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Spaces.. Spaces.. Spaces.. retires Mon, Feb 18 2008 22:22

It wasn't long after my post on reverse engineering the Dock before Apple released OS X 10.5.2. With it, they also provided us a long-awaited fix for Spaces, which amounts to executing the following from the command line:

[#] defaults write com.apple.Dock workspaces-auto-swoosh -bool NO
[#] killall Dock

You can read more about it on macosxhints.com: "10.5: Disable Space switching on Command-Tab in 10.5.2"

So with this feature finally in place, I'm officially retiring Spaces.. Spaces.. Spaces.. At least until such a time as it again becomes necessary - which will hopefully be never!


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My name is Daniel Stødle. I live in Tromsø, Norway, at 69.66° North. By day, I work as a Postdoc at the Department of Computer Science, University of Tromsø, Norway; by night, I run my company SCSC. I do most of my development on and for Mac OS X. My research is geared towards wall-sized, high-resolution displays. Read more on my personal page.

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2010
Feb 09: FolderGlance on MacUpdate Promo

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Sep 28: FolderGlance 2.5.3 is out
Sep 21: FolderGlance 2.5.1 adds features and fixes bugs
Sep 16: FolderGlance 2.5 released!
Sep 10: Intriguing: Snow Leopard ships with the iPhone's multi-touch API built-in
Sep 03: FolderGlance and Snow Leopard
Mar 15: Fixing Keynote '08 and '09 to work with the Scripting Bridge
Feb 26: A website in an image
Feb 09: Display wall multi-touch

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Feb 19: Spaces.. Spaces.. Spaces.. retires
Feb 08: How-to: Reverse engineering the Dock to fix Spaces
Jan 25: Interacting with wall-sized displays

2007
Dec 20: Interesting Finder bug
Dec 06: Developing applications for the iPod touch (and the iPhone)
Nov 15: Spaces.. Spaces.. Spaces.. and 10.5.1
Nov 15: Thread creation using pthread_create() on Leopard
Nov 13: Spaces.. Spaces.. Spaces..
Nov 07: FolderGlance, Leopard and the More... menu
Nov 06: FolderGlance and Screen Sieve now also on Leopard!
Sep 16: Mysterious window server hangs
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