Re: Does anyone notice involuntary space switching when using Spaces with XQuartz?
Re: Does anyone notice involuntary space switching when using Spaces with XQuartz?
- Subject: Re: Does anyone notice involuntary space switching when using Spaces with XQuartz?
- From: "Cook, Rich" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:17:53 -0700
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: Does anyone notice involuntary space switching when using Spaces with XQuartz?
Hmmm...Perhaps inconveniently for that theory, I do not have the "switch to a space with open windows" checkbox checked. :-)
BTW, who or what is Wayland?
-- Rich
On Jun 29, 2011, at 2:34 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 16:39, Jamie Kennea <email@hidden> wrote:
>> On Jun 29, 2011, at 4:27 PM, Cook, Rich wrote:
>>
>>> So I guess the first question is, are others having this problem?
>>
>> Yes, I see this behaviour using some of our local software that was written in IDL.
>
> It's a very well known problem when Spaces is configured to "switch to
> a Space with open windows" (checkbox at very bottom of System
> Preferences > Spaces), and it's not fixable without a fair amount of
> hacking because of the way X11 interacts with Core Graphics. I think
> the current plan is to wait for Wayland, because X11's architecture
> makes doing the right thing *very* difficult. (Short summary:
> because everything must go through a single X11 server, as far as Core
> Graphics is concerned there is only one program running which owns
> every X11 window.)
>
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