i recently purchased a 24″ iMac. i love it and am very happy with it. however, this is my first Mac and the transition has hit a few bumps. it was bothering me that i couldn’t easily see the desktop without minimizing all of the open windows. i could “see” the desktop when i used expose, but you can’t click on anything, ie, folders or the HD. in windows, there is the “show desktop” button in the quick links panel down on the bottom left near the start button, ya know? but i figured out a good fix using the “active screen corners”. i set the bottom left corner of the monitor to “show desktop”, so now i just throw the cursor down there for a second, all open screens get pushed off the desktop to the edges, and i can click on things on the desktop. it’s brilliant! i was used to moving the mouse down to the bottom left to hit the “show desktop” button, so it’s very natural to move it down there. only drawback is i accidently engage it sometimes when i move the cursor.
steps:
- open system preferences
- open “expose & spaces”
- make sure you’re in the expose fields
- choose which screen corner you’d like
- set it to “desktop”