On Oct 31, 2014, at 5:24 AM, Colin A. Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> This thread got a bit off the topics I was originally hoping to discuss. Can > anyone running Yosemite comment on whether their default graphics device is > quartz or x11? > The auto-lauch DISPLAY setting has changed in Xquartz so R was assuming you're enforcing X11 by having a custom DISPLAY setting. This should be now fixed to detect the new setting n 3.1.2. > Also, is there any hope that the patch for the quartz command line device > might be considered? > Too late now, but the problem with the original patch is that it used a NIB which we want to avoid as to not have to ship resources. If you know how to fix the *code* then sure, I'll consider it. Feel free to discuss directly with me. (Sorry for not responding earlier, though). Cheers, Simon > Cheers, > > Colin > >> On Oct 28, 2014, at 23:33, Colin A. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I’ve been using command line R fairly successfully under Yosemite so far and >> have only run into a few issues, mostly related to the quartz device. >> >> First, it seems that under Yosemite, the default device is now x11 instead >> of quartz. I found this with the exact same pkg install of R that I was >> using in Mavericks, which defaulted to quartz. Installing the latest >> Mavericks build (3.1.1) results in the same behavior. Even when running >> "R_DEFAULT_DEVICE=quartz R”, the default device still ends up being x11. The >> quartz device can still be created manually with a call to quartz(). Does >> anyone else have this same problem? >> >> Second, the menus for the quartz device created through the command line >> have gotten even stranger under Yosemite. With the current version there are >> actually two (!) Apple menus displayed, which looks quite odd: >> >> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/21171664/R_Two_Apple_Menus.png >> >> About a year ago I submitted a patch with made the command line quartz >> device act much more like a normal OS X application: >> >> https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15438#c1 >> >> This patch continues to work well under Yosemite, and does not display the >> double Apple menu problem. However, it seems to have currently fallen off >> the radar. Given the even stranger behavior of the current code under >> Yosemite, perhaps evaluation of my patch could be given a higher priority? >> If it would help I can provide updated files which are drop-in replacements >> for the current R trunk. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Colin > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > [email protected] > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
