In Windows Os, there’s this shortcut to minimize all the open windows and show the desktop only (Win + D). Does anyone know the equivalent in Mac OS or an app that can replicate the same behavior?
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Mac OS X calls it Exposé and the default key is F11 or Command-F3. You can change this — and also map it to moving the mouse into a screen corner — in the Control Panel.
This doesn't exactly minimize all windows though, it just swishes them all out of the way temporarily so you can see the desktop.
To minimize the current window, press Command-M. To minimize all windows of the app in focus, press Command-Option-M. Or you can press Command-H which hides the application. Command-H will minimize your apps one by one, but it won't work on the last open one. Command-Option-H will hide all other apps but the active one.
Another relevant shortcut is to hold down Command+Option and click the desktop, which will minimize everything but an open Finder window. Doing the same and clicking on a dock icon will minimize every other window but that program (and open that programs window if it is not open).
I use Command + Option + Desktop (clicking somewhere on the desktop). All windows go away.
Select Hide Others from the active application menu, or use shortcut alt ⌥+cmd ⌘+H
Not the straightest way to accomplish it, but better than "hide others" or "buy 3rd party app".
Go to "Window" menu to get a notion of what name or number your current window has;
Minimize them all: ⌥⌘M (or just hold ⌥ to get "All" while at "Window" menu);
Then, while you still have minimized app's active focus, you can either press control↓ to get preview of its windows or you can try finding window you need using windows list in "Window" menu.
P. S. Not strictly necessarily but rather useful to have window minimisation effect changed from Genie to Scale (I'd prefer to turn off animation at all but unlikely there's such an option); Genie is noticeably (more) slow when you have a bunch of windows minimizing at once
⌥+⌘+M actually minimizes all windows of a current application, not just the current focused window (unless of course, the application you have running only has one non-minimized window.)
The easiest way to hide all active applications is to select the Finder/Desktop, and then "Hide Others." The keyboard shortcut is ⌥+⌘+H.
You can also simply hold ⌥ and ⌘ and click on the Desktop, or Finder on the Dock, or of course, simply use Expose and hit F11 (Or whatever you've rebound Hide-all to.)
I just use Hot Corners to do it.
System Preferences >> Desktop & Screen Saver >> Hot Corners >> Select "Desktop" from one of the dropdowns. I use the bottom left, since that's where I was used to the Desktop button in XP lol.