Who agrees the thumbnails in Mission control need to be bigger?

Yes/no . I am on an eleven inch air. They look like little postage stamps with braille on them. Totally useless to me. Did anyone at Apple bother to test it on an 11 inch air to see how it worked? I have to wonder.

I am also having the same problem. However I do notice that when I open a fresh desktop and I view mission control from that desktop I can see all of the desktop thumbnails ok. However they fail to work when I 'slide' across to the other desktops... See the below images. Anyone know a fix?

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What is the point of Mission Control?

I have been a Mac user since 1987, when I got my first SE/30. I understand a LOT about the Mac OS, and I consider myself and expert. For the life of me, however, I cannot figure out the point of Mission Control (or Exposé or Spaces, for that matter). Let me explain, and ask if anyone here can clear this up for me.
As I understand it, the point of Mission Control is to make it easy to access various open applications in an uncluttered workspace/desktop. If this is the case, then how is this better than, say, Quickeys, which I have used forever?
In other words, I typically use the following applications, all open at the same time: Word, Mail, Safari, my office accounting program, iTunes, iChat, and maybe one or two more. I use Quickeys and have assigned a keyboard shortcut for each - for example, control-E for mail; control-s for Safari; control-W for Word, etc. It is second nature for me to immediately go to, say, Mail by pressing control-E. Bringing the app to the front is literally instantaneous.
I "get it" that, say, Safari can show below Mail, or iTunes can show behind Word, but that (multiple windows partially overlappiong each other) has never bothered me - indeed, I've never even considered it something worthy of worry.
Thus, my question is, how does Mission Control do this - navigation of open applications - better than Quickeys? Is it simply and only to avoid the "behind the window clutter"? If so, is the contortion needed to activate Mission Control - removing fingers from keyboard, clicking mouse, navigating mouse to proper desktop, and returning keys to keyboard - worth it? If so, how? There has to be something else to this Mission Control that I am just missing.
Could one of you enlighten me?
Thanks!

Different people have different ways of working and long ago I discovered the joys of virtual desktops (think mission control). Since System 7 (when the multi-finder stopped being optional) I've been keeping lots of programs open at the same time. The problem with that is the desktop gets very cluttered very fast and getting to the right window of the right program can be challenging. Thankfully between 3rd party tools and Apple's own built in tools we have many ways of dealing with this. Mission Control (virtual desktops) is one of them.
I have assigned related programs to a single desktop. I have the Programming Desktop where the terminal, BBedit, Racket, and Xcode tools live. I have the Writing Desktop where Pages, Word, and InDesign live. And so on. This cuts down on the clutter of my display since only a couple programs appear on a single virtual desktop. Where Mission Control itself comes into play is when I need to get a resource from one Desktop to another. Say I'm writing an email and need to refer back to a document in Word. I might open the document in Word (which would move me into the Writing Desktop) then I'd shift to Mission Control and drag that Word document's window into my Internet Desktop so it would temporarily reside along with Mail so I could look at both the Word document and my email.
It isn't the only way to work but I've found it very convenient and indispensible on my notebook. On my work desktop where I have two displays my workflow is a little different since I have lots of REAL window space.

The animation of mission control lock

the animation of mission control lock, I have a macbook pro with 8GB of ram and dual core i5, what is the problem?

System Preferences/Mission Control and un-check "Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use".

Why do the thumbnails in a clip need to repeat themselves in the timeline?

I'm confused about something. When I drop a clip into the timeline, if I want the video and audio to show then the thumbnail for the clip basically repeats itself for the length of the clip in the timeline. In FCP 7 when a clip is dropped in the timeline there is one thumbnail on the left and then just the length of the clip.
It is very hard to see clip separation in the timeline if it's a constanst stream of thumbnails - anyway to turn this off???

