Spaces is driving me nuts!

[freethought]

Hi,

Another issue I'm having is with spaces. I will use keyboard commands to change between spaces and then it will keep flipping back to the one I just came from, or in some cases a different space entirely.

Sometimes this will go on for 30 seconds.

I can't find any setting within spaces that I can adjust etc to stop this from happening.

Anyone else with this issue, or no how to fix it?

thanks.

 

[Ric]

Hi there,

what have you got set in System Preferences-->Expose&Spaces ?

Are you inadvertently pressing a key to instruct spaces to change ?

regards

Ric

 

[freethought]

Nope, not a key stroke issue or a settings issue, pretty sure it's a comp error/software bug.

It happens sometimes seconds after I've touched the keyboard, and when my hands aren't even touching the laptop.

 

[SpankMarvin]

Are you able to isolate this problem to moments when you are opening anything, be it an application or a file associated with an already-open app? Or to moments of app activity?

My experience with spaces quirks has almost exclusively been when I've got an app open, and it's in a space to which Leopard KEEPS flicking back as files open or as something changes (e.g. an alert pops up in that space). Off the top of my head, a good example of repetitive reversion to a space is when I've got a Photoshop batch process on the go. Keeps drawing my attention to the space I'm trying to leave running quietly in the background!

Anything like that in your scenario?

J

 

[freethought]

What I wound up doing was going into the files and removing my dock file and setting it all up again: com.apple.dock.plist

Got rid of it, then set everything up again, and it seems to be working. Likely a corrupt file.

As for your question, it occurred most frequently when I had more than 6 apps running, but it didn't seem to correspond to any specific activity.

thanks.