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The space is not activated by default: you still need to then switch to that space using the familiar three finger swipe left/right, or by clicking on it in the list of Spaces at the top of your screen. Once you have the window on the desired space and the side you want, just release your mouse to drop the window into the Space. You can of course just (while holding down your mouse button) move the window back down onto the desktop and cancel the Split View action. A “+” icon shows which side of the space the window will be positioned: If you move your cursor (while still holding down the mouse button or trackpad), you can move the selected window left or right on any of the spaces to select the left or right side of the split view. In this example, just move the Finder window onto the Safari space, after which you’ll see the Finder window in miniature in the Spaces bar, and Safari squeezes over to one side. The next step, is to grab the Finder window and move it to the space you want to use Split View with. This step isn’t really necessary as the next step will automatically do that in any case. You can however just move your cursor to the top of the screen which expands the spaces and shows little graphics of each one. In El Capitan, a single swipe upwards doesn’t show a graphic representation of your spaces, just a semi-transparent bar with the names of each space shown as text: Next, swipe upwards on your trackpad with three fingers to show your available spaces. In this example, we’ll just use a Finder window.
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Next, go back to the Finder and open whatever other app you won’t to use as the second app.
#OSX EL CAPITAN SPLIT SCREEN FULL#
Open Safari (or another app of your choice) and enter full screen mode either by pressing the green traffic light button, or by using the keyboard shortcut which is Control + Command + F.
#OSX EL CAPITAN SPLIT SCREEN WINDOWS#
Let’s start with a simple example, arranging two windows side by side – in this case we’ll use Safari on one side of the screen and add another app to the other side. There are a couple of ways to use it, all of which should become fairly intuitive once you’ve done it a couple of times.
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Using Split View is very straightforward.