Yep, things are starting to get a little crowded.ģ. On my desktop, I have five applications open-Mail, iPhoto, iCal, iTunes, and Safari, not to mention a total of three Safari open windows at once. Now you’ll see an overhead view of all your open applications, windows, and spaces. In the example I’m showing here, we’ve only got two spaces running: the Mac OS “Dashboard,” a window with “widgets” for things like the weather, stock tickers, and news headlines, and a single desktop space. First, go ahead and activate Mission Control by clicking its icon in the Mac OS “Dock,” swiping up with three fingertips on your MacBook trackpad, pressing the Mission Control key (the one marked with three little boxes) on your Mac keyboard (it should be in the top row), or by following one of these methods.Ģ. Let’s take a quick tour of the desktop spaces in Lion’s new “Mission Control”-and keep in mind that older versions of the Mac operating system also have the “spaces” feature, which you can manage in the System Preferences panel under the Apple menu.ġ. Indeed, when I switch to a PC running Windows, which doesn’t have built-in desktop “spaces” like the Mac does, the thought of having only one space for all my windows leaves me feeling cramped and claustrophobic.
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Once you get the hang of it, though, these additional desktop spaces-which you manage in Mac OS X Lion with a new feature, dubbed “Mission Control”-can become addicting, even essential. The idea of have more, “virtual” desktop spaces with open windows that you can’t see can take a little getting used to. After all, most of us are used to having a single desktop on our systems-you know, the one that’s directly in front of us.
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