In an app with multiple windows open, I'm used to using command-tilde to switch between open windows. I actually like the fullscreen app functionality introduced in Lion, but it appears to be useless when dealing with multiple window apps. For some reason command-tilde doesn't work, and there is no replacement to that functionality. Do power users just not use fullscreen apps?
Posted Oct 27, 2013, 3:49 AM UTC
I nearly never use fullscreen because I'm too used to hiding apps. But that's very old-timey Mac behavior and I do think the full screen mode is easier for new Mac users, especially with trackpad gestures.
In something like Safari or Finder (in Mavericks) you could use Window>Merge All Windows to merge all the windows into tabs of the fullscreen window.
Actually, I see in Safari if I open a non-browser window (like Preferences, which might be the only one) then command-tilde does work.
But I suppose it is best described as full-screen windows, not full-screen apps.
Well you could even have different Safari windows in different full-screen spaces.
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I like to use hot corners for Mission Control (once called Exposé) stuff.
Toss the pointer top right, it's all windows. ⌘-Bottom right it's the desktop. ⌘-Top left is Launchpad (mainly to keep track of large App store installations)
My problem is both App Expose and CMD+Tilde don't work with fullscreen apps. I know the shortcuts for moving between spaces but it's really not the same functionality. I guess I'm forced to only use fullscreen for apps with one window.
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I'm talking about having multiple windows open within one application, with one or more of them being fullscreen. So if I have two documents open in a word processor, both of them fullscreen, CMD+TAB still only show just the application. For a power user the trackpad gestures and CTRL+left/right are not a replacement for the usefulness of CMD+TAB and CMD+Tilde.
I switch between full screen apps using a 3 finger swipe—does that only work app to app, as opposed to window to window?
That works fine, but it's not the same thing as command-tilde, and it's much slower and less ergonomic for me.