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I solved this problem very easily, by downgrading to Snow Leopard. Also that got rid of kernel panics caused by a bug in Darwin virtual ttys.

The worst part of Lion's featured 'fullscreen mode' is that software, that worked fine in fullscreen before, now uses Lion's fullscreen. This doesn't happen on Snow Leopard.

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Don't you need Lion for the latest Xcode these days? If you're not doing anything in Xcode you might as well boot Linux (or Windows :).

Unfortunately for iOS developers, yes, you need Lion for latest XCode.

Compiler toolchain and other stuff is available via older xcode or gcc-osx-installer project, though.

The problem with this approach is that a bunch of apps in the App Store, unaccountably, ask for Lion+. I can't see what particular API feature they are using that requires a full OS upgrade, but the last 5 applications I was ready to pay for weren't compatible with Snow Leopard.

Lion uses versions instead of files (which is its own can of worms). Maintaining support for both sounds like a pain, actually.

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