Mac OS® X Tiger™ Unleashed

Managing Windows with Exposé

As you use Tiger, you'll find that way too often you've buried yourself in windows. Although you can minimize and maximize windows to find what you want, this is not an efficient way to deal with the clutter.

Apple recognized this and introduced a feature in 10.3 called Exposé. Rather than rearrange your workspace to find a specific window, Exposé temporarily rearranges all your windows so that you can see them simultaneously and find what you want. After you've located the window you want, you can select it by positioning your mouse over the top of it and clicking, shown in Figure 1.42. All the onscreen windows return to their original positions with the chosen window on top.

Figure 1.42. Itty-bitty windows, everywhere…. ...