Tom, you seem a little negative - just an observation from someone who is knew to this board. I'm just trying to get an understanding of a new application. I of course, am only working from my knowledge of FCP 7. I've worked in FCP since 2002 so I'm very aware of FCP 7. I'm not trying to make FCP X into 7 but I am wondering how some of the SIMPLE things that were able to be achieved in FCP 7 seem so complex (and maybe not even possible) in FCP X...
The thumbnails don't NEED to repeat themselves, it's silly. I've played with the settings at the lightswitch and none of them controls the amount of thumbnails that are displayed. Having all those thumbnails makes it VERY hard to see clip separation. If you call that trying to fit FCP X into FCP 7 then so be it, but it seems pretty logical to me to ask for this option...
Hope you're having a lovely day!

Escape the grasp of Mission Control

My iMac is connected to an HP monitor (primary). Since upgrading to Yosemite, when I launch an application it replaces any application already up. Or, depending apparently on what check boxes I have ticked in Mission Control, launching an application sometimes shoves the existing application to the secondary monitor.
At present I have unchecked everything in Mission Control to no avail. How can I regain control so that I can drag and see windows where I want them without Mission Control interfering?

Ok so you have only one desktop/space. and you're apps are being shoved off to the other monitor
have you looked in your System Preferences/Mission Control settings, you will find several options for altering the
behaviour of apps in spaces, have a look and see which one is best for your needs. Experiment.
I think having more than one desktop/space for individual apps is a great idea
you can have Safari on 1, another for Mail, etc etc and it is easy to switch from one to another
and keeps things a bit more organised.

How do i reposition desktops and full screen apps in the top of mission control?

Full screen apps have there own space and so do desktops, how do i re-order them?

Hi Anthony, hi ya guys!
Actually you can do a bit of a trick to re-arrange a fullscreen apps but there is one thing which you should know - the first screen can't be a fullscreen app screen.
So, here is what you can do.
Example: you have 3 fullscreen apps running on your OS: Pages, iPhoto, Mail.
So you go to Mission Control and you see on the top the first screen which is an empty screen or a screen with any opened apps (not a fullscreen apps) and also you see your fullscreen apps in a row of 3 screens.
So talking about these 3 screens (windows). Your Pages screen is the first fullscreen app window, iPhoto is the 2nd and Mail is the 3rd but you want to make it the 1st. So to do this you need to go to your second window (iPhoto), and press twice the Mail icon in your dock (one click and then another click).
It will make your 3rd screen with Mail to take a place of 1st screen and iPhoto will be moved to the end.
It all should be done while you are in a MC.
Good luck!

I can't drag selected items in to mission control using the 3 finger swipe in 10.7.2

After upgrading to 10.7.2 I cannot drag items from the finder to mission control anymore. I used to select the items I wanted, click to drag and then swipe three fingers to show Mission Control and then drop the items in to the selected app/folder.
Now I can't. And it's irritating.

Made the same post. No one responded, it seems that there are not many users interested in this change for the worse. I'm braking my fingers here trying to move files from mail to desktop... Lousy move Apple, but considering the fact that people are not making a fuss about it it could be that there's something wrong with us .

Why does Mission Control switch to the Desktop 1 without me issuing a command?

This happens to me constantly. I'll be working and not even touching the keyboard and Mission Control, without me doing ANYTHING switches me to Desktop 1. Can anyone tell me how to fix this?

I'm having the same issue. The only thing I can think is that there is something stealing focus back to the main screen. This didn't happen for me prior to upgrading to Mavericks.

Mission Control: How to change the order of the Apps?

OS X Lion
Is it possible, to change the order of the Apps in Mission Control?
When I swipe with my 3 fingers, I first get the Apps, witch I started last.
Any way to change that?
Thanks Mark.

Here is a simple way to use Mission Control just as Spaces:
Let's assume in this example we like to assign iPhoto to Desktop 3 (which in Spaces was called Space 3).
1. Turn off 'Automatically rearange spaces on most recent use
2. Scroll up with 3 fingers simultaneously or launch Mission Control from the Dock. Click on Desktop 3. While you are in Desktop 3 launch iPhoto. Doublecheck with a right click on the iPhoto symbol in the Dock. Choose options. Confirm 'This Desktop'
NOTICE: Apps are automatically assigned to the Desktop / Space where they are launched for the very first time. However you change this by ctrl-click the application's symbol and assign to None than switch to let's stay with Desktop 3 and launch the application from here. From then on it will be assigned to Desktop 3.
NOTICE: Apps in fullscreen mode will temporarily (for the duration they are in fullscreen mode) be assigned to right most Desktops in Mission Control. Once you restore to a window you will find yourself again in its (app's) asigned Desktop.

