The hot corners will help when you don't want use "swipes". In the "Mission control" uncheck "Show dashboard as space" - left-bottom corner will show to you the Dashboard when needed. (Because of "Mission control", "Application windows" and "Show desktop" swipes,)įour: Setup hot corners in the "System preferences -> Mission Control". This is very not-windows-like, but later will thanks to settle in with this.Īfter a while you will learn to use it automatically, and will find than you don't need a Taskbar. Take some time to learn 3-finger and 4-finger gestures, especially "swipe 4 finger up/down" and move drag with "3-fingers" (instead of click & drag).
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Third: setup full trackpad gestures - click every checkbox on Trackpad preferences. Where you can clearly see than the "doc" file is minimized into the app-icon and the untitled is opened. The minimize-windows-into-application icon will partially simulate the Windows taskbar, so you will get: Later you will set direct opposites, (automatic scroll bars, jump on the clicked spot) but for the switchers the above is good for a start. Go to System preferences (via the Apple icon in the menubar).Philip, believe me, it is much better spending some time to learn (and settle in) with OS X style of work than looking some Windows taskbar solution.Īssuming that you have a new OS X notebook, you probably have multitouch trackpad too, so try the following: