Add "Fast App Switching" to AssistiveTouch

Can "Fast App Switching" be added to AssistiveTouch. I have a hard time double-clicking the home button. It would be nice if it was included right next to Home on the menu.

Sorry, when I say "right next to Home", I mean right next to Home on the AssistiveTouch main popup menu.
Thank you

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IOS fast app switching

I'm not sure if this issue is simply an IOS bug or something related to certain programs. That being said, after launching some programs for the first time (after reboot of iPad) and configuring it the way I like, most of the time when relaunching the app it will utilize the fast app switching feature of IOS and retain my customizations/views without having to reload the program in it's entirety. However after a period of time whether it be overnight or a few hours later when I relaunch the app it will completely reload the app - splash screen and all and force me to again customize my views. As often as I use these programs it becomes annoying. I was thinking that perhaps this was a bug in IOS 5.01 however after upgrading to 5.1 the behavior still exists.
I apprecaite any help!

This is likely one of 2 things... Either the developer hasn't coded it properly to work, or you are running up against a RAM wall. How many apps are you running at a time, and how many tabs do you have open in safari?

IPad fast app switcher slow to bring up. What should I do?

When I double tap the home button on my iPad, the fast app switcher is slow to bring up. What should I do to?

Try the following:
1. Close all inactive apps in the Task Bar. Double-click the Home button and hold apps down for a second or two and tap the minus sign to close app.
2. Try a reset. Hold the Sleep and Home button down for about 10 seconds until you see the Apple Logo

Can't kill apps using fast app switcher....help!

can't kill app using fast app switcher...help ?

Only a very few specifically designed Apps actually run in the background. Apps such as Music, turn by turn GPS etc. others are suspended when you push the home button or switch to a different App.
Stedman

Fast App Switching Support

Hi,
Since iOS 4+, apps now support Fast Switching, that is, when the application is closed it saves its memory contents and goes to background so that when the user taps the application again it resumes in the same state as it was when it was closed.
Adding Fast App Switching Support to existing Cocoa Applications is as simple as recompiling the code for the new SDK. I wonder if there's any way to implement this by using the PFI.

For a long time I assumed it wouldn't work, because when I switched away from my app it always restarted when I switched back. But then later I realized I was calling the application exit function on deactivate. Haven't had time to prove one way or another whether it can work.
I did try messing with shareobjects as a way to reinstate things, but that wasn't too successful.
Anyway, it should be something you can easily test.

When I double click Home button, all of my apps don't show in the bar -- only the four that reside there. Did a reset last night to fix the Home button (it sort of works now) but now this. Any ideas on why I can't do the fast app switch now?

When I double click Home button to change apps quickly, only the four apps that reside on the task bar show. All of my apps would show prior to my reset of the iPad last night (to fix the Home button). Any ideas on how to fix?

My undertanding is that when you double-click the home button, the apps that are shown are those that are currently active. The reason you are not seeing all of them is that not all of them are active. Before you can access an app in the multitask bar, it has to be turned on first. As a test, try accessing the Notes application. Return to the home screen by clicking the Home button ONCE. Once the home screen appears, double click the home button to bring up the multitasking bar. The Notes app should be on the far left.

Is it possible to shut off multitasking/fast app switching if you want to ?

For ex, I just looked up an address in motion X drive GPS. I'm in my house right now so I don't need it to constantly "be on" right now ... ?

If you don't have a current route set up that you're following, it's not "on", it's in frozen state. What you're wanting to do is remove its frozen state from the memory and CPU. Follow the poster's advice above my post.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=11763739

Apps do not launch after fast user switch; requires restart

I have 3 users accounts on a mid-2010 with 12 GB RAM; two with parental controls - the kids.
The kids like to play games (particuarally Minecraft), so will log in a play for a while. Typcially when one is done playing they will use the fast user switch menu to go back to the "Login Window..." They are pretty good about shutting down the apps afterwards due to previous performance issues.
When the second user logs in, the only application that seems to work is Finder. Clicking on an app in the dock results in the "Denied"sound. Tyring to launch from Finder or from the dock using "Open" results in nothing happening. It just seems to ignore it - not even the spinny wheel.
It is almost like everything is locked for the second user and the restart clears it. Generally it is responsive for the upper menu items so it does not seem to be a memory or CPU issue. Activity montor does not show anything out of the ordinary.
This does not occur on my accout which I am currently running as an admin. (I shouldn't but am). I can login and run all the applications but if I switch to the second user nothing launches.
I have re-installed Mavericks, and ran both the file and permissions repair on disk. I cleared all of the old cahce. The only thing that seems to work reliably is to restart the system.
It also seems that if the first user logs out then when the second user tries to log in the system just seems to hang after trying to log into the second account. It swtiches to the user screen but gets stuck with the spinny wheel; this requires the one finger force reboot.

Generally yes, they will keep running. You can confirm this by running the "Activity Monitor" app to see their CPU usage.

Add Network Users to Fast User Switching Menu

Local users appear in the *Fast User Switching menu* on our Macs. How can we add users with *Network accounts* on our bound Mac OS X Servers so they appear in the Fast User Switching menu w/out already being logged into the client machine?

