VMD-L Mailing List

From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 10 2020 - 14:40:29 CST

Hi,
  Yes, I've been tracking the patches to FLTK in particular.
We'll also have to do a fair amount of testing to ensure the changes
don't have surprising side effects between FLTK and Tcl/Tk, but I
expect to have early results from testing in the next week or so.

At the same time we're also working on compiling VMD on the new
M1 ARM-based Mac hardware, so we've got a lot of action here at present...

Best,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 03:10:04PM -0500, Mortimer Hemmit wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I found some threads that encounter the same problem and seem to have
> found a fix. Hopefully these are at least of some help.
>
> https://www.cendio.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7539
> https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/issues/1087
> https://www.fltk.org/newsgroups.php?s14537+gfltk.commit+v14544
>
> On Mon, Dec 7, 2020 at 1:15 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?
> >
> > --
> > NIH Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> > Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> > University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/ Phone: 217-244-3349
> > http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/
> > 

-- 
NIH Center for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/           Phone: 217-244-3349
http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/vmd/