Closed atr000 closed 13 years ago
I guess you refer to http://timesoftware.free.fr/backgroundconsole/. Cool app, btw! I used to do that with GeekTool, though.
I cannot reproduce your problem, but maybe I just didn't understand it. Are you saying that the BackgroundConsole text is hidden when you switch to a Finder window and reappears when you leave the Finder window for a different app's window? That doesn't happen here.
Does your Finder's Menu Bar autohide, too? If it does not, please log out and back in or kill the Finder. I mentioned in the README that restarting all applications is sufficient, but I forgot that usually users can't and won't restart the Finder.
I tested with BackgroundConsole for a while and also GeekTool and could not reproduce this behaviour. Feel free to reopen if the issue persists and/or you have any additional information.
I am going to try and see if I can replicate it to any reliability since it's hit or miss. I wanted to file something incase you had experienced it and it was something you were aware of but it's not too big of a deal. Thanks for looking into it, though
Hi,
I use BackgroundConsole.app, a free system log utility that displays on the Desktop (below icons like MkConsole).
When switching to and from the Finder, it periodically disappears and will reappear when a different window comes back to being active/front.
I assume that some of the Carbon stuff required to hide the MenuBar is causing this and this page on CocoaDev seems to reference parts of it:
http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?DontExposeMe
Any chance of a way to not hide the app? From what I understand about how you're getting around hiding the MenuBar and the way CG sets the window layers, I'm not sure if it would be possible.
Thanks