Configure Exposé

Let us return to the System Preferences screen in less than seen previously and posizioniamoci Exposé of the window. The screen will be found as follows:

Deliberately omit the last part of the screen on the dashboard that we analyze in more aprofondita shortly.

We begin now to analyze the central part of the window in which you can make some customizations. First of all, you can set the Exposé mode enabled with another key on the keyboard at will. It 'important to emphasize that, if selected as a key example of those dedicated to the audio / video controller (from F7 to F12), then to launch Exposé mode, you must hold down the fn + key of your choice.

The second personalizzaizone that you can make is related to the Windows application. This mode is the same as shown earlier in fienstre that shows related to a single application. In previous chapters we have seen that you can achieve this or clicking and holding an active application icon on the dock or enter first Exposé mode and then press the tab key on your keyboard. Now you can delegate this task to a key on the keyboard to choose which, if pressed, will show in Exposé mode on the windows application with which you are currently working on (to understand the application associated with the menu that appears in the status bar) .

Finally you can select a key on the keyboard to assign to the task of showing the icons on the desktop that has the same features that Windows users know as show desktop.

Now we shift our analysis on the initial screen that we had deliberately left out the beginning of this chapter. As we can see from the screenshot the sub-menu to which we refer is Active Screen Corners. In Mac OS X we can define the corners of the screen elements such as "live" are thus able to detect an event and perform a particular transaction in the event arise. The event to which we refer is the passage of Fraccia your mouse on the corners of the screen. The operations that can be associated to the event are listed in the menu that appears when you click on the arrows next to a corner of the screen in the system preferences:

The list all the possible operations associated corner of the screen are listed in the following screenshot:

As you can see, the number of associated operations is quite high and it is a good idea to associate to every corner of the active transaction other than to make the most of this powerful tool. Proposed in the screenshot, as the last operation to match is identified by the symbol - which in fact does not match any operation and disables the corner of the screen. Yet the task identified by voice all the windows is the Exposé mode, while the operazine identified with the voice feature is the Windows application which shows all the current running application windows.

If you make a good configuration of the corners of this tool active will definitely increase your productivity during the course of each operation. This is because, for example, if you have an angle associated with the active function of Exposé, definitely will be faster to move the mouse in the direction of the angle of the screen rather than press the keyboard key that invokes the Exposé.

In the next chapter we will present the latest Mac OS X tool that provides us or the Dashboard.

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