Spaces switches away from application when moving window to another monitor

Using multiple monitors in Mavericks:
I often want a window from the same application on each monitor. Why? Because I'm working in one window, and I want to refer to another. Mostly it's the brower (Firefox), but sometimes it's Word or Excel too although I think this is a Mavericks issue.
Here's the issue: When I move the a window to another monitor, Spaces on the original monitor changes away from the current application.
This is frustrating, because I have to keep Cmd Tabbing to get back to my original application on both monitors... how do I prevent this from happening?
Thanks!

This reply from Grzegortz Krzminski was helpful - problem solved:
"Hover your mouse over the tasbar icon of the application (the thumbnail preview appears) > right click on the thumbnail preview > select Move > hold the button and move the window."

Similar Messages

Why does Spaces automatically switch away from my active window?

I'm having the weirdest problem. As of a few days ago, whenever I use an app in full screen mode, this thing happens: after about ten or twenty seconds, the app will switch away from my active window, and show the desktop. What's also weird about it is that there's no switch away from the app - in the menu bar (which was previously hidden, because I was in full screen mode), it'll show that whatever program I was using (ie, Chrome), not Finder. Again, to be clear: the window is switched out of view, and I can see my desktop, but the app I was using is still active.
This problem only happens in full screen mode, and seems to be happening across the board with all the apps I regularly use (iCal, Word, Chrome, Excel, to name a few).
Thanks for the help.

This just started for me today and I have no idea what's causing it. I almost always have a full-screen Chrome space running and it worked fine for me for as long as I've had this machine, but suddenly for no reason it wants to do this autoswitch thing. It is incredibly frustrating even if it is a simple swipe to get the screen to go back across it makes watching a video or reading a page nigh impossible. Is there a solution for this at all or even a workaround?

When switching away from a particular web site, the audio often continues.

When switching away from an eagle cam web site, the audio often continues after leaving the site or will stop then restart later.
Only happens from this one web site but occurs on two different computers using Firefox browser but not others. This seemed to start with Firefox 10 and continues with FF 11. I have watched this particular web site off and on for a year and never had this experience with the audio restarting after leaving the site.
This is the only site I have found where this happens and it happens only with FF, not IE or Chrome. I also learned that a friend has the same problem on the same site on her computer.
Any help resolving this is appreciated.

Sounds like a problem with the plugin-container process that doesn't stop properly and keeps playing the sound.
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Plugin-container_and_out-of-process_plugins

Animations reset if you switch away from Presenter view?

This may be fairly unique to us, but in the middle of a Keynote presentation while in presenter view, I will have to switch away from Keynote to another application and then I would like to switch back.
The problem is if there are 5 animations on a slide and I am on the third, when I switch back to Keynote for whatever reason Keynote is back at the first animation as if I just pulled the slide up for the first time.
I've poked around to see if there is an option or anything to turn this "feature" off and haven't found anything. I don't know why anyone would want that behavior either.
Anyone have any ideas? For now, I am just chopping up the slides wherever we have those kinds of transition points but it's a real pain. All I want is for Keynote to "Freeze" and chill in the background while I temporarily switch to another program that I need to show, and be right where I left it when I switch back.

Erik,
I think "am just chopping up the slides wherever we have those kinds of transition points" might be the best possible solution....where at the space you need to switch programs one slide ends and the transition to the next slide requires a manual click ... you use Alt+Tab to switch to the other program, run it, then when finished Alt+Tab back to KN and manually click. (Using Duplicate Slide might be helpful....deleting what you want after the other program from the first and deleting what you wanted before the other program from the second slide....with the manual transition appearing between the slides.)
I will be interested if somebody has an alternative answer.

I have an iPad 2 and receive e-mail through internet connection. When I delete e-mails, and clear my Trash folder, they re-appear. Setting are for remove from server when moved from Inbox. Any idea what I can do to actually delete them?

I have an iPad 2 and receive e-mail through regular internet connection. Lately, when I delete e-mails, and clear my Trash folder, they re-appear, downloaded anew from the server and marked as unread. My e-mail Advanced Settings are selected for "Remove from server when moved from Inbox." Even when I access the e-mail accountfrom my desktop and delete the e-mails, the re-appear on my iPad. Does anyone have any idea what is causing this and what I can do to actually delete them?

