Java Applications and Spaces don’t work well together

Posted October 26, 2007
Filed under: Java, Lame, Leopard, Spaces |

Spaces is great. Except that it does not work with Java applications. Try to start IDEA or JConsole and you will notice that command-tabbing to that application will not active the space that it is on. It is also not possible to give Java applications a fixed spaces: you can select for example IDEA.app or NetBeans.app in the Spaces Preferences but it will not be added to the ‘Application Assignments’ list. Lame.

4 comments so far

  1. Dan on October 31, 2007

    Yeah. my main ide is netbean and I can’t use spaces to hide my adult web viewing quickly when my boss approaches. ahha

  2. Maxim on November 4, 2007

    Eclipse works fine at the same time

  3. Emil on November 6, 2007

    If you are in one space and try to alt+tab to Zend Studio (which is a java application) it doesn’t work. Neither to click the icon in the dock.

  4. KB on January 11, 2008

    There’s a good fix here:

    http://www.jetbrains.net/jira/browse/IDEADEV-23629


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