How To Hide All Windows/Apps By A Mouse Click (like on a PC)?

Clicking on an empty area of the Desktop does NOT hide all applications. I doubt that there is any application that would implement that, as it clearly departs from decades of mac experience.

The standard behavior of clicking on empty area of the desktop is to switch to the Finder, as I am sure you realize.

You cannot really hide all applications. You can hide the frontmost application (Command-H is pretty easy... H for "hide"), and you can hide all other applications (Command-Option-H).

And you can not hide, but push aside all applications, thus revealing the desktop underneath. You can do that with a gesture on the trackpad - spreading your thumb and four fingers (again, pretty suggestive, I'd say).

You can try to fight this and figure out a way to make it work more like Windows, but I recommend against it. In Windows, each window is its own entity, whereas the Mac is application-, rather than window-centric. Each work differently.

This is interesting... I use an external Logitech keyboard which the F5 does exactly that... But my regular MBP14 keyboard the same key is used for a different feature (voice over features), but if you press fn+F11 it will perform a Show Desktop feature.

Leandro_Brazil wrote:

This is interesting... I use an external Logitech keyboard which the F5 does exactly that... But my regular MBP14 keyboard the same key is used for a different feature (voice over features), but if you press fn+F11 it will perform a Show Desktop feature.

These are the defaults, but they can be changed in System Settings->Keyboard, if you want to.

I can understand how switching from one keyboard to another and find things in different places can be inconvenient. On the other hand, there is usually a visual cue on the built-in Apple keyboards.

Note that whether or not you need to press Fn to do this is also under your control, in

System Settings->Keyboard->Function Keys:

Yes, I saw that... I was just trying to help the original question. Thanks for the additional information.

Cheers and happy new year!