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: raf <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:57:00 +1100
- Mail-followup-to: email@hidden
Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> You probably have a background process which is running periodically and taking focus away from X11.
>
> http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/ticket/58
thanks. i started auditing my processes and the last 3 times
it happened coincided with GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent running
so that looks like the culprit.
according to:
http://www.google.com/support/installer/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=147176
i should be able to disable this agent with:
defaults write com.google.Keystone.Agent checkInterval 0
but that's a lie. it still runs every 59 minutes (roughly)
causing the full screen toggle.
hmm, i might need to actually uninstall GoogleSoftwareUpdateAgent
and google chrome and google earth to stop this happening. it's a
bit extreme but i can live with it. i'd much rather have X11
working properly than use either of those programs but it's a
shame to have to choose between the two.
perhaps i can disable the agent via its LaunchAgent plist
instead (i.e. com.google.keystone.agent.plist). i'll try
that and if it doesn't work, i'll uninstall all the google
software.
it seems there could be an endless supply of programs that
might steal focus. it's a pity that x11 can't grab focus
and refuse to relinquish it. :-)
many, many thanks.
cheers,
raf
> 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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