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.

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Lion Frustrations: Mission Control

Okay, don't get me wrong, I love Lion, however Mission control is driving me crazy. It is mainly because I cannot rearrange desktops (easily at least). I have apps I have opened an put in full screen and it would be so much more user friendly if I could rearrange desktops.
Another frustration is that Mission Control does not play nicely with multiple displays. It would be nice if each desktop would display on a separate display. So desktop 1 would display on my first screen and desktop 2 would be on my second screen, then when I do a three finger swipe it would then switch to displaying desktops 2 and 3. This way makes so much more sense. That would also resolve the issue of full screen apps leaving the second display blank.
I've seen this issue brought up on the web all so often, you would think Apple would get on the ball to fix this.
I almost wish I could write an app that does this. Does anyone have any insight on how to do this? Does anyone know if one like this is already in development? This functionality is crucial to my workflow.

Yeah this is not normal at all...I'm facing the same problem....*** I use this computer to work not to brush tooth to turtles....this is really not normal please fix asap...is impossible to work like this....I miss spaces...

Mountain Lion and Mission Control

I upgraded to Mountain Lion. Since then Mission control freezes on a daily basis and will only reset by doing a computer restart. Anyone else have this problem? Any suggestions?

This happens to me too - I think the problem is somehow related to the screen saver and system sleep. There's an easy remedy:
Go to your System Preferences --> Desktop and Screen Saver. Click on the "Screen Saver" section, and click "Hot Corners". Set one of your hot corners to "Start Screen Saver".
Next time Mission Control fails, just point your mouse to the "Start Screen Saver" hot corner, and wait for the screen saver to start up. When you start working again, Mission Control will be back to normal.
It doesn't fix the problem, but it's whole lot faster than restarting or logging out each time it happens.

Skype 6.22 is okay but missing key features

I almost get the impression that the programmers do not use skype. If they do, they just use it internally amongst themselves because if they did, they would see the features they have removed in the sake of making it easier are in fact making it more difficult.
Point 1: if you are doing any sort of world commerce, you like to know what time the person you are talking to (im or voice) has locally. Case in point, North America is still on daylight saving time where as Europe has already moved their clocks back on hour. Not being able to see if they are still within their "workday" is a problem because you don't know if they are at the time they said you would meet with them. Also, if the person is travelling and you don't know their timezone, seeing that they are sleeping is nice as you don't wake them up at 3 am Hong Kong time when you think they actually in their normal time zone.
Point 2: What happened to the save as when receiving a file. Why do you have to go through many more clicks to save a file now? Whose bright idea was that? Don't they understand that your enhancements ARE SUPPOSED to make things EASIER, not more DIFFICULT.
Point 3: What happened to good UI design? Placing an entry field with the same border colour and background colour as the surrounding background is just plain BAD. Yes, the UI is designed for visually impaired users (the blue colour is a colour good for colour blind users), however, even they will not see the input field area to type in a phone number.

Update to post: After having to revert to my phone to skype while I had a problem with my laptop this morning I noticed the UI of the phone is exactly what I see on the desktop. Hence the problem. The design team needs to get the head out of the sand and see how people actually do things. A phone is not a desktop and a desktop is not a phone. Stop designing things for the lowest common denominator! They have hidden numerous things to try to look and feel like the phone versions. That is just stupid. You would have thought they would have learned from their minders (MS Corporate) grand mistakes with Windows 8. But nope, they have thrown themselves off of the cliff like lemmings. If is as though they have forgotton that they can easily detect what they are building for and how to use conditional compilation. I will bet you a donut, they will not listen to those who actually use this stuff to do things. But as someone who does shell out money for some of the features (long distance calling overseas to non-skype users), I would hope they would listen.
As for the save to, that is a bug in that it should not change the existing settings to something different.

1 OSX Lion Mission Control vs Snow Leopard Expose can't we combine the two (by leaving older Expose options inside) and get Apple back to leaping forward again?

