[moneydance] Odd behavior in Spaces (Mac)

[Jaap van Dodeweerd]

It's submitted in Trac already for a while.


On 11 jun 2008, at 04:44, Gordon Alley wrote:

> I'm running OS X 10.5.3 on my iMac. I'm using Spaces, in a 2 x 2  
> matrix
> (i.e., 4 desktops).
> For those not familiar with it, Spaces is a new standard feature of  
> OS X
> that allows me to set up a number of virtual desktops. Hitting F8 will
> display all my desktops (reduced so that all of them fit on my  
> screen),
> using the matrix dimensions I've selected, in this pattern:
> 1  2
> 3  4
> There's an icon in the menu bar that displays the number of the  
> desktop that
> is displayed.
>
> I've configured it so that Moneydance always launches into desktop 4.
>
> Typically, when I have several apps running in different desktops,  
> if I
> click on an app in the Dock that is in some other desktop, that  
> desktop will
> immediately become the active desktop (with appropriate animation, of
> course), with its frontmost window in the foreground.
>
> Here's where it gets strange for MD. Often, if I am in desktop 1,  
> and MD is
> running in desktop 4, when I click on the MD dock icon (or use CMD- 
> TAB to
> switch to it), Moneydance will appear in desktop 1 with no windows  
> (i.e.,
> the menu bar says Moneydance, but there are no MD windows showing).  
> If I hit
> F8 to see all the desktops, I can see the MD windows in desktop 4  
> where they
> are supposed to be. If I then click in desktop 4 in the matrix, that  
> desktop
> becomes active, and all is well from then on.
>
> But this behavior isn't consistent (or at least I haven't discerned  
> the
> pattern). When I started this message, MD was showing the odd  
> behavior I
> described above. But at the moment, when I switch to MD, desktop 4  
> slides
> into view with MD and its windows, just like it should.
>
> It occurs to me that this might be a Java issue of some sort.
>
> Just thought I'd mention it to see if any other Mac users have  
> noticed this
> behavior.
>
> -Gordon
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