Dear Stan, Len et al:
I want to apologize to the 10,000 or so who have emailed me about coot
in the last couple of days. I've been working on a proposal and my
children declared biological warfare on me, so I've been a bit slow
about responding. I hope you will forgive the blanket, impersonal
reply.
I have installed your 10.5 intel coot binary to run on my intel
Imac using Fink.
When I source the program, the following error message appears:
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/X11/lib/libXrandr.2.dylib
Referenced from: /sw/bin/coot
Reason: Incompatible library version: coot requires version 4.0.0
or later, but libXrandr.2.dylib provides version 3.0.0
Trace/BPT trap
Is there an easy fix to this, or should I just go to the pub.
For coot on 10.5, I installed the latest X11 with the hope it would
improve things, and this has newer versions of some libraries that get
linked dynamically, which has caused many people some grief.
To get the newer X11, go here:
http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/xquartz
You can check to see if it is the right version this way:
otool -L /usr/X11/lib/libXrandr.dylib
/usr/X11/lib/libXrandr.dylib:
/usr/X11/lib/libXrandr.2.dylib (compatibility version 4.0.0,
current version 4.0.0)
The Apple X11 guy is now working with coot to try to fix the bug that
causes it to freeze or crash, and there will likely be a new release
soon. The problem is beyond my very limited abilities, I am afraid.
So start the download and then go to the pub.
I've been using your cootautoopener and have trouble with crosseye
stereo. using a ppc mac and a thin 20 inch diagonal screen, when i
expand to a larger viewing area, the stereo images are not the same
size. i can sometimes use a work around by quitting and re-starting
but this often doesn't work.
my screen currently is running at 1920 X1200.
any idea what i am doing wrong?
The auto-opener is just a wrapper for a shell script that starts coot
for you, so that is probably a red herring. Window resizing in the
context of Apple's X11 is a bit buggy. In my case, once I go into
stereo mode, and then leave, I can no longer make the window any
smaller.
I saw what you describe on linux once, but not OS X. However, I've
seen other weird stuff on OS X that probably is due to the same bug.
The safest work-around in this case is to start coot without the auto-
saved script, which will resize your window. Size the window so that
it is the desired size vertically and then 1/2 of the desired size for
stereo horizontally, and then switch into the stereo mode. It should
then do the right thing. If you save the state and then re-start in
mono, the window will be too large, so this is an irritation, but I
can't think of a better way to deal with it.
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Further notes: I still haven't figured out hardware stereo on 10.5.
Unfortunately I don't own such a machine, so I can't do a whole lot.
Bill
