Filed under: OS, Freeware, Leopard
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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
MichaelKingery said 10:16AM on 12-22-2007
i swear this is in, or at least i've accidently invoked it with the standard vanilla leopard install...
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Maddles said 3:33AM on 12-23-2007
I have too. It was driving me crazy until it stopped.
Max said 10:22AM on 12-22-2007
Ummmm... Yeah if you just hold an application window at any edge of the screen, it will switch spaces automatically. This "Warp" thing is nothing.
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Orbberius said 10:36AM on 12-22-2007
Umm you might want to read again.
David Macdonald said 10:43AM on 12-22-2007
True, you can drag an application to the edge of the screen and spaces will switch automatically. But with Warp you don't have to drag an app- just go to the edge and Spaces will switch. I don't think this functionality is already built into Leopard. At least I can't find it. Is there a way without Warp?
Josh Schnell said 2:34PM on 12-22-2007
funny how the opening sentence is the exact same formatting as well then...
Josh Schnell said 10:38AM on 12-22-2007
So, is it just me or did you just take that headline from macgasm.net ?
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Mat Lu said 2:23PM on 12-22-2007
It's just you. I'd never heard of macgasm before these comments.
E. said 10:53AM on 12-22-2007
This is a great little utility, not quite as game-changing as Chax, but still damn useful. This kid should be working for Apple.
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w00t said 6:31PM on 12-22-2007
You can press command and an arrow key or command and the space number :)
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Pete Zich said 12:30PM on 12-22-2007
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.
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badtzmaru said 12:45PM on 12-22-2007
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.
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darkfusion said 12:56PM on 12-22-2007
You guys are lazy. Macgasm.net had that up since yesterday. Guess AOL wasn't paying you enough.
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DagMX said 1:55PM on 12-22-2007
you know...everybody discovers it somewhere and not everyone discovers it at the same time...
Pete Zich said 3:44PM on 12-22-2007
Really? Does it really matter if you find out about it hours after it came out? Relax, it's the holidays, give them a break.
Josh Schnell said 5:07PM on 12-22-2007
Its not the posting that is the problem, it's the taking someone else's work and in this case headline and posting as their own intentionally. If they didn't do intentionally, its not a big deal, but if they did... that's a problem. I love this site, and use it all the time, but I do not copy their titles, and descriptions of programs and articles. I really hope they didn't do intentionally, but for the most part, i'm over it.
tevetorbes said 6:29PM on 12-22-2007
Actually, the headline is not exactly the same. Plus, wtf do you expect- the headline is what the program does. Remove panties, unbunch, continue trolling.
At any rate, its neat functionality, I think some are missing the point: if you want to change to the space below the one you are in, you go to the bottom of the screen and it switches, same for left, right top. Its not exactly the same as the hot corners functionality: it IS exactly like the Ctrl+arrow key functionality.
Anywho, your favorite Linux windowmanager has been doing this now and its neat. And the proggie is free, so how can you complain?
robogobo said 11:08AM on 12-23-2007
darkfusion, Josh Schnell, go soak your head. Are you guys the blog police or something. The headlines are not the same, and who cares if one is a day later than the other. you guys need a timeout in the corner.
Cupra said 6:12PM on 12-22-2007
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.
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Anthony said 8:10PM on 12-22-2007
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.
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