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From: Pacci Evaristo, Felipe Fabricio (felipepacci_at_gmail.com)
Date: Mon Dec 07 2020 - 12:10:17 CST

Thanks for responding! I really appreciate it! And good luck with the
adjustments!

On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 1:01 PM John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The latest Apple Big Sur operating system has broken the behavior
> of many applications (like VMD) that use cross-platform graphical
> user interface toolkits.
>
> We don't have a solution for this problem presently, but we are already
> testing new versions of the GUI toolkit libraries VMD uses to see if
> they might address the problems with Big Sur going forward.
>
> At the present time I have no estimate of how long it might take for
>
> this to be solved since the problems are not related to any VMD code,
> and involve only software written by others.
>
> When we think there's a solution, we will make it clear on the
> VMD web site and on the VMD-L mailing list.
>
> Best regards,
>
> John Stone
>
> vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
> On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 05:35:36PM -0500, Pacci Evaristo, Felipe Fabricio
> wrote:
> > Is there an estimate for when an operational version of VMD for macOS
> Big
> > Sur will be available? If not, how can I get the macOS Catalina
> version of
> > VMD to run on macOS Big Sur?
>
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