Well, you'd have to switch to space 6...
Exactly...only once I'm in full screen I can't find a way to do that: is there something I'm missing?
I think the only way is the menubar control. In System Preferences-
Spaces, click the option to add a control to the menu bar...
If I go to screen 6 first then cmd-opt-a into full screen, well, things just get worse, with the effects mentioned below. In the Spaces preferences I have unchecked the option to have Spaces switch to a screen with active windows when selecting an app, but this sort of switching still happens,
Are you using 2.3.1 or 2.3.2_rc4? 2.3.2_rc4 should support that spaces checkbox.
(How did I get into this state in the first place? well, I was trying to test the cmd-opt-a thing in another app, and RetroOffice (X11 build of NeoOffice) was open on Space 6...it's an app bundle so it is natural to start it in a different space. and yes, it does react to cmd-opt-a, by doing "select all".)
Well if it's an X11 application with an app bundle... then it's either got its own X11 server or its using ours... which is the case?
It uses xquartz, it doesn't bundle its own: http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/RetroOffice
Ans meta-alt-a is a key-sequence in RetroOffice for select-all?
Finally, something also appears to have changed with the cut and paste in relation to RetroOffice, I can't find a combination of pasteboard options that allows the ctr-c and ctl-v that should work within the app to function properly.
How so?
ctl-c on a selection followed by ctl-v pastes something previously copied from elsewhere in X11 land, or whatever cmd-c last copied. I have the X11 preferences window open and the only pasteboard option I have checked is "enable syncing. So RetroOffice is not copying (or cutting) into the buffer it then pastes from. But I'll have to get back to you after I've had a chance to revert to the previous RetroOffice version and test in a more vanilla account, log out, reboot, etc., etc..
Well, file this bug with Retrooffice then. If all you have selected is the 'enable syncing' option and no sub option, that's the same as it being completely disabled =/