Saturday, 2 November 2019

macos - "Show desktop" keyboard shortcut in Mac OS X


I am using a MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.5. Is there a similar function to "show desktop" (shortcut is WIN+D) on a Mac? 


It should hide all applications and show a clean desktop.



Answer



On older versions of OS X, it's one of the Exposé keys. Starting with OS X 10.7, Exposé has been replaced by Mission Control.


The default is F11. On a MacBook you will have to press fnF11, as the keys are used for controlling volume by default.


Note that F11 will not work if you have a full screen window on screen (like the browser in full-screen mode), you will have to switch to the Desktop mode first (using F3, for example) before using F11.


If that's not the right one, look in your System Preferences to see which one it is.


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