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Hi,
since Mavericks the application switcher is not working correct. When I switch to an other application using cmd-TAB the menue of the other application is shown, but no windows of this application will be shown. In older versions of OS X the app switching via cmd-TAB was no problem.
Is ist possible to bring back the old behavior of the shortcut cmd-TAB?
Gerhard
Deleting the preferences folder completly (user) and shutdown the system per terminal (no process should be able to write any preferences) does not solve the problem. I have also removed all preferences panes and this din’t solve the problem too.
… by a font conflict, or by corruption of the file system or of certain system caches.
There was another Problem: The zoom of the Dock was freezing and the klick into a menue had an other behavior than normaly. And this problem is gone after deactivating all Fonts and cleaning the font cache.
Save login brings the same results.
Do you have more than one space in Mission Control, or do you use more than one display?
Both. Two displays and a couple of Spaces. Most but not all applications in full screen, and in Mission Control preferences "displays have seperate spaces" is off (because I’ll using Photoshop palettes on the second screen).
Disconnect one display and delete all but one space. Test.
Ah, this is a good idea! :-) I'll try it tomorrow. Now it's 2 o'clock in the night and I have to go to bed.
Thank You so much for Your help.
Deleting Spaces did not help.
But I should know it: I have deleted all my preferences earlier, and it was not helping. So it is not a problem of preferences. And when it is not a problem of preferences, deleting will change nothing.
I have now two options I think:
Merely deleting the preference files of a running process will not do what you think it does in Mavericks.
Back up all data.
In the Finder, hold down the option key and select
Go ▹ Library
from the menu bar. From the Library folder, move the following item to the Trash, if it exists:
Application Support/Dock
and move the following items to the Desktop (again, some may not exist):
Here, * stands for a long string of letters and numbers.
Next, triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
open $TMPDIR../C
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.
Paste into the Terminal window by pressing the key combination command-V. A folder should open. Inside it there may be a file named "com.apple.dock.iconcache". If there is, drag it to the Trash.
Log out, log back in, and test. If you still have the issue, put the items on the Desktop back where they came from and post again. Otherwise, delete the items.
Linc Davis wrote:
Merely deleting the preference files of a running process will not do what you think it does in Mavericks.
Yes, I know. I put all preferences files in to the trash can, and immediately killed the system via terminal. So the systetem had no chance to write anything into the preferences folder. After reboot the preferences were reset to factory settings.
Linc Davis wrote:
from the menu bar. From the Library folder, move the following item to the Trash, if it exists:
Application Support/Dock
and move the following items to the Desktop (again, some may not exist):
- Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.dock.*.plist
- Preferences/com.apple.dock.db
- Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist
open $TMPDIR../C
Inside it there may be a file named "com.apple.dock.iconcache". If there is, drag it to the Trash.
Log out, log back in, and test. If you still have the issue, put the items on the Desktop back where they came from and post again. Otherwise, delete the items.
I still have the issue :-(
Back up all data.
Hold down the option key and select
Go ▹ Library
from the Finder menu bar. From the Library folder, move the entire contents of the subfolder "Caches" (not the folder itself) to the Trash, then log out and log back in. Empty the Trash. Test.
If the problem is not solved, open the Library folder again in the same way and move the entire contents of the subfolder "Preferences" (not the folder itself) to a new folder on the Desktop (not to the Trash.) Log out and log back in. The account will then be pretty much in a clean state. Test. If you can still reproduce the problem, then put the Preferences folder contents back, replacing any that were created in their place, log out, and log in again.
If you can't reproduce the problem in the clean state, then start putting things back in the Preferences folder piecemeal, starting with items that seem unrelated to the issue. I can’t be more specific. After each group of items, repeat the log out/log in cycle and test. At some point, the problem may reappear, in which case you know that something in the last batch of files you restored is at fault. If it never reappears, the problem is solved.
Deleting the cashes was the first thing I did. And deleting the preferences didn't bring the solution (refer to my post 05.02.2014 00:57). That's my problem! ;-) This is unbelievable!
I've known problems like yours to be caused by forgotten spaces or multiple displays, including video adapters that were not connected to a display, or a display that was turned off. I'm taking your word for it that you have absolutely ruled out those possibilities.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the icon grid.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left. If you don't see that menu, select
View ▹ Show Log List
from the menu bar.
Click the Clear Display icon in the toolbar. Then try the action that you're having trouble with again. Select any messages that appear in the Console window. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
It’s not possible, I get tausands of error messages from Safari. :-( It seems that there is much more defect!
So, I think it’s better to reinstall the hole system and import all things from Backup.
