Mission Control and the dock -- strange behavior

Go to Mission Control and click on an open application's dock icon: Lion acts very erratically. It might switch the right app. It might switch to some other app.
Note: Have a couple of full-screen apps, like Safari, Mail or iTunes, open.
This is driving me crazy. Since the dock isn't displayed in full-screen apps, I tend to do the four-finger-up gesture to get to the Mission Control screen to get to the dock to switch to another open app. I recognize that there are other ways to switch apps, but shouldn't this way work work, too?

I feel your pain. "Over 250 exciting new features" was the promise. I, literally, have found ZERO new features that are useful. Yes, that's right---not a single one.
And for the record....I am a long-time Apple fan, and Apple addict. My first computer was in 1985 and it was an Apple. Every computer ever since has been Apple. I've never had a complaint---until now. I'll just say it in plain English---Lion is GARBAGE. I have found absolutely, positively, nothing useful about it---zip, zero, nada! Now I'm trying to figure out how to get rid of this junk and put Snow Leopard back on. Apple should be ashamed---this is pitiful. And my computer has NEVER EVER crashed before (well, okay..I'm sure it has at some point over the last 26 years..but I don't recall when). But now my computer crashes at least 3 times per day. Un-fricking-believable.

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There are a few ways to do this, I guess. I could build a second viewcontroller/tabcontroller that comes on or leaves when "more" is touched. Is there a surer way of doing this? I'm sure I'm missing something basic, but I've googled my brains out on this one and just can't see it.

You could use one TabbarController with 8 ViewControllers, and rotate them when the More tab is tapped:
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I would constantly get the same messages - There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and could not be repaired. And I would get a blank page when I tried to print the pdf if I tried printing from the Safari web page using File - Print from the top toolbar on my laptop.
Then I came across the grey Safari lozenge with action icons.
This allowed me, without downloading the pdf, to print the pdf file direct from the Safari page by using the Print icon on the grey lozenge that appears centrally three quarters down the screen.
Then I discovered that if I save the pdf using the Save icon from this same grey lozenge on the Safari page I can open and print this pdf version from my desktop.
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Have you went to Bose"s support site?
Sometimes this works
- Reset the iOS device. Nothing will be lost
Reset iOS device: Hold down the On/Off button and the Home button at the same time for at
least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appears.
- Reset all settings
Go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset All Settings.
All your preferences and settings are reset. Information (such as contacts and calendars) and media (such as songs and videos) aren’t affected.
- Restore from backup. See:
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- Restore to factory settings/new iOS device.
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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 .

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If you have an external drive with an OS X Time Machine backup, then do restore of your last backup. If you have an external drive with a bootable clone of your previous system, you can boot to that clone and re-clone the OS X on your external drive back to your Mac's internal drive.
If you do not have either of these available, then the reverting/restoring process becomes much more complicated and involves purchasing an external drive and backing up your current system to that drive, then erasing, reformatting your hard drive and now your only options to installng an OS X version is doing a clean install of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, then upgrading, again, to either OS X 10.7 Lion or 10.8 Mountain Lion. OS X 10.9 Mavericks is no longer available for download and Apple has not made OS X 10.9 Mavericks available in any other form to be able to redownload and install.
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I am not running or using Yosemite, so I cannot help you with your Yosemite issues,
There are others here who can help you with Yosemite.
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All of a sudden my right command and right option keys are functioning as shortcuts for mission control and show desktop respectively. I haven't changed anything and can't seem to find any shortcut option in system preferences to change it. Control + up still works for mission control as default, and F11 is still show desktop. Left command and left option are working as normal.
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B.

Hello benja_d
That is an interesting issue with the keyboard. To help isolate the issue, open up the Keyboard view to see if there are any keys being held down while you are typing to see if that is the issue. You will also will want to try this in another user on your computer to see if it something that is User specific or system wide. Let me know if you have figured out this part and I can help you further.
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I have my iPhone 4s plugged into a dock and the dock connected to an amplifier with 2 speakers and a bass, the problem is that the amplifier doesn't have a volume changer and when i plug in the iPhone into the dock the iPhone´s volume bar disappears and im not allowed to change the volume and its very loud. how can i change the volume? is there an app? any ideas??(my dock doesnt have infrared remote controller )
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