So I am a web/software developer and I am having major beef with OSX Lion's Mission Control. While I think Mission Control and Application Windows are interesting additions to the multi-tasking nature and scheme of the OS, removing the older Expose Spaces and All Windows is a huge mistake. Couldn't Apple have just left all of the old stuff in? Then the system would be complete. As pretty as Mission Control and Application Windows is, the older Snow Leopard Spaces and Expose moved much faster and tamed all of my apps in a very efficient way.
Here is why Mission Control is not as fast as Spaces and Expose:....
1. With Spaces all of the desktops and their connected monitors were consolidated to one monitor in which you can easily see everything going on from a birds eye view. You cloud easily drag open windows between them freely and even swap spaces. This was huge because you could see everything. You could even activate All Windows over Spaces and see everything..Mission Control will group everything but you can't move programs across desktops unless it's the main desktop to the little desktop. Nor can you move windows across monitors. This is frustrating. Also the desktop are split to their respective monitor so I no longer have a birds-eye key-map access.
2. All Windows is so necessary and slick. Mission Control or Application Windows can't quite keep up. If I have a cluttered desktop and hit all windows, I can get any window at any time no matter how buried it is. Application Windows is useful but only applies to the focused application…but what if it's buried? I have to activate mission control first, select one of the windows from the program group, then activate Application Windows to get to that window. Also if there are many windows open for an application, Mission Control cannot replace All Windows because they stack and you can't quite tell which of the windows you want is accessible in that stack.
The bottom line is, put both of them together! Keep the old functionality as an option, because truth be told, the old way of doing things is still considerably faster under heavy work loads. I would use the Snow Leopard expose features more often. There is still room for Application Windows and Mission Control, but even after re-training myself I feel I'm moving at 70% of the multitasking speed that I used to move at before using Snow Leopard Expose. I mean this legitimately, I develop using multiple OS's along with video chat and instead of being a leap forward, Lion is a step backward and that just isn't like apple, everything Apple has done has been leaps and bounds forward. Let's leap forward and not only have all the sweet new features that Lion offers, but combine with the productive features that really moved and maybe just integrate into Lion's style. Bottle that and you have something sweeter than Yoohoo.

I completely agree with airbnboy. I used to be able to quick organised different windows within the same app to different spaces (now "desktops" for no apparent reason). This worked very smoothly in expose/spaces. I'd use one gesture to get to spaces, then another for expose, and I'd have all my windows in all spaces visible.
Now, I can't even see all of my windows in specific to one desktop! The best I can do is double scroll to see *some parts* of the windows on a desktop. So now, selecting a window for a specifc app is huge pain.
Worse than this, on moving windows from a desktop to another in, Mission Control will change the ordering of the stacks (per app, not the windows in the stacks). Umm, what is the possible benefit there?
So, now there is no use of spatial memory - e.g. Window X for App Y was in the top left of all my windows in the top left space, and I want to move it now. It's no longer possible to see all app windows in a specific "desktop", and much more effort is required to move windows around.
Great, well done Apple. Can we please, please have Expose and Spaces back as an option? Or at the very least, some way to view all windows for a specifc app on a specific desktop - and by "view", I mean see the whole window, not just a tiny indicator of the window, or a slightly expanded stack that may not give enough context.
The only reason I "upgraded" to Lion was to get XCode 4.2.

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.

Can't See All Windows in Mission Control

My favorite feature on the mac has always been the ability to see all open windows with a simple click (F3 on my keyboard). I often have multiple word documents and multiple pdf files open, as well as two or three different browser windows, several image files, and who knows what else. It is very common for me to have 10-20 open windows and it was always a huge help to be able to see them all at once, with filenames that would pop up when hovering with the mouse. This feature made it incredibly easy to move from file to file and truly see everything on the desktop at once.
As far as I can tell, this is no longer possible with Lion and Mission Control. Now if I have multiple windows open in a single application and enter Mission Control I see them tiled over one another, without filenames displayed for any. Sure, I can see all the applications I have open, but what good is that if I can't see which files I have? It's making it very difficult to work effectively-- basically I have to minimize each window one by one until I find the one I want.
Am I missing something? Can anyone using Lion tell me how to see a graphic representation of ALL open windows, with filenames? Like I could in the good old days? Or is there something like a "see all open files" ability in Finder?
Thanks!

