On Nov 10, 2008, at 6:30 PM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
I guess I was confused to see the window first appear against the Apple desktop when I thought X11 was in fullscreen mode. When I tried this under Apple's stock X11 from 10.5.4 I don't remember seeing this,m i thought new X11 windows were always drawn off- screen in the X11 root window.
No... The fullscreen support was just added in 2.3.2_beta2 (or maybe beta1, I forget)... It was not present in the X11 version with 10.5.4... so with that X11.app, you only had the rootless mode.
You are right, not full-screen, there was always an OS-X menu bar. I seem to remember some setting that toggled whether the root X11 desktop would show or not while in X11. I might be confused about this. Anyway, I just retried it with the "Focus on new window" turned off, and I got the same result. I quit X11 and restarted, and got it again. I am seeing strange things when just switching in and out of fullscreen with cmd-option-A repeatedly. The first time I switch out of fullscreen with cmd-option-A I see the Apple desktop, menu bar, dock as expected. When I switch back to fullscreen mode and out again, I see the menu bar and dock, but I still see the X11 root window background and nothing from my Apple desktop. If I command-tab to another app, the X11 desktop remains and I'm unable to access any items on the Apple desktop until I quit X11. I don't personally keep things on the desktop, but this seems like an issue. Has anyone else seen this? Perhaps this is specific to my wm. I compiled it under 10.5.4. Maybe time to recompile? Dave