Mission control stacks my open windows. I don't want them stacked

Tom in London wrote:

quote "What exactly is it you want to do quickly"

I want to hit F1 (only, no other keys) and see all my open windows in all running applications, tiled.

Then reload Snow Leopard. That does not exist on Lion. Or, provide feedback and hope they change it back: http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

I don't understand If I hit F3 or mission control and I have 6 files open they are all shown not stacked if I want to open any one I just click and it comes to the front The more I have open The smaller they get. When I hit F3 my screen shot shows dashboard and the desktop small at the top then under these shots are all the open windows spread out. mine works great

Mine worked great sometimes and other times not so great. I have 4 programs open and they are stack one behind the other. When it does work properly it is great.

Tom,

I was looking into the same issue after I frequently used Expose to see open windows ( I always seem to have about 5 apps and 40 windows on the go!) and when I did this after Lion install I got the Mission control screen with all the pages stacked behind the application - which I did not think was a bad idea, but like you was looking for a specific page. Tried a number of things but found that if I hovered the mouse over the Application pile and then (I have a magic mouse so I don't know if this will work on a wheel or mighty mouse) I swiped up with one finger and all the windows in that application spread out behind the pile enabling me to find the right one.

Don't know if that will help you but certainly was useful find for me.

I am a little confused by this discussion.

Are you saying, if you are running one Safari window, one Mail window, one Finder window, one App Store window and one Address Book window -- and you hit Mission Control -- they are all supposed to be overlapping?

Mine are, and with two of the windows shoved off the edge of the screen. You can see the icons, but the visible parts of the windows are beyond the edge of the screen.

This can not be correct Mission Control behavior, but the discussion above implies it is?

I started a different discussion where I tried explain the issue more clearly. Here is a link and a screen shot of the problem.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3223777?answerId=15789010022#15789010022

I just opened 16 windows in Safari and even with them spread out I could only see parts of 6 of them. No way to tell what window was what. The rest where completely hidden behind the full sized representations of the windows. We need the seperate mini windows back for this feature to be useful.

In speaking with Apple Support there is an easy solution, kind of:

When in Firefox or any other program, all you need to do is hold option and push the down arrow and it will spread/tile them as Expose used to. Now this doesn't tile ALL open applications, however in my line of work I have anywhere from 10-20 open web windows. This allows me to see all of them with title labels as Expose used to. Now they need to provide this functionality across all applications that are open... Hope this helps a little.

Tom i know exactly what u mean actually this is why i came to your thread.

I want to have multiple apps open with multiple windows also open and when i want to see all windows i want to see EVERY window SEPARATED this is what we were able to do in snow leo. but cant do in lion what its doing is stacking them this is something i dislike also becuase i have to work hard to find exaclty what window i want in that certian running application. so if there is anything i can do please let me know

thanks

how do i go about doing that lol cuz im giving up on lion too many things i dislike the things that made me love macs in the first place

This is a major loss in functionality for me in the design of my work flow. As a writer, I keep multiple Safari windows open (research), multiple text pad windows open (quotes, statistics and notes), and a Word doc open (for what I'm writing). With expose, I could be in my word doc, press a button and switch directly to web page or note pad that I needed to reference. Now, I have to click on the application, then press a button to bring all those application windows up.

I know that sounds like a small thing, but when you're doing this three or four times per sentence written, the time adds up.

ifpt999 wrote:

This is a major loss in functionality for me in the design of my work flow. As a writer, I keep multiple Safari windows open (research), multiple text pad windows open (quotes, statistics and notes), and a Word doc open (for what I'm writing). With expose, I could be in my word doc, press a button and switch directly to web page or note pad that I needed to reference. Now, I have to click on the application, then press a button to bring all those application windows up.

I know that sounds like a small thing, but when you're doing this three or four times per sentence written, the time adds up.

This thread is very old. If you move forward to Mountain Lion you will get it back, otherwise return to Snow Leopard.

Cheers

pete