Dear John, The Command Tab does not work for me, but I have been able to get expose to work. I.e. it does bring up all windows, including the x11 terminal. It will take a little getting used to, but it is functional. I apologize for cluttering the list with minutiae Thank you! Yours S. On 2011-07-28, at 5:21 PM, John Fox wrote:
> Dear Simon, > > I'm sitting in front of a MacBook Pro and Command-tab works perfectly fine > for me: Selecting X11 brings the R Commander Window to the front, and > selecting R brings the Quartz graphics window to the front. I must admit that > my habit in classroom demonstrations on a Mac is to use Expose to select > Windows, but, unless I misunderstand your problem, Command-tab also works. > > I'm using R 2.13.1 under Mac OS X 10.6.7 with XQuartz 2.3.6 and > tcltk-8.5.5-x11. > > I hope this helps, > John > > ------------------------------------------------ > John Fox > Sen. William McMaster Prof. of Social Statistics > Department of Sociology > McMaster University > Hamilton, Ontario, Canada > http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/ > On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:40:11 -0400 > Simon Kiss <sjk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Dear Colleagues, >> I have recently installed R Commander on my Mac OS 10.6.8. I'd like to use >> it for an undergraduate class this year. >> Everything appears to be working fine, except for one thing. I cannot use >> Command-tab to cycle from the X11 window in which RCommander is running to >> any other window open in my workspace. This is particularly important >> because I cannot cycle to the graphics device window that is opened when I >> call a new plot. If I force quit the X11 window and Rcommander, R remains >> running and I can see the graphics device window and the plot looks fine. >> But as you can imagine, this is quite laborious, having to restart. >> I've looked through the help documentation and tried reinstalling tcltk >> prior to opening up Rcommander, but that does not address the problem. >> Any thoughts? >> Yours, Simon Kiss >> ********************************* >> Simon J. Kiss, PhD >> Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University >> 73 George Street >> Brantford, Ontario, Canada >> N3T 2C9 >> Cell: +1 905 746 7606 >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > ********************************* Simon J. Kiss, PhD Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University 73 George Street Brantford, Ontario, Canada N3T 2C9 Cell: +1 905 746 7606 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
