Re: advice needed
Re: advice needed
- Subject: Re: advice needed
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:25:40 -0800
On Jan 13, 2008, at 17:50, Brian Gerke wrote:
Mainly, I would like to be able to use multiple desktops and X11 and
have things function in a useable, predictable manner. Leopard
seems to break earlier third-party multiple-desktop applications,
like Desktop Manager, so it seems I'm stuck with Spaces. Using X11
with Spaces, I get the random desktop-switching and focus problems
that people have been complaining about. I also seem to have a
problem with focusing on an emacs window if I select it using Exposé
(this problem doesn't seem to occur with other X11 windows I've
tried).
This is a known issue. Expose doesn't work right. It is a priority,
and hopefully will be fixed some time soon.
As of early November, the suggestion was to reinstall Tiger's X11 to
resolve some of these issues. Is that still the best course of
action?
/shrug. I can't even guarantee if Tiger's X11 works with spaces,
since I haven't gone that route. The latest release fixes many of the
original Leopard issues, but some still remain.
And will doing that make Spaces behave itself? I'm afraid if I
can't get functional multiple desktops, I may have to revert to
Tiger completely, but I'm hoping to avoid that, since Leopard does
have a number of useful improvements otherwise.
My hope is that it should be working reliably some time in the next
month or so. We're about ready to move over to the xorg-server-1.4-
apple branch sometime soon, and then hopefully we can tackle the
expose / spaces events bug properly.
There is also the possibility that part of the problem lies in
libXplugin itself which is out of my hands as an opensource
contributor (and something that Ben or another Apple employee would
have to fix).
X11 works reliably if you don't use spaces or just keep all your X
windows in one space... that's what I've been doing until this issue
resolves.
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