Recent changes to bugs

Pager stays on single desktop on Intel Macs

Fri, 17 Mar 2006 22:18:02 -0000

Great program - I still use it, even though it seems
that there is little activity of late?

On my new iMac Intel Core Duo, the desktop pager does
not stay "sticky" when switching between desktops. It
behaves just like another window opened on the
particular desktop. This is true both for the
prebuilt (PPC) binary, and after I recompiled natively
for Intel.

The pager in the menu bar works fine, though.

BTW: The Intel compatability of this program is
definitely better than that of CodeTek VD, where ALL
widnows are sticky (and don't show up on the pager at
all). Kindof defeats the purpose of a multiple
workspace manager in the first place...

-tor

Does not launch in Tiger / Trace/BPT trap

Daniel Jabbour — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:55:21 -0000

When I try to launch the application in 10.4 Tiger, I get the following
errors:

djabbour:/Applications/Desktop Manager.app/Contents/MacOS
djabbour$ ./Desktop\ Manager
dyld: Symbol not found: _kCGSMovementParent
Referenced from: /Applications/Desktop Manager.app/Contents/
MacOS/./../Frameworks/DesktopManager.framework/Versions/A/
DesktopManager
Expected in: /System/Library/Frameworks/
ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/ApplicationServices

Trace/BPT trap

Application prompts stuck in the background

Jeremiah Alfrey — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 07:33:46 -0000

This is more of a feature reuest then a bug.

Here is an example of the problem.

I have Safari up while surfing. Mail.app is open in the next desktop. I
switch compose a message and switch back to the desktop with
Safari. Mail encounters a problem and generates a popup window.
The window goes onto the window with Safari on it. I notice mail
bouncing in my dock and switch to the desktop with mail in it. Mail
is unresponsive because I need to reply to the prompt that is on the
window with Safari on it. I select mail then switch back to the
window with Safari on it and Safari gets forgrounded. The only way
to find the prompt is to use Expose to split the windows so I can
select the Mail app prompt.

This problem is common and effect all applicaitions.

Is there a way to force prompts to forground or stay on the desktop
with the application that spawned them?

No switch transition

Anonymous — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 11:56:48 -0000

The switch transition ceased to work after upgrading to OS X 10.4
Tiger build 8a425.

Hotkeys "Error" and custom Keyboard Layouts

Sam Halliday — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:45:59 -0000

using a custom "Keyboard Layout", such as one created by the tool
Ukelele:
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?
site_id=nrsi&item_id=ukelele

the Hotkeys will read "Error" instead of the key combo which
produces the command.

i have attached my custom keyboard layout, which is a small
modification of the British layout, but the §ą key produces #
instead.

either place this file in ~/Library/Keyboard Layout or (to avoid
conflicts in some user switching scenarios) the system wide folder.

Desktop Name moves after screen resize

Sam Halliday — Mon, 28 Mar 2005 16:40:24 -0000

if an application resizes the screen the desktop name is moved.

my sepcific example is Neverwinter Nights, which has a demo
downloadable from
http://www.macgamefiles.com/download.php?item=17716.

for a working proof of this bug, place the desktop name on the
bottom right corner of the screen. start the game demo above and
then exit. upon returning to the normal deskop, the desktop name
will have moved to somewhere near the top right of the desktop.

Exposé F10 problem on ATI chipset(s)

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 17:19:45 -0000

I have desktop manager installed on two machines. A PowerMac G5
with a nVidia GeForce 5200 FX, and a PowerBook G4 17" with a
mobility Radeon 9600.

On the desktop G5, it works perfectly, but on the laptop, when you
hit the default F10 Exposé key to highlight windows of the current
application while dimming any windows of background applications,
it does not perform any dimming. This makes the F10 Exposé
function useless or worse, as without the contrast between
foreground and background apps, forcing all the foreground app's to
not overlap can actually make things visually very difficult to pick
out.

It seems like it might be a difference in the ATI versus the nVidia
driver implementation. Possibly related to the driver updates
that were part of 10.3.7 or 10.3.8

Getting creazy on dual-monitor desktop spanning

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Feb 2005 06:50:42 -0000

PowerBook G4, Mac Os X 10.3.7.

Using "desktop spanning" feature (display arrangement): extra
monitor - positioned on top of (above) the native screen.

If window is positioned on the extra monitor (above the main
screen), Alt+Command+O does notthing.

I have to pull the window on the main screen, call the menu, move
the window, switch to new desktop (the one I put the window on)
and pull the window up onto additional display.

move window to other desktop doesn't update menubar switcher

Anonymous — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 04:10:26 -0000

v0.5.2 rc2

I moved some finder windows to an empty desktop by selecting them from the current desktop menu. The mini picture of the target desktop in the menubar was still empty (although the windows did move). The wireframes for the moved windows remained in the current desktop mini picture.

jltaylor at pobox dot com

Not compatable with StickyWindows...

Anonymous — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 00:57:43 -0000

When using Desktop Manager and StickyWindows (http://
www.donelleschi.com/) together, there is a bug...

basically, if you don't already know, stickywindows lets you put
windows in/on so called tabs on the corner of the screen.
altho when using desktop manager to switch desktop, those tabs
disapear (obviously since they don't belong to the other desktop),
but the problem comes when switching back to the first desktop
which had those tabs, they simply don't reapear...