Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com.
On today's episode let's take a look at Mission Control and the new split view in Mac OS 10,
El Capitan.
Mission Control has been improved in El Capitan.
It seems like every version of OS 10 we get a little bit of an improvement in Mission
Control.
I'm demonstrating here on a MacBook which is a great example because in MacBook you
kind of got limited screen space and if you've got a lot of apps running, you can see all
the different apps that are open right now, it is tough to be productive with all these
windows on top of each other.
I'm going to launch Mission Control.
I can do that with the F3 key or you may need to use the fn key in addition to the F3 key
or I can do Control and Up arrow.
It takes me into Mission Control.
You can see it is a simplified interface with a few changes here.
One is you've got just the word Desktop at the top instead of a miniature representation
of the actual screen.
You've got a Plus button to the right to add another desktop and you've got the windows.
Now this is subtle.
But the windows are arranged closer to where they actually are on the screen.
So if I was actually using Safari on the right side of the screen and Pages on the left it
would show them on the right and on the left whereas before it kind of mixed it up a little
bit.
Now I can use this as a simple way to switch between apps and bring the window I want to
the front.
So if I want to look at Calendar I can do that.
I can go to Mission Control and I can bring Pages up and do that.
But I can also have multiple desktops.
So let me do it, I can do it by hitting the Plus button here.
As I move my cursor over here I can see what my desktop looks like.
Now I have this Plus button and I'll add another desktop and it is called Desktop 2.
I could just drag things to it.
So let's say I want to put Pages here in Desktop 2 you can see how easy that was.
I can say put Reminders there in that same desktop.
Now I can click on that desktop to go to it.
Then I can go into Mission Control and select the other desktop.
Or I can use the handy shortcuts of using the Control key and the right and left arrow
keys to go quickly between multiple desktops.
Now it is easy to move things around inside of Mission Control.
I'll go into it here and I can use Control and the right and left arrows to move between
the desktops.
Then I can just drag things.
So I can drag Reminders over to this desktop for instance.
I can also get rid of desktops by hitting the X here and then it would throw everything
onto the desktop that makes the most sense.
I can also use this for full screen apps.
So, for instance, let's go into Desktop 1 here and let's say I want to go to let's just
stick with Calendar and take that full screen.
So I use the green button here to go full screen and now if I go into Mission Control
I'll see that Calendar appears as its own desktop.
In fact it is in the proper order here.
If I were to go into Calendar, Control, left arrow it goes to that desktop.
Control right arrow goes to this desktop.
So it kind of makes sense within the scheme of things.
So a full screen app will simply be another desktop here.
If I close it you can see this destroys this desktop but this will simply take that out
of full screen and it will go back to the desktop where it was before.
So it makes it very easy to take something full screen temporarily and then go back out.
Now the new feature for El Capitan is the split screen mode.
Split screen mode is very similar to full screen mode but allows you to have two apps
instead of one.
Let's start out with Calendars.
This is how you activate split screen mode.
Go to the green button that would normally change to full screen but instead of just
a simple click I'm going to press and hold down on the track pad and you can see that
then that app pops to the front and I get this blue area to the left or this blue area
to the right depending upon where I roll over.
So I'm going to drop it in one of these places and as I do that I get this Mission Control
view on the other side.
I can select what I want here.
So I'm going to select Safari.
Now I've got split screen mode.
If I go to Mission Control I see that I've got Desktop 1 and Desktop 2 as before but
I've got, instead of full screen, I've got Calendar and Safari right here.
I can even drag this line here a little bit to the right to give more room to the app
on the left and less on the right.
So I don't have to be perfectly split 50 50.
You can adjust it a little bit.
Now I can get out of split screen mode by just moving my cursor to the top.
Now I can use one of these green buttons to pop one of these apps back to a regular window
leaving the other one to take over this entire desktop.
Or if I want to just go into Mission Control I can actually close both of these at once
by using this button right here.
Now it puts those apps back on the desktops where they belong.
So here are some other tips when dealing with Mission Control.
You can do some more dragging.
If I wanted to take something full screen, like iBooks here, I can actually drag it to
the top and create a desktop space for it and it would just be full screen in that space.
In addition you can roll over your cursor here and hit the spacebar to enlarge any of
these windows.
That really helps if you are trying to figure out what it is you are looking at.
Also you can rearrange the desktops up here or the full screen apps for that matter just
by dragging and dropping them around.
So that is very handy when you are using Control left and right arrows to move between things
when doing projects.
You have that ability to kind of control where things are and which desktops and apps are
next to each other.