10.5: Warp - Add more features to Spaces
Jun 30, '08 06:45:00AM
Contributed by: robg
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[Score: 8 out of 10]
Kent Sutherland, author of Chax, has come up with another gem. Warp is a System Preferences panel that offers some new features that make working with Spaces simpler. First, you can switch spaces simply via mouse drag -- you don't have to be dragging a window; just drag the mouse to the edge of the screen, and after a user-settable delay, you'll switch to the adjacent space. (You can optionally add a required modifier key to the mouse-drag, if you like.)
You can also have the cursor warp into the new space, which changes its position in the new space -- it's hard to explain but easy to understand when you see it in action. A wrap-around setting lets you move from, for instance, the leftmost space to the rightmost space by dragging to the left edge of the screen.
Finally, and perhaps most usefully, if you enable the "Click screen edge to Warp" feature, you'll get a preview of the destination space before you activate it -- click in the small preview window to then switch to that space. This feature, though, didn't quite work right on my dual-monitor setup. The preview window would only show windows that were on the primary screen of the space being previewed.
If you use Spaces a lot, you may find Warp a valuable addition to your toolkit.
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