How to boost Spaces using Hyperspaces
October 20, 2008 by Ross McKillop
Hyperspaces allows you to customize each “space” the way you want - using colours, desktop backgrounds and even text labels/names for each of your spaces. It has finally entered the “public preview” stage (which means you can download it, but it’s pretty much a beta version).
This is somewhat of a long-awaited app by the same fellow who created Virtue Desktops (one of my absolute favorite Tiger apps). Since Leopard introduced Spaces, Virtue Desktops wasn’t “needed” anymore. Hyperspaces adds additional features that Apple “missed” with Spaces.
- To install Hyperspaces, unzip the file and drag Hyperspaces to your Applications folder. Launch it from there. You’ll notice a new entry in your Menu bar. Click that entry and select Preferences to setup Hyperspaces.
- From the General tab you can specify some of the - you guessed it - general preferences.
- Select the Hyperspaces tab from the top toolbar. Select one of your spaces from the top window, and give it a name. I labeled my main space, Main. If you’d like to have the space label show up on the desktop of that space, place a check in the box labeled Show space name on the desktop. Drag the “circle” in the Position window to the location you’d like the name to appear on your desktop. The default is the upper-left corner.
- Use the Font: button to change the font for your desktop label.
- Now select the Background tab. From here you can specify a different desktop background picture for each space.
- Select another of your Spaces and repeat the above steps to customize it.
- Click the Hotkeys button from the top nav bar. From here you can record a number of hotkeys for the various Hyperspaces functions.
- The default hotkey of Alt + ` will bring up a Space “switcher” box that you can click to change spaces.
Oh… thank. You. So. Much
So much.
just for the labelled spaces
Im already married but…
I would do you in a SECOND!
I had always wondered if there would be life after Virtue