Spaces Freeze

"me too"

i never saw this in leopard. when i upgraded to snow leopard i started at 10.6.2. this started happening a couple weeks after the upgrade. i'm on a mac pro.

my way out of it is to mouse open the bluetooth preferences and disconnect the keyboard via the gear drop-down (at which point the spaces animation disappears from the desktop). then, either explicitly connect the keyboard in the bluetooth preferences pane, or just type a few keys on the keyboard to cause a reconnect.

when it rains it pours. i can go a day or two with no occurrences or, like today, it'll happen a dozen times over the course of a few hours.

i'm using the built-in bluetooth with a logitech mx5000 keyboard and a logitech mx1000 mouse.

Message was edited by: PoochBushey

This problem had gone away for me, but has returned EVEN WORSE with the last Security update. It's TRULY annoying, since I love Spaces and would rather not do without them/it.

There is a work-around, which I found on another board, but it's not a fix. You can configure Expose to put the screen to sleep [I use the upper left corner], and then take it in and out of sleep by moving the cursor up tot he upper left twice. Not the best fix, but it's better than logging out, etc.

HTH,

Nick in Florida

Same here
Apple, do something about this…

Apple doesn't read the threads on these forums for input. If you want Apple to know about this you are going to have to use the feedback page.

Allan

As of Mac OS X 10.6.3, this bug *STILL HASN'T BEEN FIXED*.

I am so disappointed at how "efficient" Apple is. I have filed the same bug over 10 times, along with Finder's Set As Default bug.

I have this problem too and while I await a fix form Apple I have found a simpler cure. For me I don't lose control of the F-keys and I find using them often cures the Spaces freeze faster than anything else.

I doubt its the order I hit them, but in case it is, I try a few jabs of F11/F12, hit the Eject button and then F1/F2, followed by F3. Hope this works for some of you guys too, its certainly easier than logging out or anything else.

Precisely the same problem here, Snow Leopard 10.6.4 on a MacBook Pro.

I'm having the same issue but it's constantly happening. Everytime I switch to a space, my keyboard freezes. I open up Activity Monitor, kill the Dock process and it works again. But then as soon as I switch to a new space, it freezes again.

*It has nothing to do with any of those apps - it's the spaces. I disabled spaces and the problem stopped happening. It's a bug with spaces.*

I've had this problem and didn't know what to do.

I've changed Space preferences so that I use the Option key (not the Control key) to change Spaces. This has provided a stable Spaces experience that has lated for weeks - and given me confidence to post a response now.

There are two settings to change: Option-Arrow and Option-Number in the preferences pane.

I changed briefly back to using the Control key, and the problem recurred almost immediately. Hard power-down of the Mac, restart and change the Preferences back to Option.

So for me at least, using Option instead of Control has solved my problem.

Cheers! Gary

Hi,

I think the problem is the application of Things, because when not running, it is OK. Things start and use the keyboard shortcut for new todo (CTR ALT SPACE), the problem is back.

Hi again,

"Things" is not the issue in my case - I don't have it installed 😉

Cheers! gary2002

Glad I found this thread and the Expose sleep work around. The reboots were getting painful. Nothing to do but wait for a fix.

Another vote for this. Disabled Spaces for now. The sleep thing is a good idea though.

The problem is definitely manifesting in spaces seizing the keyboard, but I think the problem may be with any number of apps that try to get or put information dynamically. (i.e. Textexpander's snippits, Things' global new task, Alfred's snip, etc.) I'm no developer, but maybe there is some kind of bug in the cocoa api for injecting or scraping text that's throwing this error?

This issue only happens to me periodically, but I find that if I switch to a space and try to type before the spaces icon is gone, that's when the keyboard gets stuck. However, a simple remedy is to go to the Login window and just log back on. There is no need to reboot or anything like that. Also, in regard to previous discussions, I do not have TextExpander.