I know what you mean - it was nice to see all the windows.
Tell Apple here: Apple - Mac OS X - Feedback
To mitigate this problem there is "App expose" which lets you see all open windows for any given application.
And, in Mission Control you can spread a given application's windows a little further apart or you can preview any given window within Mission Control.
How you do all that stuff depends on how you've configured mouse, keyboard and trackpad. For example, on my trackpad, to spread MC windows a bit I slide two fingers up (with cursor over the group of windows). To preview a given window, I put the cursor over the window and hit the space bar. For me, App expose can be activated by 4 fingers down for the frontmost app, and four fingers down with the cursor over the chosen app in the dock.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4689
charlie

Mission control slow and top bar vanishes

A month ago it started that my mission control suddenly began to "lag". Moving a window would take a few seconds longer than the courser needed und if make a few quick circles with it I can see it swirling around for almost a whole minute. Also my windows won't slowly transist to theire place in mission control and back again. One second they are in full view and the next they are in mission control mode. Fact is: that lag is not normal and it's very diffcult to work with.
This phenomenon happens all the time (rebooting won't solve the problem) except once or twice a week where both animations work perfectly. Only manco: My top Mission control bar is gone. I can still go from space to space with my trackpad gestures but I won't see where I am going.
Further information: I have a fairly new MacBook Pro (2.3 GHz Intel i7, 8 GB RAM) and an OS X Lion update. An update which worked well till a few weeks back.
I hope you can help me.

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.

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..

Turn back the app history within Expose/Mission Control, Turn back the app history within Expose/Mission Control

For some wierd reason & can't remember if I toyed with the settings under System Preferences but it looks like when I swipe with four fingers down within an app for expose I don't get to see all the previously viewed items with the app. Any suggestions?

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.

Screen jumping in Mission Control after wake

I have a mid 2012 Macbook Air running Lion. It's a fantastic machine and I'm enjoying using it very much. One small issue that I've noticed occurs over half of the time after I wake it from sleep, either by opening the clamshell or hitting the keyboard/mouse click. I usually have two desktops and a few full-screen apps open in mission control, and what happens is immediately after wake the screen switches from whatever desktop or app I was using to some other desktop or app, as if I'd swiped the trackpad left/right with three fingers. This is kinda frustrating because the app that I was last using is usually the app I want to use when the computer wakes up again and so I have to go into Mission Control and navigate back to it.
I've searched google and various support forums using keywords like "Mission Control wake switching problem", but have come up short. I can't be the only one experiencing this, can I?
The only other factor that might be relevant is that I migrated all the data from my 2008 Macbook running Snow Leopard to this Macbook Air running Lion. Maybe some of my Exposée/Spaces preferences are interfering invisibly with Lion's Mission Control? I think thats how I've still got double-tap-and-hold to drag enabled, which I am very happy about.
Thanks for any attention or help you can offer.

I googled so many iterations of terminology for the issue for so long before coming across this. I have an 11" air on ML and have this issue. I didn't notice the issue under lion, but it has been there since I upgraded to ML and persisted through all updates. I just did the 2nd air update to bringing my system to OS X 10.8.2 (12C3006).
After I put it to sleep, it's set to wait 5 minutes before requiring password.
Sometimes it's hard to reproduce at will, but it seems to occur after the Macbook has been asleep for at least 15 or 20 seconds and will happen until some indeterminate time thereafter (or in my case 5 minutes max, but still not always that long, and never after requiring pass).
My screen either shifts back to the main desktop or one fullscreen app/desktop to the left (no discernible pattern on that one).
Nothing shows up in console as this occurs that seems related.
I had some other complaints about airplaying video and general graphics performance (my late 08/2009 13" macbook performs subjectively better despite being objectively only 50-75% as fast), so after doing everything conceivable to troubleshoot the issue (including multiple re-formats and re-installs), I took it in.
Since this was the only thing I could readily reproduce that was outright wrong (they wouldn't even look at airplay and dismissed UI stutter), everything was based on this. We couldn't reproduce it on the others in store after setting them up identically, so they said they'd take it to check further. Initially they did nothing but a diagnostic and tried to give it back to me (I had to wait three days with no contact for that!). The girl claimed they had made some sort of software change, but after I got it home, it was readily apparent that they'd done nothing. I brought it back in that same evening (somewhat irked at that point), and they took it back promising they'd send it off to the next tier or whatever and make sure I was in the loop along the way. After several more days with no contact they tell me it's ready. This time they say they've changed the logic board (which I'm inclined to believe they did since I got an email saying my account had been logged into by a 13 inch air right after I reinstalled and put in iCloud info — are the mobos the same size between the two?) They did that and gave it back to me, rattled off some bs about it "probably being within specification" (aka "we don't know; please go away"), and sent me on my way.
Yet again I was able to reproduce, so I reformatted again. Issue seemed to be gone, but I just noticed it back again. Initially I thought I had traded issues. After the replacement my screen stays black for 15-20 seconds after trying to wake before giving pass screen (only after it's been asleep long enough to enter standby).
So after all of that, unless there's an issue with the SSD, this would seem to be purely a software bug, and one specifically with ML at that. I don't believe there's third party influence because I've been able to reproduce on almost completely clean installs of ML. I'm pretty sure I've done it on completely clean, but I know for a fact I've reproduced it with only Chrome and Pages installed. The only other thing that could be of influence is that I synced iCloud stuff, but when I took it to Apple store we created a new user and were able to reproduce there.
This bug is particularly irksome because I shut my macbook any time I think I'll be leaving it alone (for battery), but am somewhat inclined to open it again for something right as the window starts for this to happen (but not long after unless I'm going to wait more than 5 minutes, which is why I'm not sure how long the window is).
So I know a lot of this is ranting, and ultimately doesn't really help, but I didn't just want to say "me too."

