OS X V10.7 Lion :: It Keeps Switching Between Multitasking Apps Automatically?
Apr 28, 2012
Sometimes, I'm browsing the web, and Lion will slide back to my desktop, with the menu bar at the top of the screen (the white one) still showing Opera as the active application. Then, after a few seconds, it'll switch back. Then back again. It happens during casual browsing, when I'm filling out an HTML form (like this one), and in applications besides Opera, like iTunes, Mail and Final Cut.I've tried kill-all Dock and restarting the Finder through the force quit menu, to no avail.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
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Oct 12, 2009
I'm looking for a way to keep distraction to a minimum when working. I'd like to have an app (or a setting) that enables me to automatically hide any apps that I switch out of. Are there any apps or hidden settings within OS X out there that would solve this issue for me? I know about Spirited Away, but it doesn't work for me and hasn't been updated in a while.
I'm running OS X v10.6.1.
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Mar 25, 2012
Launchpad: How do I automatically organize apps in different orders (eg, kind, date purchased, etc) as you can with folders in Finder?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Jun 25, 2012
Whenever I turn my MacBook pro on, all the other stuff is loaded (MS word/excel/powerpoint), Spotify, iCal, etc., are automatically loaded, so in order for me to go to my desired website, I have to close (x) out all applications loaded.
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MacBook Pro
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May 12, 2010
I decided to try gfxCardStatus from a previous post to get a handle on which card is in use because I really feel like my battery usage is lacking, maybe 3 hours of continuous blogging and word processing. Nothing intensive like video. It showed the dedicated NVidia card. I switched to the Intel and no matter what I tried, I couldn't trigger the GT 330M. Video, every app, many windows. Appears to be a bug to me.
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Apr 24, 2009
I use spaces on my Mac and occasionally I use MS Word in one space and Firefox in another. I will constantly switch between spaces because I'm doing research or something else in Firefox. After a few switches like that, when I switch back to the space Word is in and click on the Word window it sends the document window up to the Firefox space. It also occasionally switches the window back to it's correct space. It's very frustrating. Is there anyway to stop this automatic moving of applications? I've looked in System Preferences under spaces and I've done a quick google search but have returned nothing.
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Jun 17, 2009
what is the shortcut? i think i have everything disabled but the keyboard layouts keep switching to American all the time.
i dont want to delete it because i have it for shortcuts for certain software..
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Jun 25, 2012
Macbook Pro 15" Mid 2010
OS X 10.7.4Â
I have a recurring problem where my screen (built in or external monitor/projector) will just go blank at random times. It is an unrecoverable situation and I have to do a hard power reset to get working again.
After testing several theories without success I struck upon one that showed promise. The blanking tended to occur when I was in Lion Fullscreen mode, or using a gesture to start expose - so I figured maybe it was a graphics switching issue.
So I went into System Preferences and disabled 'Automatic graphics switching'. I then ran trouble free for several days (I was typically crashing 1-2 times a day)
Then several days later it happened again and I thought I was back to square one. However, a colleague suggested I check the graphic switching setting to see if something had changed it back, and sure enough it was re-enabled.
Now I find myself in a constant battle with the system to keep disabling the 'Automatic graphics switrhing' in System Preferences.
I have tried setting it and locking it, but sooner or later it reverts. I need to know if it is possible to force it to stay disabled.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Jun 20, 2014
I'm verifying such an annoying problem, mostly at startup that appears to solve automatically after OS Mavericks is running. Â
Sometimes my iMac boot until the login windows in 45 seconds which is very good, but most of times I have to wait 30-40 minutes for the login windows to appears
and everything is running so slowly then. Â
Using the following command in Terminal:
syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CReq 'GPU |I/O e|find tok|n Cause: -|NVDA(|timed? ?o' | tail | open -efsyslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CReq 'GPU |I/O e|find tok|n Cause: -|NVDA(|timed? ?o' | tail | open -efÂ
This is the result:Â
Jun 15 20:39:51 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: [IOBluetoothHCIController][handleACLPacketTimeout] -- Disconnecting due to device not responding (ACL Packet timed out) for connection handle 0xc
Jun 15 20:40:00 localhost kernel[0] <Debug>: [AppleBluetoothHIDKeyboard][waitForHandshake][35-20-ab-11-07-cd] Timeout waiting for handshake
--- last message repeated 8 times ---
[code]...
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May 3, 2012
My 11" MacBook Air recently just started randomly switching from full screen apps back to the desktop by itself without me using the 4-fingered swipe to change desktops/apps. I've tried quitting (almost) every app and no matter what app is left open, it keeps sliding from the full screen app back to the desktop. I've rebooted the laptop a good three times and it's also been fully shut down and turned back on twice and it still keeps switching.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mar 18, 2009
I have been following the discussion of performance for the new Mac Pros. Most of the comments and tests have been related to single applications, such as photoshop performance or video rendering.
