Show All Windows through Dock

I'm sure there is an easy answer to this...
When I was using SL, I could click and hold on an app in the dock to bring up expose all the windows for that app alone. I can't seem to do that in Lion. I have to click and then select Show All Windows.
Is there a way for me to open it they way I used to in SL? I do have Mission Control enabled in Lion if that's what causing my issue.

The issue was related to Spaces.
Machine was migrated from 10.6.8 to 10.7.5 and it looks like the Finder prefs and/or the Spaces prefs were corrupted.
I deleted both preference files and all seems to be ok now.

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Hey everyone!
In Snow Leopard you had this amazing feature that when you push and hold the mouse button on an active application in the dock, all the windows of that application would pop up beside each other.
Doing so in Lion just generates a sub-menu, where you have to click the "Show All Windows" yourself.
Is it possible to get the Snow Leopard function in Lion?
Thanks!

I dont use the Trackpad, just a mouse. Moments after I typed it, the answer was suggested already:
CTRL+Mission Control button does exactly what I want.
Is it possible to reconfigure this shortcut to the Snow Leopard way? (Pushing and holding the mouse button on an app in the dock for the same results)
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Show all windows of application with a long click

Does anyone know if there's a setting that will allow you show all of the windows of a specific application with a long click of the application's icon in the dock? I know I could do this in Snow Leopard just by clicking the icon. In Lion I need to right click on the icon and select "Show All Windows" which is a bit annoying.
Thanks.
Terry

sdevan wrote:
Right click on an application's icon in the dock. Select Show All Windows.
He knows it already LOL (have a look at the original post):
In Lion I need to right click on the icon and select "Show All Windows" which is a bit annoying.

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iPhoto will not load the iPhoto library. When I select "show all windows" the library does appear but cannot open it. I am on version 8.1.2 and using Maverick.

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Hello.
What you’ve used and loved as Expose and Spaces is now called “Mission Control”.
http://appleslut.com/blog/software/osx-lion-mission-control

Ibooke freezes when minimizing or using expose to show all windows

I have a bought a refurbished ibook from the mac refurb site 2 weeks ago, no other hardware, and have only installed office 2004.
It freezes often when several windows are open and i use expose to show all windows (approx 1 time in 2), and also when i minimise a window if a few apps are open. (approx 1 time in 3 or 4)
When frozen it just hangs & shows rotating disk & only way out is to restart using power button.
I Have tried hardware tests & disk utility etc...
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Would prefer to resolve myself as opposed to sending back on guarantee as I need it daily..
THANKS

furthermore..
i have spent so much time trying to sort this out over the past week that my girlfriend has given me an ultamatum;
either the computer goes... or she goes...
has anyone else discovered that buying an ibook has had such a dramatic effect on thier relationship? and has anyone got any suggestions how to resolve this?
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Weird. My "Kind" list is Any, Applications, Documents, Folders, Images, Movies, Music, PDF, Presentations, Text, Other.
I tried enabling and disabling various kinds in the Spotlight preferences pane. Although that changed the set of results (as you'd expect) it had no effect on the set of items shown in the "Kind" list.
Wonder what's happening here?

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What should be in each spot??
Whatever you use the most. As an example I'm right handed to I set the button on the right to Seconday Button so I can take advantage of the menus available for going back a page, reloading a page, etc., when right clicking.
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Is there a way to make Exposé show all my windows from all application from all my spaces. And I mean using the "All Windows" feature, not the "Application Windows".
This is really the only thing I miss in OSX. (I'm a new user)
Thanks in advanced!
Kaji.

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Switching from Windows to Mac OS X,
Basic Tutorials on using a Mac,
Mac 101: Mac Essentials,
Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts,
Anatomy of a Mac,
MacTips, and
Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Snow Leopard Edition.
Additionally, *Texas Mac Man* recommends:
Quick Assist,
Welcome to the Switch To A Mac Guides,
Take Control E-books, and
A guide for switching to a Mac.

Mission Control (Mac OS 10.7.2) does not show all windows

I would like to see all windows. both those that are minimized and those that are not minimized
Mission Control seems not to show the minimized windows

You might try https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Unable%20to%20download%20or%20save%20files?s=firefox+download+unknown+error&r=0&e=sph&as=s#w_choose-a-valid-download-folder-in-safari-preferences or some of the other suggestions on that article.

Show ALL open windows in dock?

I'm a recent convert from Windows to Mac and one of the things that's completely driving me nutts is that I work with many windows open all day long, constantly switching back and forth and in Windows this was simple, EVERY window I had running had a space / button (whatever) in the taskbar, so when I switched back and forth all I had to do was a simple click on the window space in the task bar and poof, I was back in that window.
In OSX I'm finding this is not the case and it's driving me BONKERS!
I'm now having to constantly minimize the windows I'm in, or do the mission control thing, to get back to a window...just a pain in the butt when I need to switch back and forth constantly all day long.
Is there anyway to set OSX to behave the same way windows does in this manner?
I know it shows the APPLICATION in the dock, but it doesn't seem to show all windows for a given application...?
Thanks in advance!

Actually, ultimately this is not a solution for me. Been doing it since you recommended it but here's the problem.
I usually work with 3-4 browser windows open, often 1-2 of those are "pop-ups" from other browser windows (for databases I work in), then Outlook (2011 Mac version). When working with emails I'm usually pulling information from browsers and copying/pasting into emails, or links, or something...some sort of information (I use the clipboard CONSTANTLY) and in Windows, a single click on the button for the window I want back into focus and I'm there. In OSX, hold option, click, hold, mouse up to selection click again...
See the difference? Quick single one handed click and I'm done in Windows, in OSX it's 5 steps with two hands...
Not nearly as easy/fluid...there's got to be a way, or a third party app or something to do this?

How do you show all open windows in all applications?

Previous to Lion, I used to be able to go to a hot corner and all of the open windows in all applications would appear neatly side by side. Now I get stacks of windows grouped by application. How can I go back to the old way where every window was visible? This is helpful in Photoshop when I need to see all of the images I am working on and all of the images on my website in Safari.

You don't have a hot-corner for that anymore.
You use a gesture for that now. You can either 4-finger swipe down, or place the tips of your fingers in the center of your track pad. Your fingers should be bunched up and touching each other. To show all windows, expand your fingers, as if you were showing someone "5" on your fingers.

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Go to
 > System Preferences > Keyboard
Click on the 'Keyboard' tab and hit the 'modifier keys...' button. You can see and change the defaults there.
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Can you explain more what the problem is and what you want to see.
All windows are shown by default, unless you minimize them, so I'm confused at what you are asking.

Opening all windows from minimise in Lion, instead of 1

Hello, I have multiple windows open in Textedit and Chrome, in Lion. I minimise them. Then when I click on the 'textedit' or 'chrome' icon in the dock at the bottom, instead of all of them opening like they used to, only one does. To see the other windows I either right click on the icon, and it gives me a list, or I click on 'show all windows' but that only lets me select one.
Is there any way, of opening/displaying all the minimised windows at once, by clicking on the dock icon below?

what you want to do instead is Hide the app.
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