Dear Simon,

On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:32:45 -0400
 Simon Kiss <sjk...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 didn't understand that you're running R from an X11 terminal (if I now 
understand correctly and that's the case). If so, that's not necessary. You 
should be able to run the Rcmdr from R.app or R64.app, and X11, without a 
terminal window, will start automatically.

Best,
 John

> 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
> >> *********************************
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> >> Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
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> >     
> 
> *********************************
> Simon J. Kiss, PhD
> Assistant Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University
> 73 George Street
> Brantford, Ontario, Canada
> N3T 2C9
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