Exposé and the Tab Key

I don’t know if this is general knowledge or not, and I’m not a big Exposé user, so I could easily be ignorant of such a thing, but I just discovered that you can cycle through Exposé-activated applications using the tab or tilde keys. Here’s what you do:

  • Hit the Exposé key (which is F3 on my nifty metal keyboard).
  • Hit the tab key. This will tab to the next application and display it as though it were in Exposé’s application window mode, showing all the app’s open windows.

    Exposé Tab Selection

    Exposé Tab Selection (click for larger view)

  • Continue hitting tab to bring subsequent apps to the front.
  • Hit the tilde key to cycle backwards through apps.
  • Hit the Return or Enter key to activate the selected app.

This is pretty cool. Who knows, maybe it’ll even encourage me to start using Exposé.

Maybe.

2 Comments

  1. Andrew
    Posted April 23, 2009 at 7:56 AM | Permalink

    This one wasn’t general knowledge to me. Fantastic tip, thanks!

    Andrew.

  2. Posted April 23, 2009 at 8:41 AM | Permalink

    Excellent!

    -systemsboy

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