Is it possible to show the dock bar only in mission control mode?

Hi.
I dont wont to have the dock in my workspace. Can I move the dock to mission control an launch apps from there?
tx
mitschel

You could however maybe trick the Dock by setting the delay rate to some high number, say one hour.
In terminal copy and paste:
defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 3600.00 && killall Dock
To restore the default behavior, enter:
defaults delete com.apple.Dock autohide-delay && killall Dock
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How do i change the secondary click from starting up mission control to standard right click

Downloaded lion but i can't seem to changes the secondary click. The secondary or right click opens up mission control instead of the standard right click menus
Any ideas?

I had the same problem with my 2010 MBA. I plugged in a mouse and changed the preference on the right button to secondary click in the mouse preferences. For some reason it changed the setting on the trackpad from mission control to standard right click as well, even after the mouse is unplugged. So if you have a mouse you might try that. Hopefully Apple will fix this with an update.

MISSION CONTROL, LAUNCHPAD, and FULL SCREEN APPS (one month later)

I'm pretty good embracing a new thing when it comes along. I downloaded LION the day it come out, which was over a month ago at this point. On that day, I immediately found MISSION CONTROL and LAUNCHPAD both uninituitve and pointless. Unhandy iCandy. And of FULL SCREEN APPS? Not necessary on an iMac anyway.
So I quickly sought out quick solutions to 'fix' these new features. Launchpad and full screen apps have the advantage that they can be simply ignored. This is a good thing. Mission Control, on the other hand, got in the way of a beloved feature for me: what was once SPACES and EXPOSE. That is, I couldn't simply ignore MC because I still needed the previous helpful features in Snow Leopard.
My solution was kind of surprising and eye-opening. It's complicated to explain but I thought I'd share. This conclusion is likely best suited for someone not using a small screened Mac. It turns out that most users (with big enough screens) don't really need Mission Control, Launchpad, Spaces, or Full Screen apps.
At all.
Let's go through that conclusion, one by one:
FULL SCREEN APPS
If you have a relatively big screen (20 iMac for instance), why do you need Safari full screen? Unless you intend to sit across the room from the computer, no reason. And there's lots of bright empty space when you do this. Do you need the Mail app full screen? If you need reading glasses, maybe, but otherwise, nope. I find it's easier just to stretch out an app pretty big and leave it at that.
Full screen apps DO offer a nice feature which is making your desktop, menubar, and dock go BYE BYE. I can see where sometimes this is a useful feature, but typically -- NOPE. Typically I want access to my dock (to switch between open apps without the added step of cancelling full screen first), and typically I want access to my menubar so that I can glance up and see what time it is or find an app menu quickly.
The only feature I find worthy of praise with full screen apps is that they hide the clutter on your desktop. But there's an app in the Mac App Store which makes your desktop icons vanish with the touch of a button (CAMOUFLAGE). I mean, what's the point of a wallpaper if you bury it with desktop clutter or eliminate it with full screen apps? If it's a busy and distracting wallpaper, umm... you picked bad wallpaper.
LAUNCH PAD
LAUNCH PAD offers an iOS experience inside OS X. At first I thought it was completely silly. After a month now, I kinda get why it's there. Kinda.
You see, before LP, to duplicate it's functionality, you'd have to organize folders yourself. Put folders of various apps together. Place them somewhere in the finder heirarchy. Then drag those folders into the part of the dock with the trashcan. Then you could click them open and have access to similarly themed folders of apps. The problem here, of course, is that unless you're a power user, you'll never do this.
