R help - Jul 2011 - cycling from x11 window in RCommander to graphics device window: Mac Os 10.6.8

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

Hi Simon

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Simon Kiss <sjkiss at 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.
My Mac days are long behind me, but surely Command-tab is not the only
way to switch windows! Can't you use the dock, or expose or ...?

A couple of other thoughts. First, check to see if this is specific to
Rcommander, or if you have the same problem in other X11 applications.
Second, you might have better luck on the R-sig-mac mailing list.

Best,
Ista
> 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
>
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-- 
Ista Zahn
Graduate student
University of Rochester
Department of Clinical and Social Psychology
http://yourpsyche.org

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

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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 <sjkiss at 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 at 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.