Demetrios wrote:
Local users appear in the *Fast User Switching menu* on our Macs. How can we add users with *Network accounts* on our bound Mac OS X Servers so they appear in the Fast User Switching menu w/out already being logged into the client machine?
It did not use to be possible to have two (or more) network users logged in on a machine (via fast switching) as the normal method of accessing network home directories, i.e. via AFP had limitations that prevented this.
If you want to try this, I suggest you first need to setup your home directories so they are shared via NFS rather than AFP. I found I had to actually turn AFP off for that share rather than merely setting the autoshare to be NFS as if it was shared by both AFP and NFS the clients seemed to prefer using AFP and would use that instead.
I am not using fast user switching myself for this, but I have a Terminal Server running on a Mac Server which allows multiple clients to be logged in at the same time and accessing their home directories via NFS.

How to get "fast user switching" and network shares playing nice

I've been alternating between banging my head against a wall and reading every forum I could find to try and get a reasonable compromise between using "Fast user switching" and sharing a folder from a file server. It baffles me how the network share/mount model of OSX/AFP is completely killed by fast-user-switching; this is a big problem with Apple requiring users to be actively logged in to share music/video from iTunes which therefore essentially requires fast-user-switching if anyone else wants to use the computer. (anyone find it odd that you can share files without being logged in, but sharing songs requires an active login for each user who is sharing? Apple: time to make iTunes sharing a service!)
For the sake of example, lets just say I want to share my /Groups folder from my desktop and have it be accessible to my laptop. Here are all the things that I tried:
Apple Method 1) Share /Groups in the Server.app on the desktop (running Lion Server), use finder on the laptop and drag the share icon to "Login Items", alternative use a startup Apple script using "mount volume" Both of the options work and will mount the /Groups folder under /Volumes/Groups, of course when the second person logs in via fast-user-switching (and occasionally the first person for no apparent reason), they will get /Volumes/Groups-1 since /Volumes/Groups is already taken. Tomorrow we log in a different order and now the previously /Volumes/Groups-1 user has their mount at /Volumes/Group and vice versa. Any links, aliases, finder sidebar references, and application settings which pointed to yesterday's location are now BROKEN. Not very user friendly to my mother-in-law who is trying to find those pictures of the kids and doesn't know anything about mount points. I also can't reasonably mirror the file location structure on the desktop so that application preferences that are synced between the two (portable home directories) work. fail.
Apple Method 2) Use automounter and set up by hand direct maps for /Groups or an indirect maps for the children of /Groups. Now it will automatically get mounted to /network/servers/SERVER/Groups/ on the laptop and on the desktop it will automatically create a similar symlink structure so that the same path (/network/servers/SERVER/Groups) work both on desktop and laptop. Cool. Except when the second person logs in, the /network/servers/SERVER/Groups/ mountpoint is already owned by the first user and they don't have any permissions to access it. Fail.
Apple Method 3) Use mount_afs and specify directly the mount-points. Have each user have their own startup AppleScript which mounts /Groups to a different location (e.g. /Users/Shared/username/Groups) that way they don't conflict with multiple users. On the desktop, set up symlinks from /Users/Shared/username/Group to /Groups so that it will be the same as the client and applications settings will work when synchronized back/forth by portable-home-directories. Will it work, yes it does, but what a bear to maintain. Is this really what I should expect to do just to have multiple users on my desktop and laptop (which again is essentially required now if I want to do any type of iTunes sharing). This can't be what apple expects.
What I ended up doing - the "not quite apple" solution.
Non-Apple Method 4) After a read of "Autofs: Automatically Mounting Network File Shares in Mac OS X" (http://images.apple.com/business/docs/Autofs.pdf) at the very end there is a single paragraph of "Kerberized NFS": "A Kerberized NFS mount can have multiple connections from multiple users, each using the correct user’s credentials for each transaction. This allows administrators to support multiple users, each authenticated with their own credentials to the same mount point. This is very different from AFP and SMB mounts," (emphasis mine)
It appears that by using good 'ole NFS (abeint with Kerberos for security!) you can actually have multiple users on the same mount point. Roughly following the guidance at https://support.apple.com/kb/TA24986?viewlocale=en_US. What I needed to do was:
1) create /etc/exports on my desktop and add a single line "/Groups -sec=krb5". The existence of /etc/exports triggered a start of nfsd which no longer has any GUI options in Lion.
2) Add a line to /etc/auto_master on my laptop "/- auto_mymounts" to reference a new direct map.
3) Create /etc/auto_mymounts and add a single line "/Groups SERVER:/Groups" to create the direct map.
THAT'S IT. Three lines in three files.
Now when I log into my laptop, there is a /Groups that is a network mount of my desktop's /Groups, same location AND it works for all of my users, even simultaneously.
In the end I'm happy with what I've got, but man was this a difficult path just to support fast-user-switching. In Lion, Apple appears to be getting away from NFS (no longer turned on by default and remove from the GUI controls) but clearly this really useful functionality which doesn't exist in AFP.
I'm really curious, after all this work. Any other ways to accomplish this?

