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Expose has been a part of OS X since Panther. In Leopard, it's joined by the virtual desktop application Spaces. Both features help you control window traffic on your monitor. In this excerpt from Take Control of Customizing Leopard, Matt Neuburg explains how to make both tools work for you. more

In Leopard, using Expose, there seems to be a glitch on my iMac. In the Tiger days, when I asked for the desktop (F11 or "squeeze" the mouse), I would see the desktop and thus have access to all the items on my desktop like mounted drives, documents sitting there or Anything on my desktop. In Leopard, when I do the same thing, it shows me the desktop as just my desktop background. I can actually see my desktop with the documents/drives as it goes off into the upper area of my screen, off screen. Why? I thought it might be a setting or something but I can't find anything. All I know is I had the feature in Tiger now it's not working in Leopard.

A very nice Virtual Desktop is YouConrolDektops that I still use with Tiger, and has the all beautifull 3D Cube transition that spaces has not.
Even when I will switch to leopard will use YouControlDesktops. How come no one mention this?
There are extremely good developers writing great apps for the mac. So, this is it.

I've been experimenting with all sorts of configurations regarding spaces, and my conclusion is that even having only one extra space will destroy my workflow at some point. Maybe it's because I use drag and drop so extensively, but I keep running into things, like dragging an attachment onto an email, dragging a picture in my browser windows onto a PhotoShop document; at some point, having an application in a separate space becomes more of an annoyance than a convenience.
May just be me, but with expos as powerful as it is, I don't really see the need anyway.

I'm really impressed with Spaces. The cycling between desktops is fast and smooth. I miss the feature when I use a Mac without Leopard.

Biggest bang for the buck for me is when I combine Spaces with Fusion - so all my required Windows apps run on a different desktop.
I do miss the cube effect of Virtue though - and I can't seem to figure out any way to transition other than the slide effect.