that's what happened with mac #1 at work. We pooh-poohed the mouse that came with the tablet & pen - it ONLY works on the tablet. >:( So we have a regular 2 button mouse.
This is mac #2, it's new to us still, it has yet to be properly tweaked it seems.
Mac Mice are definitely not the greatest but what you're activating is a feature called expose. If you want to turn it off or slave the buttons to a different config of your choosing, just open system preferences under the apple menu and click on keyboard and mouse. You can easily edit buttons and such to your own preferences. Or just go to expose in the preferences and turn that off as well if you don't find it useful.
I think it's important to explore all the preferences in any program including the OS first and foremost so one can get a handle on how things generally work as well as how to tweak them to your needs. It's really the best place to educate yourself if something is "driving you nuts" and you don't know what it is.
Expose is actually a very very useful feature to quickly switch between programs and windows. I use it all the time. Though I've switched it to a middle click on my mouse which suits my needs.
It's the mac at work, unfortunately, so the person who works on it normally is the one who gets to tweak it. I think I'll shut it off on my own login, but primarily we work on a shared account and there is generally a consensus on how things are set up. I had looked through my mac book, and tried out the function keys it mentioned, only to discover the person at work had obliterated them with custom ones.
The particularly problematic mac is fairly new to us, so it has yet to be properly tweaked.
If you each set up your own login account rather than both working from the same one, the system should keep all of your individual settings including desktop wallpaper and mouse preferences.
I'm wondering if the machines are regularly maintained. Back in the college days our Mac lab often had problems because nobody regularly repaired permissions and zapped the Pram.
(Well in those days it was Pram, Disk repair and defrag.) It didn't help that people were allowed to and often did download and install anything and everything they could click on.
well the new mac has its weirdness still to be worked out, I have faith they'll tame it to behave like the other one, they're not done configuring it - it has to have a video monitor added to it, with Black Magic capture software.
Part Most of the problem is my lack of familiarity with OS X. I have a book, which is how I learned some shortcut keys and other stuff that is difficult to discover on your own, but as you can see I haven't finished the book yet. :D
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This is mac #2, it's new to us still, it has yet to be properly tweaked it seems.
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I think it's important to explore all the preferences in any program including the OS first and foremost so one can get a handle on how things generally work as well as how to tweak them to your needs. It's really the best place to educate yourself if something is "driving you nuts" and you don't know what it is.
Expose is actually a very very useful feature to quickly switch between programs and windows. I use it all the time. Though I've switched it to a middle click on my mouse which suits my needs.
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The particularly problematic mac is fairly new to us, so it has yet to be properly tweaked.
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I'm wondering if the machines are regularly maintained. Back in the college days our Mac lab often had problems because nobody regularly repaired permissions and zapped the Pram.
(Well in those days it was Pram, Disk repair and defrag.) It didn't help that people were allowed to and often did download and install anything and everything they could click on.
Part of me wishes I could visit to help out.
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Part Most of the problem is my lack of familiarity with OS X. I have a book, which is how I learned some shortcut keys and other stuff that is difficult to discover on your own, but as you can see I haven't finished the book yet. :D
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