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One issue that has bothered me ever since OS X came out, is how windows are sorted. It used to be when one had an app in the foreground, all its windows would stay in the foreground.
In OS X, windows get all mixed together. I've become somewhat complacent to that. But a growing issue is other windows coming to the foreground. For example, I was downloading a file in the background and the dmg mounted and then a license agreement popped up and took priority on my screen. Many apps do this sort of thing. I was showing something in Safari, and when Keynote finished saving it launched itself into the foreground.
The issue pretty much always occurs when I'm multitasking. Aside from not doing that, is there any way to force app windows to stay where they are? In Leopard, it's even more annoying that when an app wants attention, it forces my Space to change.
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> But a growing issue is other windows coming to the foreground.
You're running Leopard?
That is a bug in Leopard. Windows belonging to apps that should be quietly bouncing their Dock icons for our attention will instead leap into the foreground with no regard for the important work that they've just interrupted.
(Okay, I don't know that Apple considers it a bug. But I and a few hundred other people have reported it as such.)
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As I mis-typed in a post last night, yes, I'm using Leopdard.
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[quote M A V I C]As I mis-typed in a post last night, yes, I'm using Leopdard.
LeopDard is OSXXX?
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This has bugged me too, big time, because especially on older (slower) machines, the new window popping up -- you end up clicking on something you didn't want. So I too would like the answer to this. And also-- I'm not running Leopard; I'm running either Panther or Tiger... so this is an across-the-board OS X problem.
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[quote PeterB]This has bugged me too, big time, because especially on older (slower) machines, the new window popping up -- you end up clicking on something you didn't want. So I too would like the answer to this. And also-- I'm not running Leopard; I'm running either Panther or Tiger... so this is an across-the-board OS X problem.
And if you use a lot of key commands, you end up closing windows, renaming files, sending emails, hitting cancel... all on things you didn't want to.
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Yeah, this has bothered me too for a long time, in Panther and now in Tiger.
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[quote M A V I C][quote PeterB]This has bugged me too, big time, because especially on older (slower) machines, the new window popping up -- you end up clicking on something you didn't want. So I too would like the answer to this. And also-- I'm not running Leopard; I'm running either Panther or Tiger... so this is an across-the-board OS X problem.
And if you use a lot of key commands, you end up closing windows, renaming files, sending emails, hitting cancel... all on things you didn't want to.
Exactly!
The only thing I can find-- on quick search-- that may help with this is ASM. I haven't tried it, though.
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[quote BigGuynRusty]
LeopDard is OSXXX?
BGnR
I think it might be Leotard. Assuming "OSXXX" are the runs and snags in the Leotard.
Could also be just some retard named Leo.
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