Henri, F7 allows you to switch from mirror mode to a continuous mode on your screen and another monitor. I just recently tried this with one of the cables Apple included with my Powerbook G4 12". In mirror mode you get exactly the same thing displayed as you do on the other monitor. In the other mode, (I forgot the term they use for it) you can use each monitor to display different things. This is great for things like garage band, Logic, iMovie, Final Cut, etc., where you have various software components taking up limited display space.
F9-F11 Expose F9 displays all currently running programs in miniature on your screen at the same time. You can point and click on any one of them to bring it to the foreground. F10 displays all windows of which ever program you are currently running. If I have two or more windows open in Safari, one with an article, one accessing my email, etc. F10 will display just these. F11 clears your screen so you can see your desktop. I forgot what F8 does but I don't think it is part of expose. Don't know why these aren't working on your new Powerbook. Hope this helps, Peter P.S. Command Tab is really great. It displays a thumbnail icon of each currently running program across your screen. You can walk from one to the other (left to right) to change from one program to another. Command Shift Tab lets you do the same thing only right to left. Finally, if you're switching back and forth between two programs like I have been recently taking tutorials from Sun Microsystems and running their software that I'm trying to learn as I work through the tutorial, Command Tab will switch back and forth (toggle) from one to the other. On 12/30/05, Henri Yandell <flamefew at gmail.com> wrote: > As a by product of a new job, I have a new powerbook and can get back > into the world of the Mac. It's a shiny new 15" and it's amazin how > just getting off the clunky old titanium and decripit dell has kicked > me into development life again. > > It's my first time in Tiger though, and I've hit a few questions so far: > > * F8 through F11 are supposed to do Expose things, but when I press F8 > to F10, all I get is a transparant icon on the screen with a 'No > Entry' style sign below it. Any idea how I get the expose features to > work? > > * F7 has a pair of overlapped windows. Any idea what it's for? I can't > find anything using just F7 in the Sys Prefs->Keyboard->Shortcuts > dialog. > > I'm still dithering as to which of Yahoo Widgets (formerly > Konfabulator) or Dashboard to use. The only other Tiger thing that has > an effect on me is that I can now run Java 5.0. > > Thanks, > > Hen > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 24 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
