Leopard a touch spottyI've come across a few more (very minor) Leopard glitches.  The first is that if you have a Finder window with no horizontal scrollbar, and you then click on a file that's right at the bottom of a file list and which, by displaying it's preview, forces a horizontal scrollbar, then the file list doesn't get pushed up. That results in the image on the right - notice how you can just see the blue highlight of the X11 file poking above the horizontal scroll bar?  
The second is with the dock and X11 (not sure if it's an issue with the app or the dock). If you put X11 in the dock, and then start it (from the dock), the icon you put in the dock bounces forever and a new X11 icon pops on the bottom of the dock (like it does for apps that are not in the dock already). you can see above I even sometimes get two extra icons. Note that I'm not starting any additional instances of X11 or any X apps besides the initial default xterm. Update: The multiple X11 icons also appear in the Command-Tab bezel. Update 2: It seems there are some pretty massive changes to X11 in Leopard. For the better Apple has switched to X.org, but that (and other) changes have been major and some bugs have slipped through. The change to launchd is interesting - while non-intuitive (in an X11 way) it makes X11 apps more intertwined with the main OS. Anyhoo, thankfully the X11.app maintainer is on the ball and has posted an update to solve the two most glaring issues - the faulty three-button emulation (critical on a laptop) and multi-monitor support. Go to http://www.x.org/wiki/XDarwin for more. I still get some really wacky behaviour when my monitor resizes (eg. by plugging my 22" crt into my 12" powerbook) but it's better. 10:44 AM, 29 Oct 2007 by Mark Aufflick Permalink | Comments (0) 
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