Well after sending this off I finally hit on the right search terms and found this thread,
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg03392.html The "fix" with the latest X11 update is still what Bill Scott said, ">> 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" Not a great solution but at least it works for now. Cheers, Len Leonard M. Thomas Ph.D. Macromolecular Crystallography Laboratory Manager University of Oklahoma Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Stephenson Life Sciences Research Center 101 Stephenson Parkway Norman, OK 73019 405-325-1126 [email protected] http://barlywine.chem.ou.edu http://structuralbiology.ou.edu ________________________________________ From: Mailing list for users of COOT Crystallographic Software [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Emsley [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 10:33 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: No graphics window on osx 10.9 On 02/06/14 16:15, Thomas, Leonard M. wrote: > Hello All, > > I just upgraded my Mac to 10.9. I have tried both the stable version of coot > 0.7.1 and also a daily build of 0.8 and still have the same problem of no > graphics window showing up. The terminal output ends at > > (set-display-lists-for-maps 0) > load "tips-gui.scm" > load "check-for-updates.scm" > load "jligand-gui.scm" > load "get-recent-pdbe.scm" > load "extensions.scm" > load "shelx-extensions.scm" > (filter-fileselection-filenames-state) > (get-active-map-drag-flag) > (use-graphics-interface-state) > > Any ideas as to what I maybe missing are welcome. > Dear Len, I understand that crystallography is tricky on 10.9. At a guess, X11 has not been started before you try to run coot. So give that a go? Maybe something to do with the version/distribution of X11 you are running? One day we will make a native (non-X11) version of Coot, so this problem will go away. But not today. Paul.
