Opps…
(Click here if you don’t see the youtube video)
So, umm, don’t bind spaces to a button on your Logitech mouse.
UPDATE: It seems like you can actually interact with the spaces and applications to some limited extent. Dragging applications between spaces works.
UPDATE 2: You can also interact with the applications via the KEYBOARD in between the moment when you select a space and the moment when it finishes the zoom in animation! Immediately after selecting a space, hitting command+Q will CLOSE THE APPLICATION!!
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Wow. Good find! I’m going to have to pass this around.
Luckily, it doesn’t look like you can interact with the windows.
Prank: Activate spaces and select one of the other desktops, where you get a blank screen and no log-in window.
It’s funny, you CAN sort of interact with the windows. You can drag apps between the spaces. So you could mess with someone by dragging all of their apps on one space
Ben,
If you hold when using Expose via the mouse, do the windows move slower? (Invoking Expose while holding shift normally renders the animation in slow motion.)
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Grrrr…. the blog stripped out some text. Should read..
“If you hold SHIFT when using Expose via the mouse, do the windows move slower?”
Good question Preston. I’ll give it a shot tomorrow (only have this setup at work).
Preston, using SHIFT doesn’t seem to effect spaces while the computer is locked. However, check out the updates to the post to see how else you can interact with the applications using this exploit.