problem with X11 toggling full screen temporarily by itself
problem with X11 toggling full screen temporarily by itself
- Subject: problem with X11 toggling full screen temporarily by itself
- From: raf <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:17:54 +1100
macbookpro-mid2010, macosx-10.6.4, xquartz-{2.3.5,2.5.3}
hi,
i spend most of the time in full screen X11. ever since i
started using macosx-10.6.x, i've had the problem that
occasionally, X11 toggles out of full screen mode
temporarily for its own reasons. it's behaving almost (but
not quite) as though i'd pressed Command-Option-A twice even
though i haven't.
full screen usually comes back by itself within a split
second or a few seconds. sometimes it takes longer. normally
i wait for it to come back by itself. if it takes more than
a few seconds i give up waiting for it and switch to another
app and back again in order to bring back full screen mode
(because, strangely, pressing Command-Option-A when this
happens doesn't bring back full screen mode).
also, when i was using xmodmap to remap the capslock key to
underscore, the toggling out of full screen and back would
be accompanied by telltale underscores littering whatever
xterm had the keyboard focus. if i left my laptop for a
while there would often be several new underscores when i
returned indicating that the toggling had happened several
times in my absence. so whatever is happening involves a
simulated capslock keypress or two. at least that's not
happening anymore now that i'm using the lovely programs
KeyRemap4MacBook and PCKeyboardHack to remap capslock.
i thought it might have something to do with ntpd adjusting
the time but the last time it happened (a few seconds before
i typed this) was about 3 minutes after the most recent ntpd
time update so that's not it.
any ideas what might be happening?
is there anything i can do to stop it?
cheers,
raf
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