Is this a killer for updating to 10.9? Is it still usable with this option? I 
have my laptop plugged into an external display, but keep my laptop as a 
secondary screen.

I've been holding off updating from 10.8 to 10.9, and wondering when or if I 
should do it

Phil
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On 18 Feb 2014, at 22:49, William G. Scott <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Joe:
> 
> Thanks very much for your encouraging and kind words.
> 
> I just had a problem today that might be related.  Briefly, with 2 monitors 
> on 10.9.1, coot opens and then disappears .  I don’t get the “footprints”, 
> but that might be monitor or graphics-card specific.
> 
> In any case, the work-around (which I am not happy with) is to go into System 
> Preferences > Mission Control and uncheck the box that says “Displays have 
> separate Spaces”.  Then log out and log back in again, and maybe it will work.
> 
> <Screen Shot 2014-02-18 at 2.43.47 PM.png>
> 
> If that fixes it, this is the bug.  No one wants to take responsibility:
> 
> https://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/ticket/817
> 
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Feb 13, 2014, at 12:14 PM, Joseph Noel <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Bill!
>> 
>> Don't apologize! You are doing a world of service for the community! I am 
>> running the latest and running the Maverick. One thing I found out - if I 
>> open Coot through CCP4, from Phenix or directly from an xwindow, the coot 
>> window appears but is white and if you read in anything, nothing shows up. 
>> If you then "drag" the window, it leaves behind "footprints". If, however, I 
>> leave this original Coot window open and start a second Coot session using 
>> any of the three methods, i.e. started from within ccp4i, started from 
>> within Phenix or started from an xwindow using /usr/local/bin/coot, this 
>> second session works fine - black background, can see maps and coordinates, 
>> ...
>> 
>> Does that help in diagnosing? It must be something I am doing on my MacBook 
>> Pro running 10.9.1 and XQuartz 2.7.5.
>> 
>> Joe
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>> 
>> On Feb 13, 2014, at 7:10 AM, William G. Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Feb 11, 2014, at 7:19 PM, Joseph Noel <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I've started installing the latest nightly builds of Coot that Bill Scott 
>>>> maintains. They go into /usr/local/bin/coot. It will open but the screen 
>>>> is white, if you move the window around on the Mac it seems to duplicate 
>>>> and worse, if you load coordinates or a map, nothing appears. I must have 
>>>> missed something in setting it up but if anyone has a suggestion of 
>>>> something I am missing would be much appreciated.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Sorry for the problems.
>>> 
>>> Which version of OS X is it?  If it is compatible, it might be worth 
>>> downloading the latest version of X11.app:  
>>> https://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/  (It says for 10.6 or later).  If I 
>>> built coot with a more recent version of X11 than you have, this might be 
>>> the problem.
>>> 
>>> I just downloaded the latest coot nightly to check to make sure it worked 
>>> (it does on my 10.9.1 macbook air).
>>> 
>>> — Bill
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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