Subject: Re: [nmr_sparky] Sparky on Mac OS 10.6?
From: Tom Goddard
Date: Nov 4 10:25 AM

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From: Victor Jaravine
To: Thomas Goddard
Date: 11/3/09 12:53 AM

i have downloaded sparky-mac10.4-intel.dmg now. i have X11 from the
OSX 10.6.1.
i changed mouse and click options as described in sparky installation.
however after starting sparky after 1 min bouncing it shows
application not responding.

Hi Victor,

I suspect this is a Mac X server issue. Try quitting the X11 server,
then start Sparky by clicking on Sparky.app. On my stock Mac 10.6.1
machine this starts the X11 server and Sparky windows appear and it all
runs fine. I recall a year ago someone pointed out that if you start
X11 by hand before starting Sparky then it doesnt work. The problem
with that seemed to be with Mac OS having some tricky mechanism to
automatically start the X11 server when an application needs it.
Somehow that broke things if you started X11 yourself before running the
app (e.g. Sparky) that needs it.

Tom

From: Victor Jaravine
To: Tom Goddard
Date: 11/4/09 2:12 AM

yes, that was like you described. now it seems to work.