[PyMOL] PyMol fruit-menu incompatability on OS X

[William Scott]

Hi:

I've noticed that the performance of pymol on my laptop after an OS X 
upgrade to 10.2 (and corresponding pymol 0.84 upgrade) was much worse.  
Although I think 10.2.1 is definitely slower and more buggy than 
10.1.5, I tracked down the main culprit:  A $7 piece of shareware 
called Fruit Menu.  (It lets you put whatever you want in the 
upper-left corner blue apple pulldown, much like OS 9 favorites).  I 
disabled something called an Application Enhancer that gets installed 
with Fruit Menu by moving it from its original Library folder location 
to a new one, logged out and back in again.  (This temporarily disables 
fruit menu, but it is a small price to pay).  When I then log back in 
again, pymol is significantly speedier (although I still think it 
worked better under 10.1.5.)

This is much more of a problem on my 500MHz iBook, which is what I use 
with pymol for oral presentations, than it is with faster machines.  I 
am suspicious that this problem actually doesn't arise on dual 
processor machines.

I've also noticed that this same Application Enhancer thing screws up 
OroborOSX, my X-windows manager.  A similar cure works.

Anyway I thought I would pass this along in case anyone is having 
problems like this on 10.2.x with pymol.  If anyone has a better 
workaround, I'd like to know ...


All the best,

Bill Scott