So Apple thought, AH-HA, we'll just drag into OS X a paradigm that users already get from iOS. Clumping apps together any way you like them. The misfire, if you ask me, is not allowing users to drag the new iOS folders straight into the dock when finished. That is to say: copies of said organized folders. It's as if Apple's software people have complete contempt for the dock -- and are desperate to have users abandon it.
My problem is that I like having folders in my dock of stuff I need. It just works, as Steve says. Going to the same EXACT place every time I need anything is more intuitive and graceful than ADDING an app called Launchpad that launches you into a different finder altogether. Makes zero sense and THIS is why I say, like FULL SCREEN APPS, LP can basically be abandoned.
By the way: need proof that Apple has complete contempt for the Dock?
MISSION CONTROL/SPACES
A month has passed since MC was introduced and SPACES was eliminated. I dare anyone to tell me why either is needed at all. Before you get iMiffed, humor me for a moment and hear me out.
The notion of SPACES was that it's a neat way to keep like minded open apps together. I totally bought into this, back in the day. So much so that I was iMiffed when it was gone in Lion. But let's look at this closer.
The REASON why we needed SPACES was that we could have WAY too many windows open at once on a Mac. Right? A big mess of windows covering each other up. Suppose you're surfing in Safari but need iTunes? But iTunes is hidden. So what did you do? You went to Spaces as step one, moused over to your iTunes space as move two, and then clicked it as move three. Seems like a great solution until the day you discover that you could simply click on iTunes in the dock as move one and arrive at iTunes. As one step. Period. Really simple, right?
Why have Spaces and apps dance around when you can just click the app you want and be done with it? That's the critical observation to make in order to follow my entire line of reasoning. Sure, it may look really cool and make Windows machines look like junk, but at the end of the day, why add two steps to something you might do 100 times a day -- switching between apps.
So why OH why did Apple add Spaces? Simple: because too many apps were visible at once in one 'desktop' window. So if you can build many new desktops, there might only be one or two in each. Great solution. Right?
Wrong, as it turns out. Because we still have the two extra steps. It's a weak solution. And it's in complete contempt of the Dock, which as it turns out, offers the strongest solution.
The strong solution would be that only one app is visible in your Mac's window at all times. Say you're in Safari. Despite having 12 other apps open, you only see Safari. Your dock tells you that you have other apps open, but nothing else sits in your window BUT the app you're using. So you want to go to iTunes? So click on it in the dock and Safari vanishes and iTunes emerges by itself. No other windows. What could be simpler? (This app is freeware known as ISOLATOR.)
If you download and try ISOLATOR, you'll say, umm, okay, but wait: sometimes I do want more than one window in view. Okay, fine, turn it off then. From the handy menu bar menu. I find that 98% of the time I need ISOLATOR on. Mileage may vary.
So let's recap. One third party software removes distracting desktop clutter, the other removes distracting app windows. Both can be toggled on and off from the menu bar. One is free, one costs $2. These two solutions remove the only real feature of FULL SCREEN APPS and make SPACES and it's newfangled cousin MISSION CONTROL pointless.
Need that last one explained? Well, what's Mission Control but a variant of spaces? To invoke MC and switch to the needed window are those same two annoying steps Spaces added into the mix. Nothing was fixed. Plus, like spaces, you must invest time and energy organizing such spaces.
Why bother? And so I ask again: can somebody who's read and tried the above carefully explain to me why Mission Control, Launchpad, and Full Screen Apps are really needed at all? (Outside of small screened Macs.) Doesn't the dock and these two sharewares together solve most problems?
Am I missing something?

