Re: Show Desktop

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 30/11/2010, at 7:10 PM, Crisp, Peter wrote:

> Brilliant!!! I love it – option 1 works for me nicely. Option 2 does as well 
> too but requires two hands – so a bit labour intensive J
>  
> Thanks Carlo and others.
>  
> Regards
> 
> Peter…

Another option, which does not involve Expose, is click on the Finder icon in 
the Dock, and press Option-Cmd-H (or use Finder > Hide Others from the Finder 
Menu). This may be preferable if you intend to spend a fair bit of time back at 
the desktop instead of just the quick visit to which the Expose approach is 
more suited.  

Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948

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RE: Show Desktop

[Crisp, Peter]

Brilliant!!! I love it - option 1 works for me nicely. Option 2 does as well 
too but requires two hands - so a bit labour intensive :-)

 

Thanks Carlo and others.

 

Regards


Peter...



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Sent: Tuesday, 30 November 2010 6:41 PM
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Subject: Re: Show Desktop

 

Hi Peter,

 

In Snow Leopard, show desktop is a feature of Exposé. There are a number of 
ways to activate it that I know of, and other members may know of more.

 

1) My favourite, if you have a multitouch mouse pad as found on later MacBooks  
or a magic track pad, is a four-finger swipe upwards. To return all the windows 
one does a four-finger swipe down.

 

2) There is a function key in Exposé to trigger this feature. By default on my 
MBP it is F11. That means that to use it one presses Function-F11 so as not the 
get the volume setting. To return the windows press Function-F11 again. This is 
set to a different key on iMacs and is configurable in Exposé settings.

 

3) If you go to system preference and go to the Exposé settings, one can 
configure a hot corner of the screen to show the desktop. Returning the mouse 
to the same hot corner of the desktop replaces the window.

 

There are likely other methods as well that I am not familiar with.

 

Cheers,

Carlo

 

On 2010-11-30, at 18:17, Crisp, Peter wrote:





Does anyone know the shortcut to "show Desktop"? Its part of the standard 
Windows XP build but puzzled it's not so intuitive with Snow Leopard. I Googled 
it and saw the need to download various non-Apple add-ins but surely its' not 
this complicated. I will do that if that's what's needed but I think I am 
missing something simple here. I even checked 
http://www.danrodney.com/mac/index.html and couldn't see it.

 

Regards

 

Peter..

 



 

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Re: Show Desktop

[cm]

Hi Peter,

In Snow Leopard, show desktop is a feature of Exposé. There are a number of 
ways to activate it that I know of, and other members may know of more.

1) My favourite, if you have a multitouch mouse pad as found on later MacBooks  
or a magic track pad, is a four-finger swipe upwards. To return all the windows 
one does a four-finger swipe down.

2) There is a function key in Exposé to trigger this feature. By default on my 
MBP it is F11. That means that to use it one presses Function-F11 so as not the 
get the volume setting. To return the windows press Function-F11 again. This is 
set to a different key on iMacs and is configurable in Exposé settings.

3) If you go to system preference and go to the Exposé settings, one can 
configure a hot corner of the screen to show the desktop. Returning the mouse 
to the same hot corner of the desktop replaces the window.

There are likely other methods as well that I am not familiar with.

Cheers,
Carlo

On 2010-11-30, at 18:17, Crisp, Peter wrote:

> Does anyone know the shortcut to “show Desktop”? Its part of the standard 
> Windows XP build but puzzled it’s not so intuitive with Snow Leopard. I 
> Googled it and saw the need to download various non-Apple add-ins but surely 
> its’ not this complicated. I will do that if that’s what’s needed but I think 
> I am missing something simple here. I even checked 
> http://www.danrodney.com/mac/index.html and couldn’t see it.
>  
> Regards
>  
> Peter..
>  
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Re: Show Desktop

[mince and pud]

Hi Peter

F11 on ordinary leopard, not sure about snow

best
alastair



On 30/11/2010, at 10:17 AM, Crisp, Peter wrote:

Does anyone know the shortcut to “show Desktop”? Its part of the  
standard Windows XP build but puzzled it’s not so intuitive with  
Snow Leopard. I Googled it and saw the need to download various non- 
Apple add-ins but surely its’ not this complicated. I will do that  
if that’s what’s needed but I think I am missing something simple  
here. I even checked http://www.danrodney.com/mac/index.html and  
couldn’t see it.


Regards

Peter..



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