In my example above, yes I chose to mount the share "Groups" to the top of the root since that is where I put it on my server and I wanted to keep them similar; but that was just my preference, it isn't a requirement. You can export and mount from other directories.

Time machine effect with fast user switching

I already calculated it will take 11 hours to do my initial back up of 420 gb. but my Gf wants to login. I am certain this will at least slow to process down if not pause or cancel. does any one know for sure?

Audio output is squelched when fast user switching. Under Panther, audio playing in one user account would continue to play after fast user switching to another account. Under Tiger, the actual process continues, but the sound is muted.
Same thing goes for audio input. I learned this the hard way by setting up an app to record a two hour radio program through the built-in audio input jack. During the recording I switched to another account for an hour. When I later went to listen to the recording, there was an hour of silence corresponding to the time I was in the other account.
I really wish Apple would fix this.

Is Xsan compantible with Fast User Switching in 10.4 Tiger?

Does anyone know if Xsan is compatible with Tiger's 'fast user switching' feature (which allows you to have multiple users logged into the machine at the same time)?
I had a very strange occurrence with my Xsan yesterday. The Xsan volume was mounted on one client only, but that client was logged in with two users. Even though no software was accessing the volume (i.e. FCP not running by either user) I noticed that my Xserve RAID was lit up like a blue Christmas tree -- something was reading data. When I launched the Xsan Admin app on the server (primary controller) it lost connection with the SAN and reported a FATAL error. Long story short... I had to log out of both users and restart the client to get control back. All appears fine now, but I'm only running one user on this client. I would like to be able to use the fast switching feature, but how do I prevent Xsan problems?
Also.. is it possible that Spotlight is trying to index the SAN volume? If so, how are people preventing this in Tiger?

Very interesting... never tried it..
Spotlight does not index your xsan, you can check it by:
mdutil -s /Volumes/XsanVolume

Scanners usable with Fast User Switching

Which mid-range scanner operates with multiple logged users?
Manufacturers seem poorly equipped to answer this, since they test their products with only one user logged in—their support people come up empty-handed. I work in a small but busy office where fast user switching is considered a basic part of the Mac OS, and I feel that if a product doesn't work with multiple users logged the maker shouldn't be allowed to state, without caveat, that it works with OS X.
We recently tried two scanners and found them lacking: first, the HP Color LaserJet 2840 all-in-one. After six months of support calls that often involved switching users, HP happened to mention that user switching with any of their scanners is unsupported. (Good-bye, HP.) Next, the Epson 4490. Ditto—zero support.
My intent was to use the 4490 as a replacement for the color laserjet's function as a copier. We don't want to mess with another multi-function machine, as the makers don't seem to have their act together when it comes to drivers for those. We miss our color laser, but we can get by with an inkjet. In the meantime, everyone in the office needs access to a copier, and I see no reason a printer plus a scanner (with its scan-to-printer button) can't be that copier.
Do you know of a scanner that's fully functional, buttons and all, under OS X—that is, ALL of OS X, including fast user switching?
G4 and G5 iMacs Mac OS X (10.4.6) FileMaker, Toon Boom Studio

Audio output is squelched when fast user switching. Under Panther, audio playing in one user account would continue to play after fast user switching to another account. Under Tiger, the actual process continues, but the sound is muted.
Same thing goes for audio input. I learned this the hard way by setting up an app to record a two hour radio program through the built-in audio input jack. During the recording I switched to another account for an hour. When I later went to listen to the recording, there was an hour of silence corresponding to the time I was in the other account.
I really wish Apple would fix this.

User activity with fast user switching

what actually continues with one user when another user logs on with fast user switching?
Does any activity continue, such as downloading, calculating, getting mail, or playing movies? Or does everything go into limbo until that user logs back on?

Audio output is squelched when fast user switching. Under Panther, audio playing in one user account would continue to play after fast user switching to another account. Under Tiger, the actual process continues, but the sound is muted.
Same thing goes for audio input. I learned this the hard way by setting up an app to record a two hour radio program through the built-in audio input jack. During the recording I switched to another account for an hour. When I later went to listen to the recording, there was an hour of silence corresponding to the time I was in the other account.
I really wish Apple would fix this.

Can no longer simultaneously stream an mp3 in Safari when using fast user switching option.

After updating to ios 5, I can no longer stream an mp3 in Safari when I use the fast user switching option. For instance, if you are listening to streaming content in a Safari tab and want to reference another app as soon as you switch from the Safari stream pauses.
This was not the case with previous versions of ios. Any ideas on a work around to restore this functionality to keep Safarr streaming content in the background?

User switching problems is the very first thing I noticed with SL. I have a host of other problems with SL but this is one of the most frustrating. The user switching did not work on 10.6 very well either but was wicked fast in 10.5.x
Apple rewrote the Kernel so this type of thing is expected, still the test crew missed this very noticable problem. Hopefully 10.6.2 has a fix.

Add "Fast App Switching" to AssistiveTouch

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