Hi Paul,
Apparently the specifications for Spaces are now under Mission Control, and
there may not be a way to disable Spaces -- the options don't seem to cover
this. Try using the Apple Knowledge Base document on Mission Control for
instructions on creating, navigating, and closing desktop spaces with
VoiceOver. Hopefully you can close the second desktop this way.
• VoiceOver Utility (Mountain Lion): Use Mission Control
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5814
Here's the relevant section pasted in:
<begin quote>
In Mission Control, a row of thumbnails across the top of the screen represents
Dashboard, desktop spaces, and your full-screen apps. The lower part of the
screen shows an Exposé view of the open windows on your desktop, grouped by app.
• Open Mission Control. If the Trackpad Commander is not turned on, you
can swipe up on the trackpad using three fingers.
• Navigate to the Spaces list or Expose windows group by pressing
VO-Left Arrow or VO-Right Arrow.
To add a desktop to the Spaces list, navigate to the Add Desktop button,
located immediately after the Spaces List.
• Interact with the Spaces list or the Expose windows group by pressing
VO-Shift-Down Arrow.
• Navigate to an item in the list or group by pressing VO-Up Arrow or
VO-Down Arrow until you hear the item you want to work with.
• To work with the selected item, such as a desktop, press
VO-Space bar.
• To close the selected desktop, press VO-Command-Escape, and
then confirm your action by pressing Return.
To exit Mission Control without making a selection, press Escape or swipe down
with three fingers.
<end quote>
HTH. Cheers,
Esther
On Oct 29, 2012, at 10:01, Paul Hopewell wrote:
> Hi Esther,
> Many thanks for your prompt reply. Yes I originally thought that system
> preferences would help me but on Mountain Lion I do not see any preference
> panes related to spaces. I thought spaces might be3 a subset of mission
> control or doc or desktop but alas no. Any ideas on what might have happened
> to the prefrence pane for spaces in Mountain Lion?
>
> Is it possible that the default for Mountain Lion is to have two spaces each
> with its own desktop? This configuration seems to survive system restarts so
> maybe I cannot do anything about it?
> I will go look at cocktail to see if that has anything in it related to
> spaces.
> Best regards....
>
> Paul Hopewell
> On 29 Oct 2012, at 18:30, Esther <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> From memory, under System Preferences go to "Exposé & Spaces", then select
>> the "Spaces" tab. There should be a check boxes for enabling spaces and
>> also shortcut key assignments. I think I unchecked the options to enable
>> spaces and set all the shortcut keys to "-". Not sure this is exact for
>> Mountain Lion, but I typically always disable the Exposé shortcuts, too.
>>
>> HTH. Cheers,
>>
>> Esther
>>
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 29, 2012, at 10:40 AM, Paul Hopewell <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> I am running the latest version of Mountain Lion (10.8.2) on my iMac.
>>>>>
>>>>> I am concerned that I have somehow created multiple spaces. If I go to
>>>>> mission control I see that there is a spaces list with entries titled
>>>>> "exit to dashboard", "exit to desktop 1" and "exit to desktop 2". If this
>>>>> means that there are multiple spaces on my screen then I don't want them.
>>>>> How might they have been created and how can I get rid of them?
>>>>>
>>>>> Many thanks for any tips on spaces.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards.....
>>>>>
>>>>> Paul Hopewell
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