RE: [PyMOL] PyMol fruit-menu incompatability on OS X

[DeLano, W. <wa...@su...>]

William,

	You might want to try using the "top" utility to determine whether or =
not some other process is soaking up CPU while PyMOL is=20


-----Original Message-----
From: William Scott [mailto:wg...@hy...]
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 7:13 PM
To: pym...@li...
Subject: [PyMOL] PyMol fruit-menu incompatability on OS X


Hi:

I've noticed that the performance of pymol on my laptop after an OS X=20
upgrade to 10.2 (and corresponding pymol 0.84 upgrade) was much worse. =20
Although I think 10.2.1 is definitely slower and more buggy than=20
10.1.5, I tracked down the main culprit:  A $7 piece of shareware=20
called Fruit Menu.  (It lets you put whatever you want in the=20
upper-left corner blue apple pulldown, much like OS 9 favorites).  I=20
disabled something called an Application Enhancer that gets installed=20
with Fruit Menu by moving it from its original Library folder location=20
to a new one, logged out and back in again.  (This temporarily disables=20
fruit menu, but it is a small price to pay).  When I then log back in=20
again, pymol is significantly speedier (although I still think it=20
worked better under 10.1.5.)

This is much more of a problem on my 500MHz iBook, which is what I use=20
with pymol for oral presentations, than it is with faster machines.  I=20
am suspicious that this problem actually doesn't arise on dual=20
processor machines.

I've also noticed that this same Application Enhancer thing screws up=20
OroborOSX, my X-windows manager.  A similar cure works.

Anyway I thought I would pass this along in case anyone is having=20
problems like this on 10.2.x with pymol.  If anyone has a better=20
workaround, I'd like to know ...


All the best,

Bill Scott




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