Sounds like you are looking in the wrong Administrative Group container which is why you are seeing your Exchange 2010 servers in there.
When you install Exchange 2003 only you will see a container named by default as "CN=First Administrative Group" container. But this could be named anything if you changed the Organization Name on the installation when you installed the first
Exchange 2003 server into the domain/forest.
You will notice that when you install Exchange 2010 part of the AD setup is to create a new configuration container and is named by default "CN=First Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)".
So it sounds like you are not looking in the right location within ADSIEdit.
You may find the following article also helpful for this issue which is the same resolution:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2012/05/17/empty-cn-servers-container-causing-issues-with-public-folders-on-small-business-server-2011.aspx
I recommend though that you ensure your Exchange 2003 servers are fully uninstalled or no longer present in your environment before you go deleting the Servers container though.. The following Microsoft article will help with this:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/library/gg576862(v=exchg.141).aspx

Whenever I hit BACK the history list stays open below it until I click away from it in the window.

It used to disappear once you moved the mouse away from the list/back button but it seems to stay up almost every time now until I hit a key/mouse button etc. I tried to take a screenshot but when I hit print screen the drop down list disappears.

Or double click on the bar to the far right and it will reset.
Captfred

How to open document from mac when using windows without transferring the file?

How can i open a document from mac when i am using windows without transferring it?

depend on the document program more then anything else really
when ever I open a doc with word it make a history for undo and redo action file in the same dir
with bootcamp you only have read not write access to the osx partition so it would fail to be able to create that file
but if you can get word or whatever program you use to open the file not to place a temp file in the same dir
or use a program which did not make any type of temp file or used a program where the temp file would be located elsewhere where you decide it would work file

IE11 in Windows 8.1 changes scale when moving window between screens

Hi,
I'm using Windows 8.1 with IE11 on a Dell Latitude E6510 with an external LG screen. I use both screens in my daily work and when I move a IE11 window from the internal screen in my laptop to the external LG screen, the scaling in IE11 changes and gets smaller.
It happens when the windows is halfway over to the external screen. On the way back it changes again and gets bigger. I've use the "One scaling for all my screens" in the Control Panel|Display applet without success. It's only IE11 that has this
behaviour, no other programs does this.
Brgds Jonas

Hi Brgds Jonas,
I agree with Robert Aldwinckle .
In addition, Windows 8.1 definitely seems to be doing some automatic display scaling here, as has been rumored based on beta builds of the OS.
The first option is for multiple monitors with different ppi. windows will choose for you based on what the ppi is. use trial and error until you get the size you want and both monitors will be about that size. if they are close in ppi it will not scale
them differently because I am pretty sure it only chooses from the default scaling sizes.
For more reference, you may refer to:
Windows 8.1 DPI Scaling Enhancements
http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/extremewindows/archive/2013/07/15/windows-8-1-dpi-scaling-enhancements.aspx
Hope it helps.
Regards,
Blair Deng
Blair Deng
TechNet Community Support

Firefox crashes when I watch a yt video after I click away from it when it is in full screen.

Whenever I enter full screen on any video (yt, and other video formats) it crashes everytime...EVERYTIME I click away from it weather it be on a different window windows task bar anything outside the video. It crashes even if I use shortcuts to get to a different window. Why is it doing this? I get no crash report my computer just freezes and then I have to go into task manager and end tasks and restart firefox. It is really annoying because I have 2 monitors and I can't do anything else without firefox crashing. Any help would be AWESOME! :)

Some of your crash reports weren’t sent to the Mozilla Servers.
In the address bar, type '''about:crashes'''<enter>.''' Note:''' If any reports do not
have '''BP''' in front of the numbers, click it and select '''Submit'''.
Using your mouse, '''mark''' the most '''resent 7 - 10''' crash reports, and
'''copy''' them. Now go to the reply box below and '''paste''' them in.
If you have problems with current Shockwave Flash plugin versions then check this:
* see if there are updates for your graphics drive drivers
'''https://support.mozilla.org/kb/upgrade-graphics-drivers-use-hardware-acceleration'''
* disable protected mode in the Flash plugin (Flash 11.3+ on Windows Vista and later)
'''https://forums.adobe.com/message/4468493#TemporaryWorkaround'''
* disable hardware acceleration in the Flash plugin
'''https://forums.adobe.com/thread/891337'''
See also:
* '''http://kb.mozillazine.org/Flash#Troubleshooting'''

Can Openbox change window transparency/opacity when moving windows?

Can I configure, within Openbox or a compositing manager, differing window transparency/opacity when moving a window?

