Comments on: Show Desktop on Mac

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 21:40:20 +0000

An easier way:
Download BetterTouchTool (free) and setup either a Keyboard or Mouse shortcut, or both, to perform the action: Hide All Windows.

Easy.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:36:42 +0000

Agreed with Nick.

Show Desktop is a great utility. I’m surprised such basic functionality isn’t built into the OS. Especially useful for me is the ability to expose just one app plus desktop (for example, if you need to drag something from desktop to that app, or from app to desktop). Something I do all the time. Neither the 4-finger drag nor Expose nor F12 support this; ctrl-tab (which I otherwise like) pops up all apps, not just the one I want.

Thanks for the tip!

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 20:07:19 +0000

This is a very handy app! Thanks so much!!

About the comments above:
I think they simply don’t realize what a real show desktop should look like – not just shaded pieces of the windows around, but a clean desktop instead!

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:53:45 +0000

All of these methods work. The issue will all of them is you have to remember something. Which hot corner? Which set of keys to press?

By: tom

tom — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 01:17:26 +0000

or in snow leopard 10.6 you can press Cmd-F3

By: elliottm

elliottm — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:42:58 +0000

never bothered me either, my MBP is set up so that a four finger swipe upwards pushes all the windows out of the way

By: jacob

jacob — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:20:37 +0000

I setup my middle-mouse button (in preferences) to show Desktop and back. just one-click

By: Genghis

Genghis — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:36:41 +0000

Agreed w/ Marvin Tucker.

By: Marvin Tucker

Marvin Tucker — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:47:43 +0000

I’ve never had this frustration. My screen corner hotspot has been set to “Desktop” since I got my Mac.

System Preferences -> Expose -> Active Screen Corners