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Cmd-Tab suddenly stopped working, and my Dock is unresponsive, what do I do?

command ⌘+tab⇥ and my Exposé shortcuts have stopped working, and clicking/mousing over dock icons has no effect. What's wrong? What can I do to get things back?
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What is the keyboard shortcut for Exposé on Mac OS X ?

I am trying to find/change shortcut for expose'. Other docs refer to an option in Keyboard Shortcuts to change "Expose and spaces". Where are these on os x 10.8.4? As can be seen in screenshot they do not reside directly in Keyboard shortcuts…
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Where are the "inner workings" of Exposé in OSX?

I need to alter the action of "App Exposé" in Lion so that it behaves like the old Exposé in Snow Leopard that showed all apps at once. Does anyone know where I would find the files that control these actions? I assumed the Dock since the Exposé…
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OSX El Capitan - Spaces bar - Show expanded window thumbnails/previews by default?

One of the new features of Mac OSX "El Capitan" (10.11) is that "the Spaces Bar has been shrunk, only displaying Desktop and window names by default—revealing your full desktop windows on mouseover." Is there any way to revert back to showing the…
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Exposé in 10.7: When exposing “Application Windows”, how do you show only the windows in the current space?

This is basically the same question as Exposé in 10.6: When exposing "Application Windows", how do you show only the windows in the current space?, but with 10.7 Lion. In Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, If you activate the "Application Windows" Exposé function,…
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Can I use a Terminal command to switch to a specific space in OS X 10.6?

Is there any terminal command I can use to switch directly to a space in OS X 10.6 ? Something like: spaces switch 2
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Old (Leopard) Expose on Snow Leopard (for mac)

I'm amazed this question hasn't been asked here. There are many discussions about it out there and even a way to remove the blue glow. Of course I've already filed my complaint with apple... Is there a way to have the old expose on Snow Leopard? Or…
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OS X Lion Mission Control - Why can't I organize my spaces the way I want to?

I just updated to Lion today and found at about the new Mission Control. I like it a lot (maybe because I'm pretty new to OS X and didn't now about spaces before, because I actually read a lot of complaints about the grid view that's gone), and I…
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Exposé in 10.6: When exposing "Application Windows", how do you show only the windows in the current space?

In Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, If you activate the "Application Windows" Exposé function, it will show all of that applications windows, whether they're in the current Space or not. Is there a way to have the "Application Windows" Exposé function…
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How to make Exposé in Snow Leopard hide minimized windows?

Exposé shows the minimized windows under a faint line on the bottom third of the screen. How can I make Exposé HIDE those minimized windows, in Snow Leopard?
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Better layout of Expose on Leopard

Is it possible for Expose on Mac OS X Leopard to arrange the preview windows in a more optimal manner? After a while on superuser, opening up a new windows for each question that interests me, Expose looks like this: It is of minimal value seeing…
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Exposing another port for Nginx in DockerFile

I'm new to DockerFile. I want Nginx to be listening on port 8080. so I've written the dockerFile in this way: FROM nginx:1.11-alpine COPY index.html /usr/share/nginx/html EXPOSE 8080 CMD ["nginx", "-g" , "daemon off;"] but after making image and…
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'Show Desktop' Mission Control/Expose Not Functioning [OSX 10.7 Lion]

I have recently upgraded to OS X Lion. I have mapped the keys via Mission Control preFpane as follows: F9 is 'Mission Control', F10 is 'Show Desktop'. F11 is 'Application Windows' F9 and F11 works as intended. F10 seems to not do anything. I thought…
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Logitech G5 2007 Edition with Mac OS X Snow Leopard, 5th button not invoking Exposé

I'm using a Logitech G5 2007 Edition mouse with my Mac. I've had it since Tiger, and everything has worked fine. I use the 4th button (the back arrow button) to show all windows in Exposé and I use the 5th button (the forward arrow button) to show…
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How do you use a Mac without a mouse?

So I was using my Mac Mini and decided to set the application button on Logic Click mouse to open Exposé. I had this set up at one time and found it useful. So I open the Exposé control panel and took a look at the triggers for Exposé. There is drop…
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