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Exposé: Automatically update when a new window opens/closes

Submitted by Flauchhaus on November 17, 2008 to Aesthetics, Annoyance, Bug, Usability

Problem: When a window opens or closes while expose is activated, Exposé doesn't update automatically, so for example it leaves an "death" window space when a window closes while in expose, or when a new window opens it just shows the window in front of Exposé.
Examples:
- Start Keynote and immediately Exposé. Keynote opens in front of Exposé but even worse, Exposé still has mouse focus so if you click on the open keynote window it still triggers the Exposé window behind it.
- If you have VMware Fusion/Parallels etc. running quit it and Exposé. The running VM takes a while to suspend and quit so it leaves a death window space in Exposé.

Solution: Automatically update Exposé on new/closed windows.
The only downside i could imagine is that new windows wouldn't be that noticeable when many windows are open. A short highlighting of the new window in Exposé would fix that nicely, also if the new window would be another application the menu bar would show it anyway.

Severity: Low

Impact: Low

Status: Not fixed

In Snow Leopard new application windows start in background. (10A402a)

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