I am wondering if anyone can comment on the relative multitasking performance of Octad vs Quad. For example, will the Octad machine be faster than a quad when I have handbrake rendering in the background, while running either photoshop or final cut in the foreground.
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Jul 28, 2010
Professional composer here. I want to get a computer for my brother to start learning the ropes and I was waiting for the new imacs to come out. The question is how will these computers respond to audio programs which are created to be multi-processor intensive.
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Mar 22, 2012
Ok we all love apps but every single day, I'm faced with updating at least two of my apps when I turn on my phone, then same thing all over again on my IPad , ohALANd wait there are 6 more on my desktop..can they not just automatically update and sync across all devices?
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iPad, iOS 5
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Jun 17, 2014
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
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Aug 23, 2014
ok so every time i plug my iPhone 5s into my mac and open up iTunes to sync some music to my phone, i go to "music" and click the button "sync" at the bottom of the page in the iPhone music section. but all my apps gets transferred on my phone again even the apps that i deleted
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iPhone 5s, iOS 7.1.2
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Mar 29, 2012
I am running ios 10.5.8 & have itunes 10.8 and have both an iphone 4s and ipad 2. When i get new apps in the itunes store the apps seem to automatically appear on my iphone 4s a few seconds later, but they wont on my ipad 2. For me ipad 2 I need to actually plug it in to get them on my ipad. How can I make my ipad 2 get the apps automically?Â
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imac G5, intel, Mac OS X (10.4.8)
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Sep 19, 2010
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Apr 26, 2012
When I have several applications running (blue dot over icon in dock), how do I switch applications? I use Alt tab but this leaves the current applications window visible even though the application I selected is at the top? I come from a Windows environment..
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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May 30, 2012
I have a problem with the IMac switching itself off. It has done it when I clicked the launchpad and other icons.
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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May 24, 2012
I cannot seem to STOP the VPN server. I select the toggle and it switches to off but if I click off the VPN selection and go back its back on again. The green "dot" next to VPN never goes off. No users connected.
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Jun 1, 2012
This problem happens when I'm working between several applications at a time. I'm actively working in the current app when OSX automatically pulls me out and shows me something in a background app that suddenly requires attention, like a dialog box. Quite often I open or save files while working on something else, ususally in fullscreen mode. Moments later, I'm disruptively switched to a file that just opened in another application, or I'm told that something was saved, updated, installed, etc. This automatic switch interrupts my typing or commands in the app I was currently engaging, and has become a major problem.Â
Is there a way to keep OSX from pulling me out of my current application?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Feb 25, 2012
I was logged into my account when i went to sleep and i accidentally pushed the switch user button and now it brings me to a screen i hadnt ever seen before asking me for an admin user and password i dont know, is there any way to switch back to my original user that i have the password to?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Apr 7, 2012
I use English, Korean and Google Japanese. I used to use Windows with the same set of languages and it was even more difficult than in OS X, because each IME may have multiple languages (for example, Korean IME has both Korean and English mode). Now in OS X it is better than Windows because each IME has only single language, but still there are some troubles.Â
I use long command + shift. It shows the list in the middle of the screen, but the order is change depending on the current IME. And it only has text, no flag icon, so it is difficult to get the IME I want without carefully watching the screen.Â
It looks like OS X does not support assinging a shortcut for each langauge. For example, if I could assign F1 for English, F2 for Korean and F3 for Japanese it would be much easier. Or if only the popup language screen had flag icons...Â
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 2010 Unibody
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May 7, 2012
I installed OSX Lion on my Mac Intel but now Safari wont open - instant shut down. What do I do?, I installed OSX Lion but now Safari wont open - instant shut down. What do I do?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Jun 3, 2012
I've recently switched to Lion and my mail won't work, any suggestions? I've tried deleting SmartMailboxes and this didn't work for me.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.3)
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Feb 4, 2012
I have one particular application I use that requirems me to temporarily switch my audio input and output to different sources. Once I've used the app., I switch them back to their previous state.Â
I use Soundsource which gives me quick menu-bar access to the inputs/outputs but I still have to set them indiviudally. I was hoping there might be a way to have one or more 'sound sets' which have different combinations of inputs and outputs and then just switch between the sets.Â
In the absence of any such app. (or is there one?) does anyone know how I could write an Applescript to do this?Â
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Mac Pro Dual 3GHz, 15GB RAM, ATI 3870, 30, Mac OS X (10.7.2), MBP 17", iMac Intel 20", G4 Mini, MBA 1.8 (2nd Gen)
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Feb 28, 2012
The color of the application switching overlay changed to a black instead of the standard white. I don't know how this happened. Also the color of the on-screen overlays for changing the display luminosity, keyboard backlight and volume changed to black. How to set it back to the standard white?
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Mar 24, 2012
I just upgraded my operating system and added more memory to my imac. Word and Excel cannot be used with Lion. How do I delete these from my computer and is there a way to make sure I am optimizing the space on the hard drive?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), added more memory
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Apr 7, 2012
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MacBook, iMac, iPhone, eMac, Mac OS X (10.5.2)
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