[Xquartz-dev] XQuartz 2.7.0_beta2 screen jumping with unison

Viv Kendon V.Kendon at leeds.ac.uk
Wed Oct 5 14:16:57 PDT 2011


I have XQuartz 2.7.0_beta2 on 10.6.8 on a MacBookAir (first 
model), and unison 2.40.1 installed through fink (so it has 
a gtk interface I believe, not a native mac one).  I have 
six Spaces configured with various X clients open on four of 
them.  When I invoke unison (at a prompt in an xterm) and it 
opens the GUI windows (two of them, one to pick the 
profile), Spaces immediately switches to the previous Space 
I was using with X clients open on it.  Which is really 
annoying, but not actually unusable.  Is there anything I 
can do to stop this happening?  Is it something to do with 
my set up or is it a known bug?  It doesn't happen on my 
newer MacBookAir, also 10.6.8 but with Xquartz 2.3.6 (as 
came with SL I think).

It isn't the only annoying thing I have: when I switch 
between different Spaces, quite often the window layering of 
X windows flips front to back, but the mouse or keystrokes 
still go into what used to be the front window.  I have ffm 
enabled, so it is particularly noticable, because the mouse 
is in a different window, it is still behaving according to 
the original ordering.  But surely ffm isn't causing the 
window layering to flip, which would be annoying even 
without ffm?  And this happens on both MacAirs.

many thanks,
-- Viv
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Dr Viv Kendon    http://quantum.leeds.ac.uk/~viv
tel: +44 113 343 4864      Physics and Astronomy
Quantum Information Group    University of Leeds



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