Leopards - spaces and lack of window focus

cayco · #1 October 29th, 2007, 06:12 AM

Hi!

I upgraded to Leopard yesterday and I noticed - let's call it a bug - when I switch to another app (using Command+Arrow or Apple+Tab) the app window (laying in other space) I switch to is not active (does not have focus). I have to click on it to regain focus. This is really annoying because I repeatedly have to move my hand away from keyboard and click on mouse.

Anyone else experience this? Is there any workaround?

cheers

cayco

hoeg · #2 October 29th, 2007, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by cayco

Hi!

I upgraded to Leopard yesterday and I noticed - let's call it a bug - when I switch to another app (using Command+Arrow or Apple+Tab) the app window (laying in other space) I switch to is not active (does not have focus). I have to click on it to regain focus. This is really annoying because I repeatedly have to move my hand away from keyboard and click on mouse.

I'm experiencing the same problem except it seems to affect only Firefox and Thunderbird - they wont get focused when I switch to them, but Mail and Safari get the focus.

No idea how to deal with this.. :I

udlose2 · #3 October 29th, 2007, 02:29 PM

I am having a very similar problem too! First off I have a 15" Powerbook G4 1.67GHz 1.5GB RAM - I did a format/clean install of Leopard on Saturday and everything on the install went great. I have not noticed any issues with apps working or anything else except... this annoying issue of the wrong window getting the focus. I have also noticed this where I have an Excel sheet open and then open another spreadsheet and instead of the new one I am opening becoming the main focus window it goes back and shows the first open spreadsheet as the focus and the newly opened one immediately behind it! So I constantly having to click to bring focus to the newest window in many apps. Hopefully this will be a simple bug fix for them to cure in the next update.
Besides this annoyance I have not noticed anything simply not working.

jbarley · #4 October 29th, 2007, 03:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cayco

(using Command+Arrow or Apple+Tab) the app window (laying in other space) I switch to is not active (does not have focus). I have to click on it to regain focus. This is really annoying because I repeatedly have to move my hand away from keyboard and click on mouse.

Do you mean Ctrl+Arrow key to switch spaces?

jb.

cayco · #5 October 29th, 2007, 03:39 PM

Yes, but does it matter?

imfred · #6 October 29th, 2007, 03:51 PM

Tried to install leopard on my Mac mini, when I restarted ,it will show the spinning "clock" for about 5 minutes and then restarted it's self. On and on all afternoon. I held down the C key and was able to bring up Disk Utilities but it failed all testing. Will not eject the disk now.

Eris · #7 November 4th, 2007, 06:56 PM

I'm seeing this same problem (the lack of window focus), most especially with Firefox and Thunderbird; have also seen a hint of it (but not so consistently) with Adium. It doesn't happen when I use ctrl-arrows to go to another screen and then back, but does happen when I use command-tab.

Hard to tell if it's an OS-side bug or a Mozilla bug where the applications aren't handling things in just the right way, I guess.

I don't click to get focus, though, I just use command-` which switches windows and focuses just fine. Whatever happens, must not remove hands from keyboard!

subboy · #8 December 2nd, 2007, 12:12 AM

i have a Mini, Leopard & the only problem i'm having is ctrl-tab between apps, and not getting focus on Firefox (latest version).

if i put all apps into the same space, same problem.

turn Spaces off, problem gone. this is a bug in Firefox dealing with Spaces. probably be easy for them to fix.