No spaces in mission control

Hi,
I upgraded to lion about 3 days ago. All was fine, until today. when I try to launch mission control, no spaces will appear. Only the top bar will disappear. Does anyone know how to fix the problem? Thanks!

This seems to be a continuous problem for me and it drives me crazy. I love using Mission Control when it works, but sometimes it just won't launch and new spaces aren't available. At this point, I have to reboot my computer and keep my fingers crossed that it will work afterwards. I believe MacFixIt had an article about this very issue.

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Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem solved sooner.
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And when I did try and swipe through full screen apps I briefly got this. See image below. (note the menu bar icons top right)
Before going to a blank grey screen.
If the problem comes back I will tru the killall dock command.
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almost2good wrote:
How can I make Lion show a space number on the top of the screen so I can see which space I am in?
Currently you cannot.
almost2good wrote:
How can I make Lion switch spaces in a ring? ie? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1, 2, 3, ...
You cannot organise Mission Control's "Desktops" this way. They are organised in a single row to allow the swipe gestures to work. Apple allows no way to customise this.
almost2good wrote:
How can I make lion switch directly to a numbered space? ie: 1, 4, 5, 2, etc...
By deafult you should be able toi switch by pressing ctrl plus the desktop number, e.g. ctrl+1. This is the same as Spaces in Snow Leopard. You can customise this under System Preferences (Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Mission Control).
almost2good wrote:
Without these three capabilities Mission Control is a giant step backward....I am disappointed in the way it works and would liketo know how to disable it and give me back the way spaces used to work.
A lot of people are disapointed with Mission Control. In my opinion it's a step backwards from Spaces & Expose in Snow Leopard but peoples views on this will depend if they used Spaces & Expose in Leopard/Snow Leopard and the type of Mac they are using - it makes some sense on a Macbook Air, for example, with a small screen and multi-touch trackpad but not so much on an iMac or Mac Pro (sames goes for Launchpad). I just hope Apple listens to the criticism and enables customisation options to change the way Mission Control behaves.

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At least now we can have up to 16 spaces.
Work in multiple spaces
When projects pile up and your desktop becomes cluttered, you can use Spaces to organize your windows into groups. For example, create a space for work, another for games, and a third for chatting and checking email messages.
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Enter Mission Control using one of these methods:
From a trackpad, swipe up using three or four fingers.
From the keyboard, press the Mission Control key. If your keyboard doesn’t have a Mission Control key, press F9 (Fn-F9 on portable keyboards).
Move the pointer toward the upper-right corner of your screen.
To add a space, click the Add button (+). You can add up to 16 spaces.
To leave Mission Control, swipe again, or press the key you used to enter Mission Control.
HideMove from one space to another
Do any of these:
Swipe left or right with three fingers to scroll through your spaces.
Enter Mission Control, and then click the space you want to use.
Press the Control key and the number key for the space you want. For example, press Control-3 to go to Desktop 3.
Press the Control key and an arrow key to scroll through the spaces.
HideMove a window from one space to another
Do any of these:
Drag the window to the edge of your screen and pause; after a moment, the window is switched to the next space.
Move the pointer over the window, and hold down the mouse button while pressing the Control key and an arrow or number key.
From the space that has the window you want to move, enter Mission Control. Then drag the window itself (not the thumbnail image) up to the space you want to use.
HideDecide which spaces to use with particular applications
If you work in multiple spaces, you can assign applications to particular spaces.
Press and hold an application’s icon in the Dock. You may have to first open the application from Launchpad to see its icon in the Dock.
From the shortcut menu that appears over the icon, choose one of these:
To have the application open only in the current space, choose Options > This Desktop. From now on the application will open in the current space; if you are working in a different space, the application’s space scrolls into view.
To have the application open in every space, choose Options > All Desktops. From now on, when the application is open it will appear in every space.
To have the application open in the whichever space you are currently using, choose Options > None.
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Delete a space
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From a trackpad, swipe up using three or four fingers.
From the keyboard, press the Mission Control key. If your keyboard doesn’t have a Mission Control key, press F9 (Fn-F9 on portable keyboards).
Move the pointer over the the space you want to delete. After a moment a delete button (x) appears on the space.
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No offence, but just to be sure...
When you click on the '+' button over there on the right-hand side of the MC window, you ARE then clicking in the new thumbnail that shows up, and not just exiting MC back into your current desktop, right?

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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.

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