Mac OS X Leopard - ARCAism

CHAPTER 3 USING SPOTLIGHT, EXPOSÉ, SPACES, AND DASHBOARD 45
Figure 3-12. Spaces is set up in the Exposé & Spaces pane of System Preferences.
By default Spaces is set up with a row of two spaces. To add a row or column, click the
appropriate + in the preference pane. The preference pane will show you a small illustration of
your current layout with a label on each space to designate its appropriate number. If you select
the “Show spaces in menu bar” option, it will use the designated number to display the active
space and allow you to switch to other spaces via a drop-down menu.
Below the area displaying your spaces layout, you can set up applications so that they
always open in a designated space. For example, you could have all your Internet applications
open in one space and all of your office apps open in another. Switching to an application in the
Dock, or opening an application, will automatically take you to the appropriate space.
To move from one space to another, you can “activate” Spaces either using the F8 key (by
default) or clicking the icon in the Dock. This will present a view of all your spaces shrunk down
to fit on your screen, very much like the “All windows” view in Exposé (Figure 3-13).
While Spaces is activated, you can select any window in the view and move it from one
space to another, or you can select any space to make that space active on your primary screen.
You can also move windows from one space to another by selecting a window and dragging
it to an edge of your screen where another space may be.
To quickly move from one space to another, you can use a series of other keyboard shortcuts.
By default, pressing Ctrl and an arrow key at the same time will move you to the space in
that direction. Specifically, pressing Ctrl with the right or left arrows will cycle through the
spaces numerically, and pressing Ctrl with the up and down arrows will move up or down only
if there is a valid space above or below to move into. If you know the space’s number, you can
move directly to that space pressing Ctrl and the spaces number (for example, pressing Ctrl+4
will move to space 4). When you use these keyboard shortcuts, a small overlay graphic will
appear on the screen to illustrate where you are in the Spaces layout (Figure 3-14).