But I found something interesting I think. Perhaps it brings some information about this problem:
Feb 9 00:10:53 iMac27thin.local talagent[237]: CGSBindSurface: Invalid window 0x21
Feb 9 00:10:53 iMac27thin.local WindowServer[118]: _CGXWindowRightsRelinquish: Invalid window 0x21
Feb 9 00:10:53 iMac27thin.local talagent[237]: CGSConnectionRelinquishWindowRights(cid, result, reservedRights): CGError 1001 on line 875
Feb 9 00:10:53 iMac27thin.local WindowServer[118]: _CGXTerminateWindowList: Invalid window 33
Feb 9 00:11:00 iMac27thin.local WindowServer[118]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "DDAssist" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
Feb 9 00:11:01 iMac27thin.local talagent[237]: CGSBindSurface: Invalid window 0x41
Feb 9 00:11:01 iMac27thin.local WindowServer[118]: _CGXWindowRightsRelinquish: Invalid window 0x41
Feb 9 00:11:01 iMac27thin.local talagent[237]: CGSConnectionRelinquishWindowRights(cid, result, reservedRights): CGError 1001 on line 875
Feb 9 00:11:02 iMac27thin.local WindowServer[118]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally reenabled by application "DDAssist" after 3.09 seconds (server forcibly re-enabled them after 1.00 seconds)
Feb 9 00:11:02 iMac27thin.local talagent[237]: CGSBindSurface: Invalid window 0x40
Feb 9 00:11:02 iMac27thin.local WindowServer[118]: _CGXWindowRightsRelinquish: Invalid window 0x40
Feb 9 00:11:02 iMac27thin.local talagent[237]: CGSConnectionRelinquishWindowRights(cid, result, reservedRights): CGError 1001 on line 875
Feb 9 00:11:15 iMac27thin.local WindowServer[118]: CGXSetWindowListSystemAlpha: Invalid window 137 (index 0/1)
Feb 9 00:11:16 iMac27thin.local WindowServer[118]: disable_update_timeout: UI updates were forcibly disabled by application "FileSyncCore" for over 1.00 seconds. Server has re-enabled them.
Feb 9 00:11:19 iMac27thin.local WindowServer[118]: common_reenable_update: UI updates were finally
Feb 9 00:17:10 iMac27thin.local WindowServer[118]: _CGXGetWindowOrderingGroup: Operation on a window 0x57 requiring rights 0x5 by caller Photoshop
Feb 9 00:17:20 iMac27thin.local modo[540]: CGWindowContextCreate: failed to create window context delegate.
Feb 9 00:17:25 iMac27thin.local WindowServer[118]: _CGXGetWindowOrderingGroup: Operation on a window 0x65 requiring rights 0x5 by caller Photoshop
Feb 9 00:17:40 iMac27thin.local WindowServer[118]: _CGXGetWindowOrderingGroup: Operation on a window 0x57 requiring rights 0x5 by caller Photoshop
Feb 9 00:17:51 iMac27thin.local Dock[249]: CGSSetWindowTransformsAtPlacement: Failed
Feb 9 00:17:51 iMac27thin.local WindowServer[118]: CGXSetWindowTransform: Invalid window
Feb 9 00:17:51 iMac27thin.local Dock[249]: CGSSetWindowTransformAtPlacement: Failed
Feb 9 00:17:51 iMac27thin.local Dock[249]: CGSSetWindowTransformsAtPlacement: Failed
Feb 9 00:17:51 iMac27thin.local WindowServer[118]: CGXSetWindowTransform: Invalid window
Feb 9 00:17:51 iMac27thin.local Dock[249]: CGSSetWindowTransformAtPlacement: Failed
Feb 9 00:17:51 iMac27thin.local Dock[249]: CGSSetWindowTransformsAtPlacement: Failed
Feb 9 00:17:51 iMac27thin.local WindowServer[118]: CGXSetWindowTransform: Invalid window
Feb 9 00:17:51 iMac27thin.local Dock[249]: CGSSetWindowTransformAtPlacement: Failed
Feb 9 00:17:51 iMac27thin.local Dock[249]: CGSSetWindowTransformsAtPlacement: Failed
Feb 9 00:17:51 iMac27thin.local WindowServer[118]: CGXSetWindowTransform: Invalid window
Feb 9 00:17:51 iMac27thin.local Dock[249]: CGSSetWindowTransformAtPlacement: Failed
Feb 9 00:17:51 iMac27thin.local Dock[249]: CGSSetWindowTransformsAtPlacement: Failed
Feb 9 00:17:51 iMac27thin.local WindowServer[118]: CGXSetWindowTransform: Invalid window
Feb 9 00:17:51 iMac27thin.local Dock[249]: CGSSetWindowTransformAtPlacement: Failed
I just noticed this:
Most but not all applications in full screen
The Application Switcher behaves in just the way you describe with full-screen applications. It's normal.
Cmd-TAB is not working in 10.9
