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If you can tell me how to set up Lion to use my preferred Snow Leopard hot corner settings, I'll be forever grateful:

* Top left corner: Show all four spaces in a 2x2 grid

* Top right corner: Show all current application windows

* Bottom right corner: Show desktop

* Bottom left corner: Show all windows

I've been using this setup (minus the Spaces part) since 10.3, and have yet to find a workflow I prefer for managing windows on a laptop screen's limited space when using a laptop with no external displays hooked up. I'd prefer to also have Leopard-and-before style proportionally-sized Expose to SL's grid, but that's a minor thing.

Lion's Full Screen Mode and Mission Control appear to have made things more "accessible" (and oh, are people often surprised by my setup when borrowing my laptop for a bit and inadvertently hitting a corner!) but I can't find any way to replicate what I had before. As far as I can tell, the options are just gone.

And I find the removal of features I'd come to love really disturbing, especially coupled with the move away from hardware upgradability/expandability.

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As far as moving the Mac to ARM goes... that's in all likelihood the day I buy another ThinkPad. And for pretty much exactly the same reasons as the first time, when my PowerPC-based PowerBook G4 just didn't have enough power, and couldn't virtualize x86 OSes for testing/dabbling/whatever.

Fair point, they did rather neuter spaces (I guess to get more people using it, but at the expense of power users). All other options still work. I'm not at my machine to lookup settings, but ML added a "Don't group windows" to Mission Control that pretty much replicates Expose from SL (just ignore the Spaces view at the top).

That's good to know about ML. I've been happy staying on SL for my personal laptop so far, but am glad there's an upgrade path that'll still give me an all-windows Expose functionality.

Spaces was always the least-used of my hotcorners -- especially after getting a separate work laptop that lives with two external monitors hooked up, plus the internal screen open, which greatly reduces the need for that kind of stuff. It's mostly made me not bugged by it being on Lion.

You should check out Total Spaces: http://totalspaces.binaryage.com/

I was dreading the move to Lion since Spaces was a big part of my development workflow. But Total Spaces has filled in the gap for me.

Since its just juggling windows around there is a slight lag in responsiveness compared to the original spaces but in general it does the trick for me.

You can do most things on your list with Total Spaces:

* Top left corner: Show all four spaces in a 2x2 grid * Top right corner: Show all current application windows * Bottom right corner: Show desktop * Bottom left corner: Show all windows

>If you can tell me how to set up Lion to use my preferred Snow Leopard hot corner settings, I'll be forever grateful

This is not the kind of the locking and freedom removal the article is talking about.

This is a feature that's changed, removed, as they experiment to find the best (according to their team) way to implement it. I, for one, never use Hot Corners (find them disturbing), and I also hate "autohide dock". So it's not like it was a feature with unanimous love that got removed (something like Maps on iOS or Rosetta that people either needed or didn't care about).

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