X11 keeps pulling me to the space it's running in

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X11 keeps pulling me to the space it's running in

Hi,

I have been having two issues with X11. One is a problem with spaces and X11. X11 keeps pulling me back to the space where X11 is running making it impossible to do anything in any other space because I get pulled back every few seconds. Is there some setting I can change that will fix that? I'm already using X11-2.1.3 from XQuartz. Is there anything else I can try to get X11 to leave alone and let me work on something else while my simulation in X11 is running? Also, periodically when I try to select a window opened in X11 by clicking on it, another window jumps to the front and becomes selected instead. Is there something I can do about this?

thanks

MacBookPro 15", Mac OS X (10.5.2), 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo, 2 GB RAM

Posted on Feb 14, 2008 5:01 AM

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Answer 1

Bill Scott

Level 6

11,465 points

Feb 14, 2008 6:37 AM in response to krisdpeterson

I've got the same bug. I've also noticed that if, for example, I have an X11 application running on screen 1, and Safari on screen 2, and I move the cursor to the position on screen 2 that corresponds to a menu button with a contextual dialog box or whatever the mouse-over pop-up is called, it appears on screen 2, shortly followed by the space change.

I haven't tried it, but I was thinking that turning off ffm would help. Have you activated it (focus follows mouse in X11)?

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Answer 2

Feb 15, 2008 7:34 AM in response to Bill Scott

Thanks for the answer. I don't have ffm turned on, so that's probably not the problem. How do you do that anyway? I also haven't had menus open up, but maybe that's just because I've never clicked in the correct spot. But thanks again for the answer. At least I know now it's a bug and not something I can do anything about. I guess I'll just have to live with it until someone fixes it.

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Answer 3

Bill Scott

Level 6

11,465 points

Feb 15, 2008 12:42 PM in response to krisdpeterson

I just did this and it solved the problem:


 defaults write com.apple.x11 wmclickthrough 0
 defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_ffm 0

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Answer 4

gglenng

Level 1

10 points

Apr 21, 2008 1:56 PM in response to krisdpeterson

I've found that minimizing the offending app's X11 window to the Dock before switching to another space stops the "pulling back to the X11 space" event.

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Answer 5

Apr 21, 2008 8:53 PM in response to krisdpeterson

I had the same problem as you, requiring minimizing X11 windows to the Dock before switching spaces, until installing the latest X11 v.2.2 (http://homepage.mac.com/sao1/X11/index.html). Now it all works as it should.

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