I want to see all my open windows so that I can select the one I want to bring to the front. At the moment, when when I hit F1 to see them all, they're stacked one behind the the other for each application.
Which is totally useless. If I'm working on 10 open files in (say) MSWord, I need to be able to see what they all are! Can anyone help?
You want to display Applications Windows - rather than Mission Control - which is a three finger swipe down.
Nope- that doesn't work. I still see all the windows stacked one behind the other (and so small I can hardly see what they are)
Any other suggestions? I need to see all open windows **separately** not stacked.
I've just opened 16 windows in Safari and swiped down to see the Application Windows, they are all displayed separately.
Are you sure you're not displaying Mission Control, do you see the Desktop space at the top of the screen?
I can't swipe. I'm using a mouse. How do I do it with the mouse or better still, what key/s do I hit?
OK, sorry.
By default it should be F10. You can check your Mission Control preference for that setting (Application windows) and reassign if you wish.
I don't get this. I have assigned F1 to Mission Control, F2 to Application Windows, and F3 to "Show Desktop". there don't seem to be any other options.
I am currently running Mail, Adobe Acrobat, MS Word, Safari, and System Preferences.
When I hit F2 (Application Windows) all I see is Safari. All other apps are hidden.
When I hit F1 (Mission Control) I see all my open apps and open windows, but the application windows are all stacked one behind the other. I want to see them all individually.
How do I do this?
I just tried this with several PDFs opened in Preview. If I opened Mission Control (Control Arrow Up) then all the documents in Preview were stacked. But if I opened Application windows (Control Arrow Down) then you see the individual documents as s_coope stated. You can check this in System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Mission Control.
I don't believe that its possible to view all open applications and their associated windows in a tiled fashion at once, which is why I suggested Application Windows.
Well, I think I've tried all the options I can. There's no way I can get all my open windows to display individually. They all display stacked one behind the other, for each application. And what's worse, they're so small I can hardly see them (and I'm working on a 20" Apple Cinema Display).
Any more suggestions? NB I need to hit ONE KEY only not two. But it still doesn't work when I hit an F key plus shift. All I get in that case is a veeerryy sloooow spread of all my open windows - and they remain stacked.
Tom in London wrote:
Any more suggestions?
Probably not ideal, but you can hover your mouse over one of the windows and hold down the space key to pop up an enlarged version.
coope- you wrote "I don't believe that its possible to view all open applications and their associated windows in a tiled fashion at once"
Well. that's how it was in Snow Leopard and that's the way I need it to be. Otherwise I simply don't see the point of it.
Tom,
Application windows only exposes the windows for the application you are currently using. So if you are using Safari at the time you press the button, you will see the Safari windows all spread out. If you are in Finder, you will see all your Finder windows spread out.
I don't know how well it will work with Word mind you.
Misson Control also only displays the windows for the Desktop in which your current application is using. You need to use ctrl and the arrow keys to switch between them whilst staying in Mission Control.
I haven't got used to all this yet. I never really used Expose or Spaces anyway because I found ⌘-tab and a click of the mouse quicker.
I am going to persevere though.
Below is an image of what I see when I select Application windows (Control Arrow Down).
You can see my 3 PDFs next to each other and a history of other documents I have previously opened in Preview
Ian- yes, alas this seems to be another step *back*, not forward, for the Mac OS. As you say, I can see all my open files tiled, but only for one application at a time. That's completely useless for the way I work. I think this ends the discussion but doesn't end my disgust with the pinheads who rewrote the OS for Lion. Do they ever actually do any work themselves?
Thanks guys!
Tom in London wrote:
Ian- yes, alas this seems to be another step *back*, not forward, for the Mac OS. As you say, I can see all my open files tiled, but only for one application at a time. That's completely useless for the way I work. I think this ends the discussion but doesn't end my disgust with the pinheads who rewrote the OS for Lion. Do they ever actually do any work themselves?
Well I can understand you getting frustrated by the fact that features seem to be taken away. I'm a little less quick to condem and open to experimenting.
I've been using Mac's since they used floppy disks and I've experienced lots of changes over the years. In my experience it is a bit of a rough ride when they tweak the GUI, especially when they replace an older design or introduce a new metaphor for working.
What exactly is it you want to do quickly?
Mission control stacks my open windows. I don't want them stacked
