Zones Panel

Zones are created and removed on demand as you open and close applications. In the zones panel you can manage, organize or switch to your currently running applications.

The Zones Panel

You can access the zones panel via the toolbar by simply clicking on the icon, or you can use the Alt+Tab keyboard shortcut.

The simplest way to explain zones is to break it down into 3 processes; Choose, Switch, and Manage.

Choose

When you launch an application you are presented with pop-up. The pop-up is interactive and displays the number of zones you currently have running, plus a ‘new zone’ which contains an animated timer. By default the application you are launching will launch in the ‘new zone’ unless to click one of the existing launch in the ‘new zone’ unless to click one of the existing zones.

Zone ‘chooser’ – the highlighted zone is the zone you are currently in.

Switch

You can switch zones in two ways, via the toolbar or by using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Tab. Once you have accessed the zones panel you can click (or Ctrl+Tab+Tab) to select an alternative thumbnail to switch to that application and corresponding zone.

Click on an application thumbnail to switch to the corresponding zone.

Manage

You can manage or organize your zones by dragging your application thumbnails into alternative zones. If a zone only has one application running in it and you drag that application into another zone it will automatically be deleted, or in other words you cannot have an empty zone.

Click and drag an application thumbnail to move it to another zone.

You can also create new zones by dragging an application thumbnail onto the far right hand area as illustrated below.

Drag an application thumbnail to the right hand area to create a new zone.