Dear PyMOL community,

The X11 flickering problem can be resolved by launching Pymol with pymol -M
from the command line. Thank you for the helpful comments.

S.

2011/6/16 Andreas Förster <[email protected]>

> Hey Spyros,
>
> when I got my first Mac, three years ago, I was told to forget about the
> X11 that came with OSX and install the community effort instead.  It used to
> be called X11 as well and replaced the built-in X11, but since Snow Leopard,
> it's called XQuartz and exists side-by-side.  Both are rubbish if you're
> used to linux.
>
> Could you reply to the list that your problem is solved?  I remember when I
> had the problem first - pulling the PyMOL viewer onto the external screen
> rudely logged me out every time - it took me months to find the solution.
>  It's good to have it written down, at least in some obscure mailing list
> archive.
>
>
> Andreas
>
>
>
>
>
> On 16/06/2011 9:09, Spyros Charonis wrote:
>
>> Hi Andreas,
>>
>> That was a slip of my finger - OS X 10.6 is what I mean. As you say,
>> 10.7 has still not been released. pymol -M does in fact solve the
>> problem. I installed mine via MacPorts, I didn't know about the XQuartz
>> project but will try that out since X11 may be reaching the end of its
>> lifespan!
>>
>> Many thanks
>> Spyros
>>
>>
>
> --
>        Andreas Förster, Research Associate
>        Paul Freemont & Xiaodong Zhang Labs
> Department of Biochemistry, Imperial College London
>            http://www.msf.bio.ic.ac.uk
>
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