I agree with everything you said about full screen apps, mission control and launchpad. For apps that made sense to run full screen, they already could under SL. Launchpad is totally unnecessary and Mission Control is a mere shadow of Expose and Spaces.
However, I feel you have not given due credit to Spaces. The point of Spaces is to let one organise logical desktops for different tasks, not just a way to reduce the number of windows on display. For example, I have a Space for software development where I run Xcode and the iPhone simulator, a Firefox window showing perhaps documentation or some other websites pertaining to software development, a Finder window that is opened in the folder with my design docs. I have another Space where I have the remote login sessions, yet another Space with another Firefox window where I do general surfing and emailing. I can switch between these spaces using a keyboard shortcut, which is much quicker than having to lift my hand off the keyboard, move it over to the mouse, move the mouse pointer over the Dock, find the app and click on it, only to find that it has switched to the wrong window of the app.
Without Spaces, organisation of my desktop is disrupted each time I want to switch task, whereas Spaces allows me to drop everything I am doing, go and do something completely different for a while and go back to my exact previous environment. I have a 27" iMac so am not short of screen space but I use Spaces extensively. BTW, switching Spaces using a keyboard shortcut is a lot faster on SL than the equivalent on Lion, thanks to the gratuitous screen animation of the latter.

OS X Lion's Mission Control is missing key features of Expose

Who else agrees that Apple has missed the mark with Mission Control? It's a seemingly good idea to categorize windows by application in Mission Control, but there is now no way of seeing ALL open windows at once. For instance, I usually have multiple windows open from a single appkication, such as Safari. In Mission Control, I can only view my Safari windows stacked on top of one another and have to click each window individually to see it. Apple, PLEASE bring back the all open windows view that Expose used to have. It is one if the most crucial tools for window management. Until then, I'm going back to Snow Leopard.
Who else agrees that Mission Control should show all open windows, without stacking them on top of one another?

I think some perhaps do not realize that many people miss the actual spaces in combination with exposé. It was quite powerful for those of us that need to constantly access and shift around multiple apps. While I understand there are many users that have adopted the pad mentality, I for one still use a Wacom tablet for everything—including browsing the web—as do many other professionals. Mission Control is a catastrophe for this, and generally for everything within my workflow. Photoshop follows every desktop I move to, which is super annoying, and is a prime example of how much of a joke mission control really is (blame adobe whatever...still horrible). But more importantly, I can drag an app to a desktop, but NOT from a desktop into my current desktop. This is fatal to productivity when working in programming, 3D, compositing, design, etc..
I am pleased to hear there could be some evolution taking place with Exposé; regardless of my personal views. Anything is better than what we have now. A touch pad dominant environment may be the wave of OSX future to many, but to me it's only one step closer to soley using Linux based operating systems.
Sorry for the long post... Hopefully a few of you that have never worked in this way can see how it goes beyond just Exposé from certain perspectives... RIP spaces . Exposé is only partially as good without them imho. Open spaces > then exposé while in spaces mode > move one app to one space, another to another, put anything exactly where you want it, all without closing out—meanwhile being able to see literally every document/app perfectly clear.

Mission Control - What a horrible experience

First off, I am a long time OSX user dating back to the initial release.
Each iteration of the the OS has generally built upon the features of the prior version, and usually included new, exciting, usable features.
Mission Control in Lion adds some new functionality for workspace and application window management. It's another way to get around.
Apple's mistake? Removing Expose and Spaces.
Has a single solitary person at Apple actually used Mission Control on a dual display setup? No - Let me rephrase - I mean have they actually *used* it to get anything done?
While in Mission Control, I can't move a window from the right display to the left? Really? What were you thinking, Apple?
While in Mission Control, I can't see which display on the left goes with which display on the right? How am I supposed to quickly move a window to the right monitor for an application shown on a left monitor? No - Really - Try it.
While in Mission Control, I can't see all of my application windows - Just some lame (and I mean LAME) stack of a couple of windows for the application. Yes, I know I can swipe and see a little bit more, but I can never see all of them.
Expose and Spaces could handle ALL of that above, and did it logically, and without any fuss.
Mission Control isn't just "inconvenient", it is downright painful!
Please - Please - Please - Put the option of Expose and Spaces back. Mission Control may be "cool" for some configurations (laptops, etc), but for those of us who use OSX daily to get work done, it takes a multi-display Mac and makes it useless.
Oh - And full screen apps? Did ANYONE at Apple test that idea on dual display Macs? Did you happen to notice that the full screen app makes the second monitor a fancy paperweight?

