In article <[email protected]>, Murray Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> OS is Mavericks. > > Will try wxMaxima. > > On Nov 13, 2013, at 4:07 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > Hi Murray, > > > > On Nov 13, 2013, at 4:11 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote: > >> I installed maxima @5.30.0_0+xmaxima. By itself, the command-line maxima > >> works (so far) as expected. > > good. > > > >> When, instead, I start xmaxima from the command-line, I get two windows > >> Xmaxima: browser and Xmaxima: console. If I double-click one of the > >> highlighted lines in the Xmaxima: browser window, then the output appears > >> in the Xmaxima:browser window, and both the input and corresponding output > >> appear in the Xmaxima:console window as well. > > Yes, that's intentional. > > The browser just shows you a section from the manual, which you're advised > > to click through to show off some of maxima's and xmaxima's features. > > > >> But I cannot type any input directly into the Xmaxima: console window. > >> Shouldn¹t I be able to do so? And, if not, how can one enter input of > >> one¹s own (instead of just evaluate what¹s in the prepared html page > >> showing in the Xmaxima:browser window? > > You should be able to enter your own lines in the console. > > If not, which Mac OS version are you using? > > Here on my SL it works seamlessly. > > > > Greets, > > Marko > > > > P.S.: Perhaps you would like to install wxMaxima and try that too. If the problem is seen using the quartz (native) Tk on Mavericks, it's very likely you are running into a critical Tk problem on Mavericks. There is a simple patch available that fixes the problem. https://trac.macports.org/ticket/41278 -- Ned Deily, [email protected] _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
