Getting Organized with Spaces
Upon getting my Mac, Spaces was one of the first things I checked out. I had tried Virtual Desktops in Windows and Linux, but never found them to be too terribly helpful. Not to mention I used a dual monitor setup with my Windows machine, so I felt I had plenty of room for things.
Despite having a nice big 24″ screen, I have often felt my desktop to be cramped and cluttered; especially coming from a dual monitor setup. So the idea of Spaces seemed perfect, except using the keyboard shortcuts felt too slow and like to much work just to get to another application or space. (F8 + Click on a space OR Cmd + Arrow) So this tip from Mac Os X Hints sounded like the perfect solution. Although they don’t actually offer a tip on how to do it (just the tip to do it), this is what I’ve done:
1. Assign Spaces to use the Cmd + Arrow keys too switch between Spaces.
2. Use SteerMouse to assign the right and left mouse scroller to use those combinations (Cmd + Right Arrow) (Cmd + Left Arrow)
3. There is no three!
I’m using 6 spaces now, for web browsing, coding, FTP, RSS Feeds, iChat and iTunes.
Any other suggestions on a good/better way to do the key assigning let me know!
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If your feeling egalitarian about it, grab a shuttle controller (several models out there from $50 to $120) and program that to switch spaces. I’m looking at he contour shuttle express. It has 4 or 5 buttons on it besides the dial, so I can program context specific functions into it. Hold down the left button and spin to change spaces, no button is volume, scub the playhead in pro tools or imovie . . .
No pci or agp slots means no imacs or mac minis for me. One monitor is just cramped.
You tried ubuntu yet Drew?
Do’h I can’t spell anything anymore. Gimme a login so I can edit my poorly spelled comments . . .
I added drewjoh as a user on systematic for guest contributions.
That’s a great idea, I’ll have to look into that a shuttle controller, and it would be really nice to have for video editing.
I agree about the Mac Pro vs iMac or Mac Mini; but I’m not quite wealthy enough to get a Mac Pro and a nice monitor or two. Maybe I could sell my PC and start saving, eh? lol
I do have the 24″ iMac which really helps having the 1920 x 1200 resolution.