Ignoring Lion Desktops (perhaps Spaces too)
Marked seems to ignore Lion Desktops. To reproduce:
- Make two Desktops.
- Open Marked.
- Set it to appear on Desktop 2 via Dock icon > Options.
- Go to Desktop 1.
- Command-tab to Marked; its menubar will appear at the top of Desktop 1 even if the marked window is in Desktop 2.
- Go to Desktop 2.
- Command-tab to Marked; its menubar will now appear at the top of Desktop 2.
Expected behaviour: If I command-tab to Marked it should switch to Desktop 2.
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Support Staff 1 Posted by Brett on 11 Oct, 2011 12:59 PM
Hi Nick,
This isn't happening for me, I get the expected behavior. Is there anything else you do to replicate this?
-Brett
2 Posted by Nick Lo on 11 Oct, 2011 10:49 PM
Hi Brett,
I forget to mention my OS X version is 10.7.1.
The steps I mention are pretty much it. I've tried this morning fiddling around with the mission control settings e.g. "Automatically rearrange spaces..." on and off, etc., but no change in behaviour. I even made a new Desktop 3, moved to it, command-tab to Marked and its menubar (but not its open window which is on Desktop 2) appears above in an otherwise empty Desktop 3.
Support Staff 3 Posted by Brett on 12 Oct, 2011 01:57 PM
Do you have any windows open in Marked? I can get this to happen if there are no windows open, but when I open a recent document in Marked, it switches to the expected Desktop.
4 Posted by Nick Lo on 12 Oct, 2011 11:27 PM
Yep I mentioned in the first post "even if the marked window is in Desktop 2".
I've been using Marked with MacVim so I thought I'd try with just TextEdit and while doing so found something else that may help:
My setup: 3 desktop spaces. In desktop 3 is Marked with the "Welcome to Marked" and another Marked window with a preview of a document I was working on in MacVim.
I'm in desktop 2. I open a TextEdit document write some test text and save it to the Desktop. I go to Marked File > Open. It greys but no dialog appears on Desktop 2. Instead it appears on Desktop 3 which I move to and open the TextEdit file from the desktop. I then realise I cannot get the Marked window to move to Desktop 2 (that's most likely as I'm a bit stupid with Lion's desktop spaces), give up and quit Marked.
I move to Desktop 2. Drag the file icon from the top of the TextEdit window to the Marked dock icon. Marked starts up fine and shows the preview of the TextEdit document. I move to Desktop 3, command-tab to Marked and again only the menubar appears in Desktop 3 with no Marked window. I have to control-2 to move to Desktop 2 and there is my TextEdit document and the Marked preview window for that document.
I should also mention that I've been having some command-tab (is that called Exposé in Lion?) issues as well. It seems to just become unavailable at times. Not sure if that's related yet but worth mentioning.
I'm about to upgrade to 10.7.2 and if this behaviour changes I will let you know.
p.s. In spite of the above minor niggle I'm really enjoying using Marked on a ~3500 word (so far) report which I could do in plain text for a change.
5 Posted by Nick Lo on 12 Oct, 2011 11:36 PM
Aha and whaddya know... even before I do that 10.7.2 update I find something new:
I was in Desktop 1, command-tabbed to Software Update, it's menubar appears but not its dialog window. I move to Desktop 2 and its dialog has appeared there. I move to Desktop 3, command-tab to Software Update and only its menubar appears.
So, obviously this issue is not exclusive to Marked and therefore more likely to be a Lion desktop spaces issue and/or an issue on my setup, than a Marked one.
Lets hope the 10.7.2 upgrade and some system repairs sort it out...
Support Staff 6 Posted by Brett on 13 Oct, 2011 01:42 AM
I'm going to mark this as closed for now, if you do determine there's something Marked specific going on, please let me know. Hope the 10.7.2 update resolves this for you!
7 Posted by Nick Lo on 13 Oct, 2011 04:15 AM
I have a feeling this reply is going to auto open the ticket again (which isn't my intention) but just as an update for completeness: 10.7.2 doesn't resolve the issue.
Brett closed this discussion on 13 Oct, 2011 02:17 PM.