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StarfishX - A desktop pattern generator
Authored by: heehorse on Apr 16, '03 02:18:39AM

I don't know about other people, but I very rarely see anything
but about at most 10% of my desktop. This is indicative of a
change of the way I interact with my OS from my Windows days
before I switched a year ago. With Win9x, I would regularly
"minimize all ([Windows]-M)", esp. when switching between the
different tasks/functions that I was doing on my comptuer. Now
with OSX, I find myself just layering window on top of window.
Maybe this is because of the subtle difference in the windowing
metaphore between Mac and Win, or maybe it's because it's not
as easy to "minimize all". Indeed, the only way I can see my
desktop is if I switch to the Finder, Hide Others, and then close
all my open finder windows.

Random Question - does it improve performance/memory
footprint to close or hide windows? I heard that QE allocates a
bug chunk of memory for each window you have open, so after
a certain point, you get serious performance degradation if you
have too many windows open...



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StarfishX - A desktop pattern generator
Authored by: demental on Apr 16, '03 03:07:40AM

Try this :
http://www.everydaysoftware.net/showdesktop/



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StarfishX - A desktop pattern generator
Authored by: truhe on Apr 16, '03 07:55:24AM

command-option-m should minimize all windows. i don't know whether this is just for the current app or for all apps. i saw it yesterday as a tip in a printmag and had not the time to check this :)



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StarfishX - A desktop pattern generator
Authored by: ma2t on Apr 16, '03 08:11:27AM

If you hold Cmd+option and click once on the finder icon in the
dock, you will hide all applications except the finder.



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StarfishX - A desktop pattern generator
Authored by: osx_4me on Apr 17, '03 08:10:51AM
From any give application, hold the option key while clicking on another app's window - or, the Finder's Desktop. This will hide the first app.

If you hold command (or, the "Apple" key), and option while clicking on another app (including the Finder, via clicking on the Desktop), you will hide all but the app you are switching to.

To switch between app's, press command & tab. This switches between your current app & the last one you were using . Press command and "~" (the key to the left of "1") to cycle between open windows of your current application.

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