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Spaces forgets which window was active

Submitted by Hansii on September 1, 2008 to Annoyance, Bug

If you open to windows of the same in app in one space, and open another application in another space, and then try to alt-tab between them sometimes the wrong window will be active.

Fix the bug.

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Low

Not fixed

Discussion (6 comments)

Grey_Podder wrote on September 1, 2008, 7:06pm

Duplicate submission.
See my comments here: http://www.aquataskforce.com/view/116
This is a bug that was fixed in the 10.5.3 update.

Hansii wrote on September 1, 2008, 7:14pm

I don't agree that it is duplicate, and it still happens for me, so it's not completely fixed.

Grey_Podder wrote on September 1, 2008, 7:24pm

I've tried to replicate the problem several times when discussing it in the other submission. Could you tell me exactly how you get the problem to happen? That way we can submit the bug to Apple and get it fixed.

Hansii wrote on September 3, 2008, 8:46pm

Nothing special, it seems to happen randomly, I can't make it happen on command, but I have submitted a bug to Apple through the OS X feedback site.

Hansii wrote on September 5, 2008, 11:47am

Today this bug is driving me up the wall, I am coding a webpage in TextMate and testing with Firefox, and almost every time I alt-tab form TextMate to FF I get the wrong FF window.

dmitriid wrote on October 24, 2008, 8:46pm

It's easily reproduced.

In space 1: Open Finder window
In space 1: Open Safari window
In space 1: Click on Safari to make it active
Switch to a space that has no windows in it, say space 2(Ctrl + 2)
Switch back to space 1 (Ctrl+1).

Hey, why is Finder on top?

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