I'm currently using cairo-compmgr, but I've also used xcompmgr in the past. I've played around with the settings in both (and transset-df with xcompmgr), with no luck thus far. While getting terminal and tint2 transparency is fairly trivial, and I've also read that you can set specific windows to always have a certain level of transparency/opacity, I'm not sure that you can get the level of opacity/transparency to change whenever you grab a window and move it around. I think I read that the difficulty lies in the fact that Openbox knows when a window is being moved around, but a compositer doesn't. What I'm looking for may only be possible in a DE where the window management and compositing are integrated (e.g. KWin). Just wondering if anybody has done this with Openbox and a specific compositing manager paired together.
Last edited by CharBar (2013-04-12 20:11:23)

Dragging tabs from one Terminal.app window to another

In Safari, you can drag a tab off and "tear" it off from one window to another. Is there a way to make that work in Terminal.app? It doesn't seem to work on my end with Leopard OS X 10.5.5.

g-pod wrote:
That worked, thanks! I see what happened now. I tried to detach the tab by dragging the tab upward instead of downward, but didn't drag it up far enough for detachment.
I discovered the "bug" with Safari - about dragging "up."
I used the two tab example because it works more easily. But dragging "up" works even when the target terminal has no tab. It's a cool thing
I suspect that the tab portion of termina (or Safari) only opens when "attacked" from below.

Using the magnify button in Ancestry.co.uk, the cursor will not move away from the actual record window. The only way to exit is Alt F4 which closes Firefox. When reloading, Firefox reactivates the same record but without the magnify button activated.

The magnify also does not function properly.

There is an easier work-around. Rather than closing the browser, completely, you just have to get the system to change the focus. You can do this by pressing ALT+TAB (to switch windows). Then, you can turn the magnify option off and just go with the Zoom. (There is a secondary problem, in that the last magnified section of the image stays magnified. Going back to the record and then back into the image will clear that. But at least you don't have to close the entire browser!)

Place file in central instance(AIX/UNIX) from Application server in Windows

Hi guys,
We have the central instance running in AIX and app servers in AIX/UNIX as well. now we want to replace the app server by windows server.
so central instance remain as AIX/unix server and app server becomes Windows NT.
then how can i place a file in my central instance while using this Windows based app server... because open dataset with forward slash (/usr/sap/) will be not be interpretated by windows,
so i used logical file name.. and kept both windows and unix path..
unix path as /usr/sap/tmp/<File_Name>
and windows path as
servername\usr\sap\tmp\ and even tried with
usr\sap\tmp\
nothing worked.. when i used open dataset fetching the path from logical path, it ways unable to open the file..

Hi,
you can't directly open file on central instance if you are not connected to it. You have access only to files which are on application server which you are connected to. If you want to have a folder which will be accessible from all application servers then you need to map folder on application server to folder on central instance.
To solve the issue with different paths for different operating systems you can use transaction FILE. Here you can define a logical filename where you can configure different paths for different syntax groups such as UNIX or WINDOWS NT. You can use FM FILE_GET_NAME to get valid path for application server.
Cheers

Remove copy from server 'when moved from inbox' option for POP accounts

Is this option supposed to work in all cases? (or could it be buggy?:-)
I can't get it to work with my POP account: messages are still left on the POP server, even after when they are moved from the inbox to another local mailbox on my Mac...
Manual selective removal of messages from the server does work (thru the 'Get info' window of the 'Gear' menu at bottom of Mailboxes pane), so this does seem to be a problem with the POP server.
Or do I by any chance misinterpret the meaning of this option?
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.7) Mail version 2.1 (752/752.2)

You've interpreted correctly how it should work, as long as you take the following considerations into account:
1. Messages aren't supposed to be removed from the server immediately, but rather the next time Mail connects to the POP server.
2. It may have no effect on messages that had already been downloaded prior to you choosing that option.
And, yes, it sometimes doesn't work as expected. It could be buggy or Mail might have problems communicating with the server.

Remove the word alias from Aliases when moving to a specific folder?

Title says it all. I am looking for a script to add to folder actions so that when I move an alias to a certain folder it removes the word alias from the end of it.

Hi Spectre
try the below
on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving (added_items)
tell application "Finder"
set _files to (files of this_folder whose name ends with "alias")
repeat with _file in _files
set _name to name of _file
set name of _file to (characters 1 thru -6 of _name as text)
end repeat
end tell
end adding folder items to
Budgie
Message was edited by: Budgie

Spaces switches away from application when moving window to another monitor

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for