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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Thu Sep 04 2014 - 07:45:04 CDT

On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Davide Mercadante
<dmer018_at_aucklanduni.ac.nz> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> as an update of my latest report (see forwarded) I was not able to solve it
> by uninstalling quicklook. It's not that the problem that must come from
> either OpenGL or VMD on the latest MacOS.
>
> After running several tests I noticed that the OpenGL window freezes when
> VMD opens a window from the OS. For example, it freezes when I open windows
> that would browse through my files (Finder window). For example:
>
> Load new molecule or add data into a molecule
> Load visualization state
> Save file/image/state etc...
>
> As soon as the Finder window is open, the OpenGL display freezes.
> Is there any possibility to look into this issue as soon as possible? I
> cannot work on VMD anymore...

from what you describe this first and foremost sounds like a bug in
your OS (or more specifically the OpenGL support in it) and not in
VMD.
so the right place would be to communicate with the user support for your OS.

axel.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Cheers,
> Davide
>
> On 3/09/14 9:37 pm, Davide Mercadante wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am encountering the following issue using VMD after updating my OS with a
> (beta) version of Yosemite, the newest OS of Mac. The OpenGL windows
> randomly freezes and I get this messages in the terminal:
>
> vmd[5984:194283] [QL]
> file://localhost/Library/QuickLook/GBQLGenerator.qlgenerator/ has no
> identifier: ignoring
> vmd[5984:194283] [QL]
> file://localhost/Library/QuickLook/SogouSkinPreviewer.qlgenerator/ has no
> identifier: ignoring
>
> After this happens there is no other way of using it than killing it and
> start again. This happens randomly, sometimes just opening another window
> from the VMD menu, or loading another molecule, etc... All the windows still
> work, open and close, but the molecule in the OpenGL windows just doesn't
> move, cannot be rotated or translated. I am not sure if this is related to
> the newest OS, however, this wasn't happening before.
>
> I would be grateful if you would give me hints on how to solve this.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Cheers,
> Davide
>
> 

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Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer  akohlmey_at_gmail.com  http://goo.gl/1wk0
College of Science & Technology, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA
International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste. Italy.