When I tried to open it directly from Finder, it also failed to open. I use the GUI, and the button that says “Open in COOT” was not greyed out, but would not launch the window.
#Update xquartz mac mac#
I downloaded the latest Mac Update, 10.15 Catalina, and then Coot wouldn’t open on my computer. Rachel Werther / Research Technician III / Stoddard Lab / Basic Sciences / Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center / / 20įrom: CCP4 bulletin board > on behalf of "Werther, Rachel A" > Try reinstalling XQuartz from, then log out and log back in (or reboot, that should do it too), and see if Coot starts up normally.” And Coot requires XQuartz to display its window, so this is the most likely explanation for why it would not work after a system update. “…macOS updates typically wipe out most files of your XQuartz installation (XQuartz.app will still be where it was originally installed, but unlike most Mac applications this one is not self-contained and has important files under /opt/X11 that get erased by a system update). I was using the most updated version of XQuartz before I reinstalled it, but as Guillaume Gaullier told me: The reinstallation of XQuartz worked for me. We have had a few reports of issues when installing on a fresh 10.15 machine through the CCP4 downloads manager (tarball route still works). This will work for an updated system that had CCP4 previously installed on it. Email discussion lists for the UK Education and Research communitiesĪs has been pointed out, and as per usual, OS X updates seem to remove some of the setup for XQuartz, which will cause most X11 based apps to stop working.