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: Bob <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:08:48 -0600
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:27 PM, robert delius royar
<email@hidden> wrote:
> Tue, 26 Oct 2010 (11:38 -0600 UTC) Bob wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 5:54 AM, robert delius royar <email@hidden>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> This debate on losing focus has cropped on on at least two lists I read
>>> and
>>> on the Apple support forums. I have seen a number of candidates listed
>>> as
>>> the cause (e.g. third-party update agents, iCal agents, iTunes agents,
>>> &c.),
>>> and in many cases users have reported that stopping those agents fixes
>>> the
>>> problem. But in the follow ups, most report back that the fix was
>>> temporary. The only thing I can say is that on my SL 2010 iMac and MBP,
>>> the
>>> loss is so fast that it is not noticeable in most cases. But then, I'll
>>> probably have to recall that statement now that I have made it publically
>>> *8^) I suspect there is a cargo cult lurking in this real anomaly.
>>
>> Do you use rootless or rooted (ie, fullscreen) mode?
>
> rootless, and on my old PPC the loss was enough that I dropped characters
> while typing in an xterm. Sometimes entire words would be lost. In other
> cases the text would go to the wrong window, which I think is caused by an
> intersection of this bug and the one where coming out of screen sleep causes
> the x11 windows to be on top but not with focus.
Yes, but my point was that in rooted mode it is still painful even on
a modern fast mac.
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