Expose is Back in Mountain Lion!

[PurrBall]

does anyone have a video or screenshot of this new feature in mountain lion?

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/14804337/

 

[skaertus]

That's great news! Exposé is the best desktop management feature ever!

 

[newagemac]

I mostly agree with this (grouping apps together). However, when you scroll up, the windows really don't spread out very well, and unlike App Expose, you can't see the titles for the windows. If they make scrolling up over the applications more like App Expose, Mission Control would be perfect.

You are supposed to use the spacebar in combination with the swipe up. You can easily see any particular window that way. Or choose any window for that particular app and quickly go into App Exposé. But the spacebar works really well in Mission Control. I don't think many people even know about that which is why they have a problem with the grouping.

 

[qoem]

You are supposed to use the spacebar in combination with the swipe up. You can easily see any particular window that way. Or choose any window for that particular app and quickly go into App Exposé. But the spacebar works really well in Mission Control. I don't think many people even know about that which is why they have a problem with the grouping.

no. the reason why people have a problem with the grouping is that grouping has no advantage, and "ungrouping" requires one extra click.

 

[tkermit]

You are supposed to use the spacebar in combination with the swipe up. You can easily see any particular window that way.

I've generally been an advocate of MC, but the view with the windows (more or less) spread out in Mission Control is akin to finding a needle in a haystack as soon as the number of windows exceeds four or five, simply because the windows overlap way too much.

 

[eudyss]

That definitely does look better. But I still miss being able to drag windows between spaces without having to switch to the space I'm moving a window from.

I agree - THAT is the key for my personal most efficient workflow, too.

 

[haravikk]

By the way, if you hit the spacebar each window fully expands.

I know that one, but you have to do it for each window, which doesn't really help with grouped windows as you can't see which window it is that you want to look at

And if you assign the fn key (by itself) to App Exposé

I've tried that as well but it doesn't help that much. Specifically, I maintained the F9 all-windows, F10 app-windows and F11 desktop setup, however it's not possible to switch from all-windows to app-windows directly (you have hit F10 twice); plus app-windows requires you to switch first into the app that you wish to see windows for, which isn't that smooth.

Lion's Mission Control (through grouping) solved the problem of having so many windows open at once that you can't find the particular window you want to use while in Expose´.

I completely agree, however I still feel it's clunky and shouldn't have been released as it is in Lion today. Specifically; not everyone owning a Mac has touch-input, and I know plenty of laptop users who only use the trackpad on the go, and use a mouse when they're at a desk.

Even for touch-input I don't feel that swipe-up is a logical gesture either, it'd make more sense to outwardly 'pinch' (not sure what's that called) to "push" the group apart. Or even just touching the group would make sense, and work better for mouse-users as well.

 

[applesith]

Oh man!! That is awesome!

 

[linuxcooldude]

Its to give the anti-choice worshippers a dose of reality. There have been *many* threads on the issue of expose and each thread had even more individuals ridiculing those that wanted the option to have it back, ignoring it as an issue, downplaying the complaints made, etc.

It was arrogance at its finest.

The responses were more or less in this tone;

'No, Apple doesnt need to fix anything, its not an issue, get used to it, expose has nothing to do with workflow, etc'

It was pretty disgusting.

Because its called an opinion. Rubbing peoples face in it is more self serving and does not really add to a discussion.

It was arrogance at its finest.

I find what your doing just as arrogant.

Lets just chock it up to a difference of opinion which is fine as long as it does not get out of hand like it is now if thats how you decide to play it.

 

[InuNacho]

I completely agree, however I still feel it's clunky and shouldn't have been released as it is in Lion today. Specifically; not everyone owning a Mac has touch-input, and I know plenty of laptop users who only use the trackpad on the go, and use a mouse when they're at a desk.

I rarely ever use my trackpad and find Gestures completely unfriendly and frankly a bit painful. I bring my Logitech Performance MX everywhere with me and have set up the thumb button as all Window Expose and the Zoom button as Desktop Expose.

Getting access to everything doesn't even require moving a finger and honestly I can't adapt to MC.

 

[Spanky Deluxe]

OMG I only just found this after another search for a hack to reintroduce SL expose into Lion. I'm so desperate for this feature I might just pay for the developer license so as to get ML early legitimately. Full expose was the reason I switched to OS X in the first place - it was such a more elegant and easier to use solution to switching applications and windows compared to the alt+tab or the task bar in windows.

