Exposé Hack

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I saw this on Macosxhints.com....and it works great.

10.3: Replace the Exposé 'Show Desktop' behavior
*Fri, Oct 31 '03 at 10:12AM • from: Spaztik
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This hack creates a new type of Exposé hidden desktop when you press F11. As seen in the screenshot below, all the windows scale down into a tiny translucent box. When you click it, they windows fly back open. Very neat effect!

Launch Terminal.app in Utilities

Type: defaults write com.apple.dock wvous-olddesktop -bool false; killall Dock

Hit F11 and enjoy!


[robg adds: I personally prefer this "show the desktop" effect to the stock version, which shoves all the windows nearly off the screen. You can even drag the box around and place it whereever you'd like to. However, if you're going to test this, you need to know two things:
When a friend was testing it, it locked up his machine tight. Near as we can tell, it crashed/locked the WindowServer daemon. A full reboot was required to unlock the machine, but after that, this trick worked as expected
When enabled on my machine, I cannot move certain windows (Tools, Layers, etc.) in Photoshop Elements. As soon as I revert the behavior (repeat the above command with truereplacing false, or use defaults delete com.apple.dock wvous-olddesktop), everything works again. So for now, I've had to disable this useful hack.
Consider yourself forewarned ... save your work before you test this one!]
 
Screenshot

if you're going to test this, you need to know two things:
When a friend was testing it, it locked up his machine tight. Near as we can tell, it crashed/locked the WindowServer daemon. A full reboot was required to unlock the machine, but after that, this trick worked as expected
When enabled on my machine, I cannot move certain windows (Tools, Layers, etc.) in Photoshop Elements. As soon as I revert the behavior (repeat the above command with truereplacing false, or use defaults delete com.apple.dock wvous-olddesktop), everything works again. So for now, I've had to disable this useful hack.
 
bobw said:
Screenshot

if you're going to test this, you need to know two things:
When a friend was testing it, it locked up his machine tight. Near as we can tell, it crashed/locked the WindowServer daemon. A full reboot was required to unlock the machine, but after that, this trick worked as expected
When enabled on my machine, I cannot move certain windows (Tools, Layers, etc.) in Photoshop Elements. As soon as I revert the behavior (repeat the above command with truereplacing false, or use defaults delete com.apple.dock wvous-olddesktop), everything works again. So for now, I've had to disable this useful hack.
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eh...i just read the comments from users on the site....and well, it doesn't work perfectly.it leaves dead desktop areas where the box resides...even when you aren't in that expose mode...so it's a cool hack, but it does have some very qwerky behavoir....i reverted back to the original expose mode :(

dammit :P
 
monktus said:
Works fine for me so far, prefer it to the standard mode.
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it works alright and all....but wherever that box is located (you can move it) you won't be able to click there :| at least that was my expierience with it.
 
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