Hi all - I seem to recall David talking about a Keyboard maestro script that minimizes all windows on your mac. Has anyone successfully deployed such a macro (or another trick to quickly hide windows on a far too busy desktop?) Thanks!
Option-Command-H hides other windows, i.e. the ones that aren’t currently selected.
You could follow that with a Commmand-H to hide your current window.
You could make a KM macro with those two shortcuts that would hide everything.
Keyboard Maestro macro steps:
- Activate Finder
- Hide All Other Apps ⌥⌘ H
- Close All Finder Windows ⌥ ⌘W
Voilà! Clean workspace.
The other apps’ windows aren’t actually minimized, but they are hidden. If David is actually minimizing them all, I’m not sure exactly how he’s managing that.
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Thank you both. On the one hand glad that I wasn’t missing something in my efforts, but also bummed that I can’t minimize, as that was my preference.
You could use KM to send Command-M to all open apps.
I’ve tried to do something similar with a combination of AppleScript and Keyboard Maestro, but I’ve always given up. It gets complicated with the different ways app behave. Menu apps, for example.
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