Thank God that it looks like Lion will only be the Vista of OS X and not a continuing trend to destroy the UI and ability to actually use a Mac to do serious work.

 

[theSeb]

On the newer keyboard it's the Launchpad key.

F12 for dashboard. (real F12, depending on how you've set up the function keys you may have to have hold down Fn)

 

[WhackyNinja]

Exposé is back? Dude....Mountain Lion keeps getting better and better

 

[Drew017]

This could possibly be a bug, but when I enable the scroll to open stack gesture (which worked in Lion), and scroll over an app icon in the dock that's not currently open, I get snow Leopard's expose...

 

[Simplicated]

This could possibly be a bug, but when I enable the scroll to open stack gesture (which worked in Lion), and scroll over an app icon in the dock that's not currently open, I get snow Leopard's expose...

Definitely a bug. I thought it was fixed in DP3 Update 1

 

[CodeBreaker]

Definitely a bug. I thought it was fixed in DP3 Update 1

That is a feature. It's App Expose. Works since Lion. It will also show recent items for document based apps.

EDIT: Extremely sorry. I thought all windows belonged to the same app...

 

[DarwinOSX]

Never in my life would I have thought that apple would re-introduce a feature based off of user demand. I might actually start liking OS X again

They started doing this in 1984.

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Thank God that it looks like Lion will only be the Vista of OS X and not a continuing trend to destroy the UI and ability to actually use a Mac to do serious work.

Such a silly thing to say.

 

[CrzyCanuck72]

I'm still a bit confused (SL user here); does this mean that all 3 expose modes from SL are now available in ML (all-windows, app-windows, and show desktop)? But for app-windows, it still goes into the Mission Control screen rather than just overlaying over what's currently open (SL-style)?

Can you still use hotcorners and drag files in and out of Expose?

 

[Winter Charm]

I'm going to update to ML and try it out today. Might stick with it, even if it's a DP. Currently on SL.

Mountain Lion is everything Lion should have been, and more! I love it!

It's also smooth and snappy!

 

[Justright]

Expose not showing hidden files?

OK, I'm glad Expose is back in Mountain Lion, I've installed the new OSX and loaded up different apps, I tried hiding some of them and leaving others open, but when I tried using expose it did not show the hidden windows? I'm I missing something or is this left out

Thanks for any feedback

 

[mabaker]

OK, I'm glad Expose is back in Mountain Lion, I've installed the new OSX and loaded up different apps, I tried hiding some of them and leaving others open, but when I tried using expose it did not show the hidden windows? I'm I missing something or is this left out

Thanks for any feedback

Exposé in 10.3., 10.4 and 10.5 never showed any minimized windows.

In 10.6 and upwards it does show minimized windows if you go to "Application Windows Exposé" only.

 

[1swift]

Ive posted this in another post with no response

Maybe someone can shed some light here

I much prefer Spaces to Mission Control, But I really only want one thing that can be implemented into Mission Control easily, and may be, for all I know, possible already

I hope I can explain this.

Back in SL, when I went to the Spaces view AND the all windows view..I could see all of my desktops in the all windows view. So if I had multiple desktops with multiple windows, I could see which was where etc and go to the proper desktop

Now with Mission Control, when I go to the "all windows" view, I see my desktops, but their in the standard view and windows behind other windows are not seen.

Id like to see all desktops in the "all windows" view when I go to launchpad.

Hope that was clear....Is this possible, anyone? Was this the same behavior on Lion?

 

[illuminous]

Glad to see this has made a return.

I have never been a fan of Mission Control. The old 'Expose + Spaces' is Apple at its best.. simple, clean and functional. When I first saw Mission Control, I thought to myself, this is something that Microsoft would do... it works, but just a little clunky.

 

[iAll]

Glad to see this has made a return.

I have never been a fan of Mission Control. The old 'Expose + Spaces' is Apple at its best.. simple, clean and functional. When I first saw Mission Control, I thought to myself, this is something that Microsoft would do... it works, but just a little clunky.

Clunky is an understatement. I'm not a fan of the mouse; this requires you to the mouse instead of the arrow keys(Spaces). And to think I dumped Photoshop CS (Snow Leopard) for Mission Control (Mountain Lion).

 

[splitpea]

Clunky is an understatement. I'm not a fan of the mouse; this requires you to the mouse instead of the arrow keys(Spaces). And to think I dumped Photoshop CS (Snow Leopard) for Mission Control (Mountain Lion).

If one wants new hardware, though, there isn't any alternative -- is there?