[Xquartz-dev] FYI: major issuie with 2.3.3 and Mac OS X 10.5.7

Lawson English lenglish5 at cox.net
Wed May 13 14:37:15 PDT 2009


Lawson English wrote:
> I opened this ticket for the issue:
>
> http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/ticket/263
>
> This is a duplicate of ticket #262 except that I AM running the latest 
> version of x11 already. I had myriad permissions errors but fixed 
> those with the disk utility. I reinstalled x11 2.3.3 and rebooted 
> several times but the symptom remains:
>
> when x11 starts up, the app that launched it (e.g. WingIDE) never 
> appears, but if I click on the x11 icon in the dock, the WingIDE 
> window appears, but all MacOS X windows (inluding x11's menu) 
> disappear and a grey background appears.
>
> Just a heads up, and wondering if anyone else is seeing this?
>

And... Several people pointed out that apparently full-screen mode was 
activated. Once I reset that in preferences, the issue went away.

Thanks all.


Lawson


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