On Nov 13, 2007 1:28 PM, Martin Costabel <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> I don't have a second X11 icon in the dock, only the one that appears
> when I either double-click the X11.app icon in /Applications/Utilities
> or run some program that needs X11. Clicking that icon in the dock
> (nobody talked about double-clicking dock icons BTW, but I digress ;-) )
> brings X11 to the foreground. This is as it should be.
>
> What is not as it should be is that when I double-click the X11 icon in
> /Applications/Utilities while X11 is already running, it starts a second
> xterm and then a third and so on. This is unlike, let's say
> Terminal.app, where starting the app opens a window, but double-clicking
> it again does not open a second window, it only brings the app to the
> foreground.
Ok, I see what you're saying. I can't say this bothers me, but to each his own.
> But this is just a minor inconsistency, less annoying than others
> everybody seems to have got used to. For me the most annoying little
> inconsistency is that when I open an xterm by typing "xterm" in a
> Terminal window, the xterm window opens on top of everything and looks
> like it had focus, but in reality it does not; one first needs to click
> it. It often happens to me that I have already typed a line of text or
> one or two commands before I notice that they went into the wrong window...
I do find that very annoying, BTW.
Cheers,
-n8
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>>>-- Nathaniel Gray -- Caltech Computer Science ------>
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