How to restart Mac OSX Spaces

As a designer with all those screen-hungry design apps, a mail program, a couple of browsers, file windows, text editor, etc all open at once, you can quickly lose your mind. Spaces – the multiple desktops feature in Mac OS X [borrowed from Linux I think] – is invaluable to solving this problem, allowing for a much more structured working environment. However, sometimes when moving between a dual-display and single-display set-up Spaces stops working and if you’ve become dependent on it you’ll suddenly feel shackled. However, before reaching for the “Restart” button, try this…

  1. Open the Terminal.
  2. Type ‘killall Dock’.
  3. Spaces should come back to life.

2nd December 2008

Ben Childs

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