Missing minimized windows in Mission Control

Mission Control - in general - is something I like most about the new Mac OS Lion. But there is one thing missing:
since Mission Control attempts to give a total view of all desktops and all windows inside them or generally an overview of everything currently running, the minimized windows should definitely be part of Mission Control.
Since the minimized windows do not belong to a cerstain desktop, there should be a nice horizontal line at the bottom of the Mission Control overview and all the minimized windows under this line.
What do you think of it?

App Expose is fine if you knew the window you were looking for was minimized, instead of hidden behind another window.
Also you need to be in that app to bring up its minimised windows - which is irritating if you are using more than one app to manipulate files.
Consider this: http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

How can i use my pictures for Mission Control Spaces in Lion?

How do I get a chosen selection of my own photos to be available for use as desktop pictures, with a different one for each Space in Mission Control in Lion?
I have a new Macbook Air, Thunderbolt display and Lion.

As long as your Office for Mac is 2011, you will have no problems using the programs. If it is the Office for Mac 2008 version, there have been some mixed reviews. 2004 will not work at all.
I have the 2011 version and have not had any problems since upgrading to Lion.

Indesign cs6 menu and tool bar disappear between windows using mission control in mountain lion

heres 2 screen grabs before and after. while navigating between 'spaces' using mission control in mountain lion. issue - the menu and tools bars disappear - not all of them just parts of them. to get back i hit 'tab' button twice which hides and shows tools. very annoying - does anyone know of a fix or is this another bug which i have to live with. im using a macpro june 2012/running 10.8.4 and 2 screens - left for artboard - right for all tool windows.

thanks steve - yes that works as does using the tab key - all well....until i move to another 'space' and then come back again.
for example: my setup is like this - no2 space has indesign project. no3 space has photoshop. so im working on a page within indesign and i need to edit an image- i double click the pic and it opens in photoshop on the other 'space' save the file and go back to indesign to update pic and find menu/tools all over the place - so hit tab twice back to normal - until i 'move' out of that space into another - photoshop/ mail/ whatever - as i toggle between spaces the indesign menu will always be 'corrupt' for a better word. hope that makes sense.

I have a MacBook and I recently upgraded to Lion, but I can't do everything Lion has to offer. For example I can't do the 3 finger slide up gesture to go to mission control it won't go? Why?

I have a MacBook and I recently upgraded to Lion, but I can't do everything Lion has to offer. For example I can't do the 3 finger slide up gesture to go to mission control it won't go? Why?

To see which model you have go to the Apple in the upper left corner and select About This Mac, then click on More Info. When System Profiler comes up check the Model Identifier.
For MacBooks it's only the Late 2008 model 5,1 Aluminum Unibody and the Late 2009 model 6,1 and Mid 2010 model 7,1 White Unibody that have the multi-touch trackpad.

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