Perhaps it is due to Skim going into app nap? This will delay
responsiveness to changes significantly.

Christiaan

Op do 20 dec. 2018 01:10 schreef Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com:

>
>
> On 19 Dec 2018, at 23:49, Toby Thurston <thurs...@eml.cc> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure if this is a bug, but I see that some years ago others have
> reported odd behaviour with Skim on a second monitor.
>
> I have an external screen attached to the display port on of my macbook
> pro.
>
> I use Skim to view PDFs as I'm creating them with TeX.  I have Skim set to
> auto update.
>
> If the Skim window is on the macbook screen, it all works normally (as it
> has done for years).
> But if I put Skim on the external monitor, I get one update, then all
> subsequent updates are ignored, and I have to go and click "Revert" in the
> Skim menus to force a change.
>
> I first noticed this on High Sierra when 1.4.38 came out.
> I've recently upgraded to Mojave but the behaviour is the same.  I don't
> think I saw this behaviour on 1.4.37 but I only used that for a couple of
> days before upgrading to 1.4.38 for the scroll to page 1 bug fix.  I am
> quite sure I did not see this behaviour on 1.4.36.
>
> Any clues about what might be causing this?  My work around is to move my
> editor to the big screen and keep skim on the macbook screen, but I'd like
> to have it the other way.
>
> Thanks
> Toby Thurston
>
>
> I have no idea. I don’t see how the display could affect the updating, as
> the update checking is not related to display.
>
> Christiaan
>
>
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