all open applications, dashboard and spaces. If you have multiple windows open in a single applications (like three separate Safari windows, for example), MIssion Control groups those same-app windows together.

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Answer 3

MitulR

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Jul 30, 2011 1:01 PM in response to shepditch

I agree, I prefer (and need) the Expose for Applications.

If you hold down the App in the dock bar then you get an option - 'Show all Windows' - and this does what I require.

Anyway this can be re-enabled in Lion?

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Answer 4

Lanny

Level 6

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Jul 30, 2011 1:08 PM in response to MitulR

Check the hot corners settings in Mission Control.

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Answer 5

Aug 7, 2011 4:35 AM in response to hans@Montreal

Good news, there is a better way and its call "Expose"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktTNcj0fAM4

I went back to Snow Leopard - and couldn't be happier. This is how...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3202120

Also don't forget to provide Apple with your feedback too...

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

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Answer 6

Aug 25, 2011 4:07 AM in response to hans@Montreal

I discovered by chance yesterday that if you double tap ( not click) the app, you get the old style 'application expose' with out having to select the menu item. Is this documented some where ? There may be other such features .

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Answer 7

Sep 13, 2011 12:50 PM in response to Simonp123456

Thanks Simonp123456. Exactly what I was looking for. Used to do this with click and hold on the application in the dock and thought is was gone with Mission Control.

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Answer 8

sidney37

Level 1

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Dec 29, 2011 4:09 AM in response to hans@Montreal

I was having trouble with the new App Expose feature. Couldn't get the "in app apread" to work with the downward swiping of four fingers. Then I turned off the full screen mode and it worked fine. Seems like the full screen mode interferes with some of the functions. Another example of this is using different screensets within Logic. My nicely thought out screensets do not work in full screen mode. So i just turn it off.

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