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Mission Control brings together Exposé, Dashboard, Spaces, and full-screen apps to give you one place to see and navigate everything that's currently open on your Mac. In Mission Control, all of your open windows and spaces are visible, grouped by app

Mission Control brings together Exposé, Dashboard, Spaces, and full-screen apps to give you one place to see and navigate everything that's currently open on your Mac. In Mission Control, all of your open windows and spaces are visible, grouped by app. See http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204100 for how to use Mission Control.

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Can I set a delay on Mission Control Hot Corners? Or maybe change how they’re triggered?

I love using Hot Corners, but I regularly trigger them by mistake when performing other tasks, so I disabled them for a while and found I couldn’t live without this functionality. This got me to thinking - what if I could set a delay (0.5 secs)…
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Where can I remove a desktop in Mission Control?

In Mission Control, I can add a desktop by pushing the button on the top right. How do I remove a desktop? Or where in my system preferences do I look to do this?
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Can I make hot corners require a mouse click to be triggered?

I love the "Hot corners" concept. However, it happens very often that I trigger them accidentally. Is there a built-in way to add a "click" requirement to a hot corner? ie. I have to move the mouse there and then to left-click. (This would also help…
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How to disable Mission Control shortcut?

I often use IDE's for editing and the shortcut for mission control interferes with my shortcuts within aptana and or other editors. Is there a way to disable the apple shortcut (control+▲) for osx 10.8.2 ?
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How can I have Mission control, but just for one application?

I have tons of windows open, and would like Mission control to only show the windows for one application. How can I do that? Note: I know that I can "scroll up" on the bundled windows for a particular application in Mission control, and the windows…
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Mission Control on Mac with multiple Screens

I have an issue how Mission Control selects pro-actively the focused app/window on a monitor B when chosing the app in Monitor A. Setup For simplicity let's say I have two monitors, A and B. Both have one desktop/workspace each both have two…
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Prevent window rearrangement every time I open mission control

I found mission control quite awkward. The problem is I have four IntelliJ open under one space and I need to switch between them without pain. Every time I open mission control these windows are in a different location. I need to hover over each…
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How to re-assign option-F3 to "application windows"

If I assign option-F3 in the "Application Windows" select list in: System Preferences->Mission Control It seems to allow me to do that and there are no conflicts reported for the key-combo in: System Preferences->Keyboard->Shortcuts But the next…
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Silhouette of full screen app using mission control stuck on screen

I was trying to move a full screen app from my external monitor to the macbook screen after activating mission control by dragging and dropping. The app was not moved across screen. Instead only a silhouette was caught on the macbook screen. I…
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Mac's strange behaviours, ⌘C not work, holding down ⇧ Shift not do a capital "E" & "mission control" getting activated randomly

⌘C command not copying, holding down ⇧ Shift not do a capital "E" & more than 10 random keys will activate "mission control". I have Lightroom CC, Overwrite the Preferences of Lightroom didn't help at all. What can I do?
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Mission Control order criteria

What action is determining apps & windows list order in Mission Control, left to right? It looks like this changes while using the same apps/windows...
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Mission Control in a 2D arrangement?

Is there a way of arranging Mission Control's workspaces in a two dimensional layout (like 5x5)? So far I've only been able to arrange them in a one dimensional straight line (like 1x9) across the top. I'm finding that even though there are fewer…
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Mission Control erratic behavior

Whenever I minimize a maximized application window (e.g., MS Word) in a Desktop Space, the computer: Moves the application window to a different Desktop Space, and Either: closes the Desktop Space, or Doesn't close the Desktop Space, leaving it…
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