How to see all open windows at once?
It use to be that in OSX I could hit F3 and all of the open documents on my screen would spread out so I could see everything at once. Now with the new OS, F3 just makes every open window pile up according to what application its from. This is NOT an improvement! Is there a way that I can get around this. I often have 10 or more files open in Photoshop and I need to be able to see them all at once in order to make selections or see what has been gathered.
Did some testing -
Normally I use a wired keyboard. On it, F10 spreads the application's windows.
When I turn my wireless keyboard on, F10 on it is indeed the Mute function. But, at the same time F10 on the wired keyboard still spreads windows.
Hmm, this could cause a lot of confusion....
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people! and
hey, for all i know, i'm the one who's not an average user. i
was
pretty much just saying that i can see how that's something
Firefox
would think to do, but not necessarily a program like
Dreamweaver. but i
agree that it would be a useful feature in lots of programs.
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you're
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d_macman wrote:
> To respond to both...
>
> courtney (n h c)... I must not be the average user then.
We have many sites,
> and I do a LOT of development, and many times, I may
have several pages with
> several includes on a page. IE, for a form page, I may
have 10-12 pages total
> (including headers, footers, java, PHP process pages,
etc) and to work out the
> processes and for development, I may create several
versions depending on the
> problems I run into.So to not go nuts, I would LOVE to
save the batch of pages
> out, and then be able to re-open them all at once.
Making it easy to jump in an
> out of a test section (I have them saved in a site, and
dont want to make
> second sites just for this purpose).
>
> Not to mention, leaving work and coming back in and
finding out the power went
> out over the weekend and my machine shutdown (and yes, I
have a UPS, but it
> wont run the system for that long).
>
> So, you see why I would like to save them as batch, like
Firefox, way easier.
>
> Murray *ACE* ...
>
> I will try that, I did not even know that was there. Way
cool ! I hope it
> works, especially for power outages, like I mentioned
above!
>
> Thanks all,
>
> Don
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