Mac 101: Spaces for your screen and brain

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I tried to use spaces when we first got Leopard here at work, but unfortunately it makes Final Cut crash at least once a day. So no virtual desktops for me...

Dockland software's free Spacesuit http://www.docklandsoft.com/spacesuit/
enables adding a separate background for each window. It also shows a name for each space when switching.

-john

I don't use spaces nor expose'. It depends on how we work on the computer. I work in a linear fashion running only one application at a time before moving to something else. Not many windows open at the same time so not much jumping around.

Spaces is indeed Expose on steroids but it has added some weird behaviours to Firefox - apparently this problem of losing focus when it comes to the front has been around for some time and remains unfixed. Also, after minimizing FF, I have the problem of it not coming back at all even though it is in the dock and running. When I control click on the dock icon it shows a check mark beside a "page" with no title - as I said weird. It has made using FF inconvenient. Turning off spaces has had no effect.

I love Spaces but it has many bugs in it. Windows that get stuck behind other windows, dialog boxes that cannot be accessed anymore. It's true that a lot of apps cause this behaviour (especially Office 2008). But even some of Apple's own applications don't work well with it, like iTunes.

I love spaces. I have it set up for 9 separate spaces. I have specific apps assigned to eight of them with the center space left blank.

The only thing I don't like is how some apps need to grab the system and switch the system to their space. Illustrator is particularly bad about this.

I will often open a file that I know I am going to need in few minutes - because I want it ready when I need it. In the mean time I want to be working in PhotoShop. Illustrator keeps grabbing the screen and switching back to its space.

We shouldn't forget that Unix users have had this for a decade and for a long time it was one of the most wanted features in osx. I love spaces and use it as a natural part of my work. As someone pointed out, it is faster to ctrl->arrow than to apple-tab ten times or exposé and pick something up with the mouse. I've found that exposé works great when I tie it to the middle mouse button.

Spaces allows me to fullscreen mail.app on space #3 and fullscreen my programming editor on space #2. As everything else in this world, you just need to learn how to make it part of your routine. Then it works.

Does anyone know if there is a way to put different desktop icons (folders, files) on different spaces?

The only reason I'm not using Spaces all the time is because that annoying Office:Mac 2008 glitch.

They really need to fix that, because it drives me nuts!!!