Expose bugs in Snow Leopard (Blue box, window jitter, and rough animations)

[mrkgoo]

I have another bug in Snow Leopard Expose.

When I drag a file from a non-finder locations (i.e. from a folder in the dock or from the desktop), activate expose for all windows, drag the file to an open finder window using column view, hold until the window opens, and then try to continue dragging the file around, it fails to spring load my folders.

If I hit space while dragging, it quicklooks the folders, and sometimes random folders that I am not highlighting.

 

[MythicFrost]

Not sure if anyone has posted this, but if you have "iTunes minimized" in spaces 2, and then activate Expose in spaces 1, and then click iTunes, it opens in Space 1, it doesn't redirect you back to Space 2.
BTW I had minimize to dock checked fyi.

The animation of windows moving when entering/leaving Expose just feels a lot rougher than it was before. The windows are jumpy as they move around and not smooth like they were in Leopard. I couldn't document this one with a video since the animation always looks jumpy when grabbing video of the screen.

I've found it's like this when you have ANY minimized windows, otherwise mine is quite good, although not as good as Leopard's (just a bit).

the more minimized Windows you have, the worse it is.
If you try one normal window, and one minimized Window it's shocking!

Kind Regards

 

[ltf]

I'm a new mac user, and btw I am loving it. But the problem I am having is the third one noted on the first post of the forum. My exposé is a little bit rougher than it used to. What could be done about it?
And by the way, what is "clean the FTW"?

Thanks.

 

[celticpride678]

I'm a new mac user, and btw I am loving it. But the problem I am having is the third one noted on the first post of the forum. My exposé is a little bit rougher than it used to. What could be done about it?
And by the way, what is "clean the FTW"?

Thanks.

These issues were solved in Mac OS X 10.6.2. You should upgrade to the latest version of Mac OS X by using your Software Update.

 

[ltf]

The thing with the software update is that it tells me my computer is up to date.

 

[celticpride678]

The thing with the software update is that it tells me my computer is up to date.

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL959 Try running that.

 

[ltf]

I'll try that. But should I re-install the update, after all, I am running Mac OS X 10.6.2?

 

[celticpride678]

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I'll try that. But should I re-install the update, after all, I am running Mac OS X 10.6.2?

Yes. Sometimes there was a corrupt file in the install. Try reinstalling - it won't hurt.

 

[Macula]

These issues were solved in Mac OS X 10.6.2. You should upgrade to the latest version of Mac OS X by using your Software Update.

They were addressed but not solved: Exposé, Spaces and the Dashboard are still choppy under 10.6.2 when used in extended desktop mode (two monitors) with more than 3-4 application windows open.

Spaces is also slow to open: sometimes there is a palpable time lag between the user's request to activate spaces and the actual unfolding of Spaces on the screen. This is very disconcerting because it gives the erroneous impression that the first click didn't get through, so you reflexively click again during this time lag, for a total of two clicks, causing Spaces to open and immediately close as soon as the two commands eventually do get through. It seems as though there is a lot of churning and file crunching in the background that Apple has not really optimized. Or maybe some energy "optimizer" in the video subsystem that interferes with the timing of events.

Quite often, furthermore, animation will temporarily pause for a few moments.

I never had any such problems under 10.5.x Leopard.

I suspect these are issues with the X3100 video drivers in Slow Leopard.

 

[aykhwang]

specs?

 

[Macula]

Black Macbook
Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz
4GB RAM
250GB Hard Disk
100GB free HD space
usually 1.5GB free RAM
X3100 video controller
external 23" LCD monitor (Samsung) via DVI in extended desktop mode (i.e. not mirror)

 

[ltf]

I've got a late 2009 macbook pro 13.3 inch, 2.53 GHz intel core 2 duo.

 

[torquester]

Bug forces you to move your mouse in expose

If you use exposé and the mouse is by chance already over the window that you want to bring to the foreground you can't click that window until you move your mouse at least one pixel.

This is annoying and i was hoping that apple will address that issue in 10.6.3. but they didn't. Maybe they are not even aware of it. Do they have a bug tracking tool where those bugs can be entered or voted for?

 

[PerfSeeker]

Can anyone explain me why the thumbnails will randomly appear when I move the cursor to a corner of an application window? Is that supposed to happen?