Re: problem with X11 toggling full screen temporarily by itself
Re: problem with X11 toggling full screen temporarily by itself
- Subject: Re: problem with X11 toggling full screen temporarily by itself
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 19:53:51 -0700
You probably have a background process which is running periodically and taking focus away from X11.
http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/ticket/58
On Oct 24, 2010, at 19:17, raf wrote:
> 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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