Spaces: revised

[Xairbusdriver]

I think you will have a Finder window in any 'space' in which you open one. Finder must be available in any/all 'space(s). But other aps/files don't have that operational "limit."

[Gregg]

You might be on to something there. I'll have to pay closer attention to the sequence of opening stuff. Thanks!

[krissel]

For me, Expose is invaluable. I set one corner for showing all windows and another to hide everything to see the desktop. You can also set it to only show application windows but I don't have Spaces so I don't know whether one overrides the other?

[Gregg]

kris, Expose has definitely changed in Leopard then. I'll check to be sure, but I don't remember an option to set a "hot corner" to show all windows. That's in the realm of Spaces. Expose (in Leopard) does let you assign that to an F key, as Jim noted.

[Gregg]

Ok, here it is. My version of Expose only shows 4 things in the "Screen Corners" section. (Makes sense, unless your screen has five or six corners.) Those are: Start or Disable Screen Saver (that's 2), Sleep, and Spaces. Now, before there were Spaces, there was void - oh, wrong text... There was something else.

Then in the Expose section (strange that a section has the same name as the toggle button for Expose/Spaces) is where you set F keys to show All Windows, Application Windows, or the Desktop ("naked"). Then there is Dashboard below that. Next to all of these is another pull down with choices for a Secondary Mouse Button, or Mouse Button 3 4 or 5, and those are blank (instead of Some Windows, Some Applications, Something Else...). I don't know if I can define something instead of the 'dash' it shows there now. When I pick the pull down, it reveals a check mark next to the dash, and the mouse button options.

[Xairbusdriver]

I think you'll need to use the "Keyboard & Mouse" pref panel to set those buttons. However, you'll also need to actually have a mouse with those buttons. If you got the new Apple Scroll ball mouse, you have them but I don't find those side buttons convenient to use. Probably because my hand is large and wraps around them just to hold the mouse. Non Apple mice should also work, maybe without any extra drivers.

[Gregg]

Thanks Jim. That's half the puzzle. Just what could they be set to do, and how? If they just do "dash" (-) what good is that?

[Xairbusdriver]

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Just what could they be set to do?

That may depend on what mouse you are using, it may come with certain options that could be different than Apple's. There is an "Other" option in my panel. I set that to run an AppleScript that was supposed to start my car and let it warm up on cold days. I finally gave up trying to find the AS Dictionary for my car... I think you can set that to open just about any app/folder/file/script/etc. that you want.

[JohnKentucky]

Personally, I find Spaces to be a great tool!

Here's what I use it for, I have 6 "spaces" set.

Space 1: This is for internet surfing. So Safari, iChat, and Mail are assigned to this.
Space 2: Photoshop CS. This way I can work on a photo and not be distracted by iChat.
Space 3: Aperture. Aperture takes up the whole monitor, so I gave it it's own space.
Space 4: iTunes, Visual Hub, & Handbrake
Space 5: MS Office
Space 6: Final Cut Express. Same as Aperture.


I leave all these programs running all the time.

[Xairbusdriver]

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Personally, I find Spaces to be a great tool!
Here's what I use it for, I have 6 "spaces" set.

Glad you like it! I think I just haven't tried it as much as I should/could.

Can you confirm that Finder is available in all spaces? That makes sense but it seems like I remember some strange space swapping when I tried to access Finder. Can't remember...

[JohnKentucky]

This is what I'm finding out, but didn't know before:

If I open up a folder on my desktop called pictures in Space 1, if I go to any other space and open up the folder pictures from there, it shifts back to space 1 to that open folder.

Now, if I went to space 4 and opened up applications folder, and went to space 6 and did the same thing, it would shift to space 4 to the already opened applications folder.

An easy way around this if I was in Space 6 and wanted to get that pictures folder open in that space (if the pictures folder was opened in say space 1), then I would click on the Finder icon in the dock and navigate to where I need to go.

[Gregg]

I think Jim means Finder windows; are they available in all Spaces? If that's not what he means, that's my question. I haven't been able to figure out how to (or if I can) control where Finder windows appear.

To answer the question Jim did ask; yes. Just click on the desktop background behind the visible app window, and the menu changes to Finder.

[JohnKentucky]

ok, I'm a bit confused guys.

When you say Finder Window, you do realize that this is a finder window?



When you open up any folder, basically you are in the finder, not an application. Can you all please clarify what you are talking about?

[JohnKentucky]

This is a screenshot of all of my spaces. The smaller windows are "finder windows" opened in each space. Like I said before, if I was in space 4 and opened up a folder called "pictures", then when I go to space 1 and try to open up that same folder, Spaces takes me to the Space 4. And will keep doing it unless I close that pictures folder or move it to the space I want.

[Gregg]

QUOTE(JohnKentucky @ Feb 15 2008, 06:03 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

When you say Finder Window, you do realize that this is a finder window?

Exactly! Some Spaces can be empty, of course, in which case you only see the desktop if you click there, and Finder appears in the menu.

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When you open up any folder, basically you are in the finder, not an application. Can you all please clarify what you are talking about?

In a sense, the Finder is an application. Like other applications can be, it is active even if no window is opened in it.

I see from your second shot that there are finder windows open in several spaces. I want to control that, and have them only be visible in the Space I choose. I'm not sure that's possible.