Spaces? How do you use it?

[Zaeyde]

I LOVE Expose.

Expose and Spaces are in the same category, but I'm unsure how to use it. Can someone please explain it to me?
Thanks!

 

[Dysfunction]

I have absolutely no use for expose, but I use the snot out of spaces. I organize my workflow by virtual desktop.

 

[Fidou]

Expose helps you to have an instant view on all your open applications/windows in your current desktop.

Spaces allows you to reorganize your applications/windows using "virtual' desktop.
For example you could use Spaces to have 1 space containing all your application related to email. instant messaging, another space for browsing internet, another one for iTunes, etc....

 

[RedMatrixXRS]

Here's how I use it. It works well.

 

[deserter85]

I too find no use for Expose because it just seems simpler to do everything with Spaces... If someone can take the time to explain to me how to effectively use Expose in conjunction with Spaces, it'll be great... Or is it the case of if you use one then the other's useless?

 

[voltron]

I'm the opposite. Since I clutter my desktop when working, sometimes with the same app, expose is more convinient for me than spaces. I use hotkeys for my expose and find it quite fast in switching with tons of windows and open apps.

Example. If I have 12 open doc files, open/editing 7 pictures in Lightroom, 15 friends online in iChat etc. That's only 3 apps with tons of windows. Expose rocks!!!

Here's a good vid on expose http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktTNcj0fAM4

 

[Zaeyde]

Well, I use Expose a LOT. I use the lower right hot corner for it, and it's really natural for me. I don't know if I like Spaces... I think it takes too much time.

 

[Noels]

Zaeyde,

Check this out: http://installingcats.com/2007/11/23/how-to-use-mac-os-x-leopard-spaces-efficiently/

Hope that helps, Noel

 

[the8thark]

Actually I don't use either all that much. But what I do use a lot is the apple+tab command on my computer to switch between apps. It's great when there's a heap of screens open at once. And I don't need a clean screen for each app. Just a quick way to sort through the onscreen mess to pick the thing I want and apple+tab does that for me just brilliantly.

 

[Khris]

I use Expose ALL the time......Spaces never.

I find Expose to be even better than the Windows Task Bar or even just Alt-Tab. It gives you an instant view of all your open apps and their current state.

 

[goddess_of_go]

Expose Came First Then Came Spaces

For me I learned to use Expose first. And the more applications I was using the less useful I found Expose by itself. I needed Spaces too.

So I started to use Spaces. I created four spaces and assigned some of my apps to various spaces. After doing so I found my applications were not overlapping that much, therefore I had little use for Expose.

As I find I use more applications that do not have a "home" space I use Expose more again alongside Spaces. I find myself clicking the Spaces icon in the dock a lot and dragging applications from one space to another, and using Expose to find what needs to be dragged while I am viewing all spaces at once.

Terri

 

[mknabster]

I personally don't use it, or know how to. I have seen it in use, but i have another monitor hooked up, so i don't find a need for it. Doesn't it take up more RAM through, if you have all those desktops running all those things?

 

[baggss]

I have used ti from time to time, but it's not something I use daily. Expose is more or less useless IMHO.

 

[Khris]

Doesn't it take up more RAM through, if you have all those desktops running all those things?

No more so than running all the apps on one desktop.

 

[moss918]

I love Expose! I can't stand it at work when I have loads of windows open and don't have anything like it. I also use the hot corners > top left for Spaces, bottom left for Expose and bottom right to view the desktop.

I'm always surprised to hear that people don't use it but then people use computers in different ways i suppose.

 

[walkerj]

Coming to Mac OS X from a Linux/UNIX background, the concept of multiple virtual desktops was quite familiar to me. So much so that I was a bit disappointed that Tiger (well, Panther initially) did not provide such a function. I managed to emulate it to some extent with Virtue Desktops in Tiger, and eagerly anticipated the advent of Spaces in Leopard.

Exposé, however, is a very clever concept. I use it all the time and have done so since the beginning. Combined with Spaces, it's absolutely brilliant for managing your workspace. I have space 1 dedicated to email and chat programs, space 3 dedicated to web browsers, space 4 dedicated to audio editing and iTunes, and space 2 to image editing and word processing. All spaces get Finder windows as needed for whatever a particular app might need (dragging and dropping documents, etc.)

I mostly use the keyboard to switch between the spaces, having remapped the switching key combo to be Command-arrow rather than ctrl-arrow because on my Macbook internal keyboard the command key is located adjacent to the arrow keys for one handed space switching. The ctrl key is located too far from the arrow keys if I'm not using an external keyboard. There is a control key adjacent to the arrow keys on my external keyboard (an old-school Apple bluetooth wireless) but I like to have one-handed operation of space switching with the keyboard even when I'm out and about with just the built-in keyboard.

 

[cjtinkle]

Wow that was very helpful for another new switcher, thank you! I didn't get the purpose of these programs, how cool!

Zaeyde,

Check this out: http://installingcats.com/2007/11/23/how-to-use-mac-os-x-leopard-spaces-efficiently/

Hope that helps, Noel