Why does my Mac shift screens?
Sounds like you have Apple’s Accessibility feature, Zoom, enabled. You can toggle Zoom off using the keyboard shortcut Option-Command-8. If that doesn’t work, check the settings in the Accessibility Preference Pane: Click on the Apple Menu in the upper left corner of your screen and select System Preferences.
How do you freeze a Mac desktop?
Lock the desktop by either clicking on the user name drop menu and selecting the “Login Window” option, clicking on the padlock icon on the menu bar or waiting for the screen saver to turn on.
How do I fix my Mac desktop order?
Yes! The answer is found in System Preferences > Mission Control. Uncheck the “Automatically rearrange spaces based on most recent use” box. Your Spaces/Desktops will now stay in the order that they are opened (in the case of full-screen apps) or created (in the case of Desktops).
Can a window be minimized by clicking its dock icon?
Something that bothers me as Windows user on OS X is that I can’t minimize an app window by clicking the dock icon of the application. Is there a hidden setting for enabling this behavior or a utility that someone could recommend? macosdockiconwindow-managerminimize Share Improve this question Follow edited Nov 5 ’19 at 18:42
How can I minimize the size of the dock?
As you can see, there isn’t a way to click the dock. Another option past the accepted answer of using a keyboard shortcut is to enable hiding from clicking the window’s title bar. Open System preference, select General, select Double-click a window’s title bar to minimize’. On Lion this is above the control for Sidebar icon size.
Is there a way to hide an application in the dock?
You can hide an active application by option-clicking (alt-clicking) its icon in the dock. You can also hide the active window and open another window by alt-clicking whatever application you want to open in the dock. But I agree with you that it would be more symmetrical to be able to click to minimize all the open windows in an application.
How can I disable Auto-switching desktops?
Go to System Preferences/Mission Control and uncheck the box that says “When swithching applications, switch to another space with open windows for that application.” P.S. I’m running 10.8.4