Why does lion switch away from applications on wake?

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Why does lion switch away from applications on wake?

Everytime I open the lid of my computer and resume from sleep, Lion switches me away from the full screen app that I was on. For example, if I have Safari open and the Mail app open, and I close the lid of my computer while on Safari, when I open the lid of my macbook pro, it will switch me over to the mail app. This seems to happen to any application that is open. If the mail app is open and fullscreen, and I put my computer to sleep, on resume it will switch me to fullscreen Safari. Does anyone know why this is?

I have a mid 2010 mackbook pro.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Aug 16, 2011 7:49 PM

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am28111 Author

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Aug 17, 2011 4:45 AM in response to am28111

If anyone is curious, I ended up solving the problem by simply deleting my user account and creating another account; I transferred my files to the new account.

This seems to have fixed the problem, I no longer have random switches on wake from sleep.

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am28111 Author

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Nov 3, 2011 12:38 PM in response to am28111

Actually, upon further testing, it looks like this issue is related to the "require password after 5 minutes on sleep or screen saver begins" option under the security preference pane. Checking the box and resuming the laptop from sleep before 5 minutes has passed causes desktops to switch. A workaround would be to use immediately but the issue is still quite unfortunate.

I would file a bug report but am unsure of how.

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sebnozzi

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May 13, 2012 11:07 AM in response to am28111

You're a genious man! Thanks for the pointer!

The amount of time in the setting does not seem to matter. In my case it was 4 hours. Makes no difference.

After disabling the setting the problem does not happen anymore.

You brought new life into my Mac ;-) Thanks!

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