Re: XQuartz - sudden flips out of full-screen mode?
Re: XQuartz - sudden flips out of full-screen mode?
- Subject: Re: XQuartz - sudden flips out of full-screen mode?
- From: Jeremy Huddleston <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 11:32:48 -0700
On May 14, 2012, at 9:06 AM, Tom Lane <email@hidden> wrote:
> Lars-Johan Liman <email@hidden> writes:
>> I use XQuartz in full-screen mode (being an old Unix dog ;-). Every now
>> and then (actually regularly every X minutes) XQuartz will just flip and
>> take me to the Aqua screen. XQuartz is still the active program, and all
>> I have to do is to type Alt-Cmd-A, click in the window I was working in,
>> and I'm back. But it's annoying to have your train of thoughts
>> interrupted by your screen playing cheeky tricks at you. ;-)
>
> I wonder whether this is the same thing as the "momentary loss of focus"
> issue that I and many other people have been seeing for a long time.
> What I see (not using full screen) is that the X11 windows transiently
> change header color indicating loss of keyboard focus, and anything you
> are typing goes into the aether. Usually, though not always, focus is
> restored after a second or so. I wouldn't be surprised if the same
> glitch in full-screen mode includes dropping out of full-screen.
>
> The only thing I've been able to reliably correlate this with is iCal;
> it will happen exactly one minute before an iCal alert is due to pop up.
> But I've also sometimes seen it at times when I didn't think iCal was
> doing anything.
Yeah, this sounds like http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/ticket/58 ... which unfortunately doesn't have much hope of being fixed any time soon, not least of which because I have no idea why it's happening and it doesn't happen for me =/
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