[OS X TeX] Re: Leopard

[Justin C. Walker]

On Nov 4, 2007, at 01:50 , Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 04.11.2007 um 02:21 schrieb Leah Berman:
>
>> When I have Maple in, say, space 3 and try to use the dock to  
>> switch to it from space 1, it will switch to the Maple menubar but  
>> not actually switch to the space
>
> Is any other application behaving like this? This warping would be  
> a great feature! On Tiger I am using a different virtual desktop on  
> which I have to select and move an application from one screen to  
> another. Or close (minimise) it and re-open (maximise) it on the  
> new desktop. Some application offer to open a new window on this  
> other desktop when selected in Dock ... or to minimise! Then you  
> can maximise and hopefully it opens on the active space!

I believe that this is the way that 'Spaces' works.  If your app is  
both running and unassigned to a space, selecting it (either from the  
dock or CMD-TAB) will bring its menu bar up, but no extant windows.   
You can assign apps to specific spaces (or to "all spaces") in the  
Spaces prefs panel.  If assigned, selecting a running app, or  
launching it, will switch you to the assigned space.

There seems to be a bug in the assignment logic, though: assigning an  
app to "all" doesn't seem to survive logout/reboot.  Don't know if  
specific assignments have that problem.

Also, FWIW, if you use F8 to show all spaces, you can drag specific  
windows between spaces.

Justin

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