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 Î 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 >> ______________________________________________________________________________________ >> Joseph P. Noel, Ph.D. >> Arthur and Julie Woodrow Chair >> Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute >> Professor, The Jack H. Skirball Center for Chemical Biology and Proteomics >> The Salk Institute for Biological Studies >> 10010 North Torrey Pines Road >> La Jolla, CA 92037 USA >> >> Phone: (858) 453-4100 extension 1442 >> Cell: (858) 349-4700 >> Fax: (858) 597-0855 >> E-mail: [email protected] >> >> Publications & Citations: >> http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=xiL1lscAAAAJ >> >> Homepage Salk: http://www.salk.edu/faculty/noel.html >> Homepage HHMI: http://hhmi.org/research/investigators/noel.html >> ______________________________________________________________________________________ >> >> 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 >>> >>> >>> >> >
