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Warp: change Spaces with your mouse

Kent Sutherland, the developer of the well-known Chax, a utility for making iChat easier to use, has a nice new utility for improving Leopard's Spaces virtual desktops as well. Warp is a preference pane allows you to switch between Spaces just by hovering the mouse cursor on the screen edge. You can set the switch delay as well as require a modifier key if you prefer. In some ways this is such a natural addition that it's disappointing that it wasn't built into Spaces from the beginning.

Warp is a free download, but donations are requested.

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Kent Sutherland, the developer of the well-known Chax, a utility for making iChat easier to use, has a nice new utility for improving...
 

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Mohamed Medhat

Warp is a Leopard (Spaces) must.

Who wants to press F8, or Ctrl + arrow. You only have one hand for casual computing :-)

Warp works by dragging your mouse to the four side (not corners - as the developer took care not to mess with your hot corners setup) of your screen and this way you can navigate your spaces according to their geographical relations to each other.

In the preferences pane, don't forget to check an additional button with the mouse warp to avoid accidental space shift.

It's a perfect spaces modification. Very handy. I chose command with the mouse warp because I have a programmable wireless (microsoft!) mouse and a side button (the one for zoom out) did the trick :-) Extremely neat :-)

And it's totally FREE.

December 23 2007 at 11:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Walter Lawrence

It seems like this would be good for someone with an apple mouse, but if you've already got a mouse with more buttons, try putting spaces on one of the buttons. I've got two thumb buttons on my mouse, and i have one as spaces, and the other as expose. It works fantastically for switching applications and windows. If only my apple mouse had all those buttons!

December 26 2007 at 4:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Mohamed Medhat

Also I discovered later that you can set one of your hot display corners to launch spaces.

As far as mouse (extra) buttons goes I always set them to Zoom ++ and Zoom --. This is by far one of the most handy features in Mac OS X.

December 26 2007 at 4:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
robogobo

Wow, I haven't seen this much flaming on TUAW before. Holiday stress relief? Sheesh, go spike your eggnog and chill.

December 23 2007 at 11:01 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mark borga

I think this app is a good idea and may get me to finally use Spaces.

Also, I applaud these two great quotes from this string of comments:

"Remove panties, unbunch, continue trolling."

"I know to an extent aesthetics are subjective, but your new space theme makes me want to take a stroll out an airlock."

December 23 2007 at 4:06 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
steve

i don't think "app name: functionality" is really cause for screaming plagiarism, folks...

...however i wouldn't mind if tuaw did take a cue from macgasm's attempt at a leopard theme. i know to an extent aesthetics are subjective, but your new space theme makes me want to take a stroll out an airlock.

December 22 2007 at 9:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Anthony

Sounds cool. My current scheme is using the mouse wheel left and right to move between spaces on the horizontal and using the 4th and 5th mouse buttons on the side of my mouse to jump thru spaces vertically.

December 22 2007 at 8:10 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Cupra

I installed it and I didn't like it. When I am in another space and trying to get to Camino in space one it doesn't move to space one like it did before this. It's a nice idea, I don't like it though.

December 22 2007 at 6:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
darkfusion

You guys are lazy. Macgasm.net had that up since yesterday. Guess AOL wasn't paying you enough.

December 22 2007 at 12:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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badtzmaru

Hmm...When I move my mouse to the bottom right corner of the screen, I can switch spaces. The functionality is there, though not customizable as this app makes it.

December 22 2007 at 12:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Pete Zich

Hey, steve, shut up, ok? This is The Unofficial APPLE Weblog, these are mac people, and I don't think any of us are willing to switch to vista after seeing the numbers of people downgrading.
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Back on the subject:
That icon for Warp is beautiful, too bad the app doesn't seem to useful for me.

December 22 2007 at 12:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
pnarse

You can press command and an arrow key or command and the space number :)

December 22 2007 at 11:37 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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