Hey good call!  Turning off Power Nap on Mojave has restored Skim to its former 
glory.  It now updates automatically when I change a PDF from LaTeX.  

On Mojave you don't seem to be able to disable app nap per application any 
more, but I can turn it off system-wide by unchecking the "Enable Power Nap" 
option on the "Power Adapter" tab of the Energy Saver preferences pane.  This 
is ok, since I am always plugged into a power adapter when I am using the 
external screen.  Something for the Wiki perhaps.

Many thanks for your helpful support, and more generally thanks for Skim.app 
itself.

Toby Thurston


> On 20 Dec 2018, at 10:41, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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 <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>:
> 
> 
>> On 19 Dec 2018, at 23:49, Toby Thurston <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> 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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