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Warp lets you mouse between Spaces in OS X
OS X's Spaces feature is a nice implementation of virtual desktops, but I find it can be awkward to move between spaces sometimes. As much as I'm a keyboard shortcut kind of guy, and enjoy the ability to use the keyboard to switch spaces, often times when I want to switch between spaces my hand is already on my mouse. Yes, you can switch spaces by clicking the spaces icon in the menu bar, but there's a faster, more intuitive way.
Warp is a system preference pane that adds the ability to simply push the mouse against the side of the screen and move to the next Space. There are configuration settings for how long the mouse needs to remain at the edge before it activates, whether to warp the mouse cursor when switching spaces (so that you can continue one smooth movement as if the spaces were actual screens side-by-side), the ability to wrap around spaces, whether or not to warp on edges featuring the dock or menu bar, and whether to require a click at the screen edge to activate Warp.
You kind of have to try it to understand just how it feels to use, and Warp may well require some tweaking to make it agree with your way of working. But once you get it working, you'll wonder how you could ever live without it.
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Subscribe to commentsf055Jan 27th 2010 12:00PM
Wait.. You can just grab any window and push it against screen edge to jump to that space or you can just use expose hot corner to activate spaces view. It's actually very fast.
kingkool68Jan 27th 2010 12:00PM
Wow, this is awesome! Setting the delay to 0's is great for a large 24" iMac. I already have the corners set to go into Expose. This works great!
Patrick HazardJan 27th 2010 12:18PM
This might be the solution i'm looking for. I currently use alt + number to switch to spaces but i need alt + 3 for #. Apple + numbers is used by illustrator and ctrl + numbers is awkward. There seems to be no way to set a general keyboard shortcut for # or change spaces to that funny shaped key to the left of the 1 and a number.
BazJan 27th 2010 1:34PM
Wow. Really? Warp? I'm having a serious back to the future moment with that name on a computer - something about IBM in there somewhere...
Clearly Apple is trying to play with the warp and woof of time - naming software after old products and offering new hardware that look like a squashed Newton.
JustinJan 27th 2010 1:59PM
Yeah, it's really great to see Mac catching up to Windows in implementing the beloved features of the freeware VirtuaWin. Way to go!
Eric J.Jan 27th 2010 2:03PM
I've been using Warp for so long, I'd forgotten that it's not the native OSX behavior.
GreenwaldJan 28th 2010 11:04AM
You realize that you can just assign a 3rd or 4th Mouse button in preferences to go to spaces?
I use button 3 for Expose, and button 4 for Spaces, (and button 5 for show desktop). It really works flawlessly on Macs and linux boxes.
Warp seems nice for more Compiz style effect.