Launchpad

Stephen · 09-06-2012, 02:14 PM

I rarely use Launchpad while at work for two reasons, one the four finger swipe gesture has to be done on my trackpad which is out of reach normally and two is freezes/crashes.

The last few times I have tried it everything locks up on my Mac as Launchpad tries to display on my DisplayLink enabled monitor. I can also cause this using the Launchpad icon in the Dock.

After my last reboot I tried it again and I ran 'top -o cpu' in a terminal window. The output froze while Launchpad was starting but when it returned it displayed WindowServer using 168% of the CPU. The actual Launchpad display flickers badly and when I go to actually close the Launchpad display there is another spike in processor and everything (except the mouse pointer) freezes. The mouse pointer never freezes and is always responsive.

09-06-2012, 02:14 PM	#1
Stephen Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 10	Launchpad I rarely use Launchpad while at work for two reasons, one the four finger swipe gesture has to be done on my trackpad which is out of reach normally and two is freezes/crashes. The last few times I have tried it everything locks up on my Mac as Launchpad tries to display on my DisplayLink enabled monitor. I can also cause this using the Launchpad icon in the Dock. After my last reboot I tried it again and I ran 'top -o cpu' in a terminal window. The output froze while Launchpad was starting but when it returned it displayed WindowServer using 168% of the CPU. The actual Launchpad display flickers badly and when I go to actually close the Launchpad display there is another spike in processor and everything (except the mouse pointer) freezes. The mouse pointer never freezes and is always responsive.