I agree too.
This is what I've sent to https://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Feel free to use portions of the text to send your own feedback.
Takes just a few seconds and probably helps to improve Mission Control. At least we have no other chance of pushing things.
Dear Apple,
having used Apple Systems since OS 7, it is a real pain to see, what you have done to the usability of Mac OSX with the switch to Mission Control.
Has anyone of your engineers ever tried to use Mission Control on a dual display setup? I don't think so, otherwise you immediately should have realized, how broken it is:
• You can't move a window from one display to the other.
• You can't move windows between desktops. Instead you first have to go to each source desktop and move the windows from there to your destination desktops.
• Usually you think in "dual display desktops" not in individual left and right desktops. The organization in Spaces, showing left and right display side by side, was logical. In Mission Control you permanently have to match left and right displays of a desktop by reading the desktop number or even worse count their position, aka. 3rd desktop from left.
• You can't use your second display in full screen mode as it only shows a gray pattern. Unbelievable!
I admit, Mission Control and Fullscreen Mode have their place on a MacBook Air, but for a big screen, dual display setup they are completely useless in their actual state.
Currently reverting back to Snow Leopard is the only way to work efficiently with a dual display setup due to these flaws in Mission Control.
I dearly ask you to bring back Spaces to Lion or bring over the missing functionality of Spaces to Mission Control, before Snow Leopard becomes unsupported by current software.
I'm really disappointed, that even in 10.7.2 none of these issues are addressed.

Mission Control is a step backwards

As kids we learn how to organize things and more often than not, the first step is to lay out everything so you can see EVERYTHING. Picking one out of 20 is really EASY for us humans. That's what we learn as kids -- putting stuff together like puzzles. This comes naturally. And Expose+Spaces was just that....
I have been using Mission Control for a a long time now but I can't for the life of me figure out why Apple would ditch something that has worked well in the past.
Mac OS Lion's Mission Control tries to be smart, but its being smart in all the wrong places:
Side swipe is inefficient. I have quite a few apps running in full screen. I get tired of swiping left and right to "locate" my stuff.
Full screen apps and dashboard as tiny thumbnails in mission control? Its a cluster**** (pardon my frustration here) of stuff put together and it confuses me more that the previous expose+spaces.
Apps of the same kind grouped together? Now I have this sinking/uneasy feeling that I can't find what I'm looking for because its not showing me *all* my windows or is buried under some other window. The confidence I had with expose+spaces is now lost.
When Windows came out with Win+Tab functions (that 3D window thing) I always said how really useuless that was when compared to expose especially because it hid 1 window behind another. And fast forward 3+ years, Mac OS X is taking the same step back by grouping all browser windows together.
Expose+Space was simple, uncomplicated and unassuming.
Mission Control is complex, complicated and totally assuming.
Please bring Expose+Spaces back or evolve Mission Control to something like it.
PS-1: Expose of safari should include tabs in the expose view. Why is this so hard? Why do I need to open new safari windows to see it in expose/Mission control?
PS-2: I know there's been feedback around this in this forum and I'm doing my part to make myself heard hopefully by Apple -- I've done the feedback thing already.

Yay! Apple listened, err, I think.
http://osxdaily.com/2012/07/30/expose-mac-os-x-mountain-lion/
You can almost get the old style Expose back with "Group windows by application" turned off in Mountain Lion.
Not entirely quite the same as the old style Expose. But I can live with this. Side swipe is still inefficient and I end up doing this often:
- Swipe left
- Oops, this isn't the right window.
- Swipe up to get Mission Control.
- Find the right window.
Side swipe never gives me the thing I'm looking for and as a result I'm not very confident using it unless I have a single full screen app running. Anyway I have adjusted to use Mission Control instead to switch between full screen apps. Its not all that bad with that setup.
Now, Safari 6 has side swipe and I'm not loving it either. But I guess we'll have to live with it. Anything is better than nothing I guess..

Who agrees the thumbnails in Mission control need to be bigger?

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