Comments on: Moving to Mac: Window Management Tips

By: Randall Noval

Randall Noval — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:13:57 +0000

Actually, the built-in OS X help files are pretty good for instructions on how to use. In the Finder go to the “Help” menu and search for “Spaces” there are descriptions of the service as well as how to configure it. For example, I have 4 spaces (clockwise from the top left: internet, email, music, media) and have assigned applications to always launch in their own spaces with some (like Adium) that are available in all spaces.

There are similar descriptions and configuration options for all Mac services there.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/

HTH,
Randall

By: Martin Forrester

Martin Forrester — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 04:15:31 +0000

An alternative to “Show Path Bar”, that’s a little more space-efficient… Just right click (or control click or command click) on the Finder window’s title and you get a pop-up menu of the path to your folder. A second alternative (which I use) is to customize the Finder toolbar to add the “Path” button, which you can then just single click to get that same pop-up menu (so it’s a bit more obvious than right-clicking the window name).

By: Jens Hjerrild Poder

Jens Hjerrild Poder — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:12:49 +0000

Alt-tabbing to a minimized windows is actually doable.

All you do is…

* Alt-tab to the application for the windows
* Press down-arrow (this’ll display the active windows and minimized windows for the application)
* Arrow to the window of choice and press return

It’s a little slower, but then again you don’t need to alt-tab through everything (20 open browser windows).