Access all Exposé modes on new keyboards
Apr 10, '09 07:30:00AM
Contributed by: revision29
On my new Unibody MacBook, I really enjoy the dedicated Exposé key (F3). The only problem is that I assumed it did only one thing: enter the All Windows mode of Exposé. Through experimentation, however, I have learned that is not the case; the following modifier keys change the behavior of the F3 key:
- Control-F3: Current application windows mode
- Command-F3: Show desktop mode
- Option-F3: Opens the Exposé & Spaces System Preferences panel.
I assume these shortcuts will work on all Macs with a single dedicated Exposé key. As I have been in 12" PowerBook land for five years, I don't know exactly which models this will apply to.
[robg adds: I thought we had this documented here somewhere, but a search on all the obvious, required words comes up empty.]
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