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Right-click background apps without switching
Authored by: delventhalz on Dec 27, '07 09:14:55AM

This is nothing new. I have been showing customers at the Apple store how useful it is to be able to do this for years. You can also do it by control-clicking or clicking and holding down an extra second. Welcome to the world.



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Right-click background apps without switching
Authored by: wordsofwisedumb on Dec 27, '07 07:26:49PM

I'm not sure you understood him correctly. Ctrl+clicking and clicking and holding does not produce the results he is explaining. Either of the two bring the background application into focus. If you have a trick to keep the background application being clicked on in the background, please share it.



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Right-click background apps without switching
Authored by: asmeurer on Jan 03, '08 03:28:24PM

I got the Control-hold to work with Mail, but only in the list of messages, not the actual message viewer. It didn't work at all in Safari or Finder.



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depends on the application
Authored by: lsloan on Sep 26, '08 08:15:04AM

Right-clicking some background applications doesn't work. For example, if I have Mozilla Thunderbird 2 (email client) in the background, right-clicking on it doesn't bring up a context-sensitive menu. It brings the entire application to the foreground. Right-clicking on this now foreground application does bring up the CSM. In this case, I think it happens because Thunderbird uses its own UI widgets instead of the ones provided by the OS. That's why the CSM under most applications in Mac OS X 10.5 have the new rounded look, those in Thunderbird have an old rectangular look. The same goes for Mozilla Firefox 2.

OT: Hate that these apps don't use the standard UI widgets. I'm not able to use MOSX text services with them and some pull-down menus ignore keyboard input for jumping through long lists.

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