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On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Peter da Silva wrote: > > I hate that thing too. These days there is no reason to lock the > > entire computer while you're opening one application. > > Say what? > > I routinely switch to the terminal and do stuff there while applications > are bobbing in the dock loading, or are otherwise beachball-happy. > > If you can't do that, something else is wrong. I've had one of the > XServes at work do that to me a lot, when it was memory-starved and > paging its guts out. But I've never had it happen just because one > application was busy, hung, or dead. My experience is that I cannot minimise Safari while it is in beachball mode. It eventually minimises once it gets out of beachball mode; I guess it queues minimising instead of treating it as an interrupt. And the last time I tried to bring something else to the forefront using the dock, Safari crashed. > > I open the top and the display instantly shows the login prompt. But > > can I type in my password? No, I have to wait for the damn beachball > > to stop spinning. It takes at least half a minute. And why? Surely > > graphics must be more complex than accepting keyboard input. > My off-the-top-of-my-head guess is LoginWindow is blocked on disk I/O > and your disk is still spinning up. Just take a long time to validate my password then, but let me enter it. Of course, what I hate most about my mac is that I cannot opt for mouse-focus. I despise click-focus and focus-to-forefront.There's stuff above here
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