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Fullscreen is meant to focus you on one app. Spaces, aka. Mission Control, aka. "whateverthehellthey'recallingitthisweek", is meant to multimonitor set-ups wit

Fullscreen is meant to focus you on one app. Spaces, aka. Mission Control, aka. "whateverthehellthey'recallingitthisweek", is meant to multimonitor set-ups with a bunch of apps in preset places. Use spaces/missioncontrol. Personally, I don't get full-screen apps at all and wish this feature would die a painful and horrible death. I'd love to see stats on its use, as I've never seen anyone who actually knows what its cryptic icon represents.

mdonahoe 14y ago
I use it almost exclusively on my 11" air. With limited screen space it is very helpful. And swiping directionally between fullscreen apps is more intuitive than cmd-tab. But it is total garbage on a large screen, so I don't use it when docked.
- CubicleNinjas 14y ago
  This is very helpful. I guess it is for smaller screen sizes. It makes sense now. Thank you!
mikerastiello 14y ago
I agree, I don't get the appeal either. I never use it on my 13" MBP, whether it's just the laptop or if I have it set up with an external 24" as a second monitor. On my 27" iMac the only time I have a window maximized is when I have iPhoto open. However, the window is maximized, I'm not in fullscreen mode.
pooriaazimi 14y ago
I use it on my 15" MacBook pro all the time, and really enjoy it. I don't have external displays, so it's a great thing for me. But as others have said, with an external display attached to yor Mac, it's absolute garbage.
xentronium 14y ago
> Fullscreen is meant to focus you on one app. My common use case is opening text editor in fullscreen on main display and terminal with tests and tail -f log on the secondary one. Using Lion's fullscreen mode could help me get some extra screen estate for the editor, were it done right. Also, why force turning off the displays? After all, one can press the power button or dim it using brightness settings, if the need arises.

mdonahoe 14y ago

I use it almost exclusively on my 11" air. With limited screen space it is very helpful. And swiping directionally between fullscreen apps is more intuitive than cmd-tab. But it is total garbage on a large screen, so I don't use it when docked.

CubicleNinjas 14y ago
This is very helpful. I guess it is for smaller screen sizes. It makes sense now. Thank you!

mikerastiello 14y ago

I agree, I don't get the appeal either. I never use it on my 13" MBP, whether it's just the laptop or if I have it set up with an external 24" as a second monitor. On my 27" iMac the only time I have a window maximized is when I have iPhoto open. However, the window is maximized, I'm not in fullscreen mode.

pooriaazimi 14y ago

I use it on my 15" MacBook pro all the time, and really enjoy it. I don't have external displays, so it's a great thing for me. But as others have said, with an external display attached to yor Mac, it's absolute garbage.

xentronium 14y ago

> Fullscreen is meant to focus you on one app. My common use case is opening text editor in fullscreen on main display and terminal with tests and tail -f log on the secondary one. Using Lion's fullscreen mode could help me get some extra screen estate for the editor, were it done right. Also, why force turning off the displays? After all, one can press the power button or dim it using brightness settings, if the need arises.