Comments on: How to Show the Finder on All Spaces in Leopard [Mac Tip]

By: Gary S.

Gary S. — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:20:40 +0000

Thank you for this tip - it’s taken me some months to stagger into it while drifting around the net - it’s something that has bothered me but not enough to search for an answer, now I’ve found a fix I’m rather happy.

By: Franklin

Franklin — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:25:55 +0000

@Henrik - Glad to help! Did you see the other Leopard Tips ?

By: Henrik Ahlén

Henrik Ahlén — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:54:43 +0000

Thanks! I was going nuts over this as well, trying to import videos into Keynote when Keynote is in Space 2. Great tip!

By: electric weekend – 2 Genius Leopard Tips

electric weekend – 2 Genius Leopard Tips — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:06:09 +0000

[...] Show the Finder in all spaces. [...]

By: Franklin

Franklin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:56:20 +0000

@Gayle - Glad to help

By: Gayle

Gayle — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 07:33:19 +0000

Thank you so much. You are my new best friend. I figured out that I wanted to give Finder access to all spaces, but as a relative newbie Apple user I couldn’t find it. I was just on the verge of turning off spaces when I thought I’d have one more try to look up solutions. And there you were! Thank you!

By: A List of Mac Freeware that Leopard has Mauled to Death : Zaphu

A List of Mac Freeware that Leopard has Mauled to Death : Zaphu — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:45:27 +0000

[...] on the project. I have been fairly pleased with Apple’s Spaces, except for a few bugs and annoyances, that [...]

By: Franklin

Franklin — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 01:09:59 +0000

@Helge - Good to know, I hadn’t tried DesktopManager just VirtueDesktops. Perhaps someone can figure out how to make Spaces behave this way. As for DesktopManager, isn’t that a PPC only application? I’m not sure I’d want to run it along side of Spaces on an Intel Mac if it required Rosetta. Are you using a PPC or Intel Mac with DesktopManager?

By: Helge

Helge — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:43:12 +0000

I don’t think its an application feature, just changed display/window policy. In DesktopManager on 10.4 it worked that way, you selected the application, you *stayed* on the space and could then issue New Window commands and such (menubar or keyboard). With Spaces you are brought to the Space which contains an open App-Window. Sigh …

The current workaround is to right-click the dock icon (eg Safari) and select the “new window” in the context menu. Eg on Terminal.app this s*** because new terminal is not on the top-level, you need to navigate down a menu level …

Same thing with window minis in the dock. In DesktopManager they would open on the current space. In Spaces they open on the space they got minimized on.

Then with DesktopManager you could see the contents of the spaces in the menubar, w/o bringing up the overlay or clicking the menubar icon. And you could configure spaces to F1…Fn, allowing single-click quick changes. And you could turn off the annoying desktop change animation.

Plenty of annoyances with Spaces … Tip: You can bring back a few things by installing DesktopManager *in addtion* to spaces. This seems to work “ok”.

By: Franklin

Franklin — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 19:35:44 +0000

@Slagheap - Good question, I’ve had others ask for this ability before. I currently don’t know of a solution. My guess is that this would have to be a feature of the application itself rather than Spaces. So for example MacVim would have to issue a ‘new window’ command instead trying to activate the current window located on a different space.