[Xquartz-dev] XQuartz 2.2.0_rc3 (includes spaces fix)

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at berkeley.edu
Wed Apr 9 19:06:59 PDT 2008


On Apr 9, 2008, at 06:00, Jamie Kennea wrote:
>
> On Apr 9, 2008, at 12:13 AM, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
>> # X11 works better with spaces
>
> Jeremy, a huge thank you for this. This has been the big stumbling  
> block to moving over to Leopard for my work machine.
>
> However I have a minor nitpick with the current implementation of  
> spaces. I seem to have to double click on an X11 window to activate  
> it when changing to a space. I've tried the following:
>
> In space 1 create an xterm, switch to space 2, create another xterm.
>
> Click on that xterm to focus is, switch back to space one, click on  
> that xterm to focus it -> nothing happens. Click again and the  
> window is focused. Go back to space 1, click on the xterm, click  
> again to focus, rinse, repeat.

I'm not experiencing this at all.  In fact, switching between spaces,  
those xterms have focus (no clicking involved).

> However it doesn't seem to be 100% true. Sometimes one click works,  
> most of the time it doesn't. I can't figure out what the difference  
> is between when one click will do and when you need two.
>
> I'd note that for other apps (e.g. Terminal.app) a window in a  
> different space doesn't lose focus when an window is focused in the  
> current space. So when you switch back to a space, the last Terminal  
> window that had focus in that space still has focus. It would be  
> nice if X11 acted this way, but reducing to a single consistant  
> click to focus would be fine also.

Again, this is "just working" for me as well... not sure what's going  
on with your end... can anyone else confirm this and shed some light  
on the issue?

Thanks,
Jeremy

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