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10.5: Display Crash Reporter windows in separate spaces Apps
I like that Apple has a method to submit crash logs, but I have always been bothered by the fact that they pop up right in front of what you're doing. Fortunately, it is possible to put those windows in their own Space, so that they are out of the way and never pop up in front of you (unless, of course, you happen to already be in the Space you assign them to).

To put those pesky windows in their own space, go to Exposé and Spaces in System Preferences and click on the Spaces tab. Click on the plus sign under the Application Assignments area and navigate to /System » Library » CoreServices. Then click on the Application named Problem Reporter (it has a yellow caution icon). Then assign the program to whatever Space you want (or every Space, if you feel that those windows aren't bothersome enough already).

You will still see notifications that a program has crashed in whatever space you are in, but when you click Report, the reporting window will open in the Space that you assigned it to. Then you can quickly switch to that Space to send and then switch back, or you can wait until you have a few piled up and send them all at once.

[robg adds: If you have the Dev Tools installed, you'll find an app called CrashReporterPrefs in Developer » Applications » Utilities; you can use this to control what type of dialogs appear when something crashes. (We covered it in this hint.) Also, I think you could still use this old hint, with the none option, to remove the dialogs entirely, but I haven't tested that theory.]
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10.5: Display Crash Reporter windows in separate spaces
Authored by: rmanke on Dec 07, '07 10:49:00AM

This can fix a bug whereby the Crash Reporter appears in the wrong space.

Sometimes, an application will crash, and the reporter appears in a non-active space, or behind the window of another program.

By telling it to appear in all spaces will probably fix this issue...hopefully...



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10.5: Display Crash Reporter windows in separate spaces
Authored by: asmeurer on Dec 08, '07 12:27:30PM

I didn't notice before I posted this hint that the clicking on report will jump to the space that you chose for it. We will just have to wait for a hint to disable Space jumping for specific Apps and/or spaces to fix that. Sorry if this hint implied otherwise.



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10.5: Display Crash Reporter windows in separate spaces
Authored by: asmeurer on Jun 17, '08 11:15:36AM

Space jumping can now be disabled in the Spaces Preference Pane.



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