[OS X TeX] TeXShop on Monterey: weird behavior?

[William Slough]

Hi all,

I can add a bit more to my experience, as I can now generate this situation
on demand. Here's how:

1. Open TeXShop
2. Don't open a file: just keep the blank "untitled" window
3. Restart the computer

After the computer restarts, there are two TeXShop windows ... the original
untitled window and a second window, in gray. There appears to be no other
way to remove the gray window other than to force quit.

This sounds like a crazy situation I'm describing, but bear in mind I've
been having a lot of troubles with my Mac crashing recently and then
rebooting. (For those interested, this started when I got a "Volume Hash
Mismatch" error. That's an entirely different story with no clear
resolution.)

So, in summary, this isn't a huge problem for me, but I thought it might be
worth mentioning.

Bill Slough

On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 9:39 PM Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:

> Bill,
>
> > On Mar 9, 2022, at 6:38 PM, William Slough <wslough at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am reluctant to ask this, because I cannot duplicate the behavior.
> However, it has happened to me several times recently. Likewise, it’s
> happened to a colleague so I know it is not unique. We have two relatively
> recent Macs, one with Intel and one with Apple silicon. Both are running
> Monterey.
> >
> > When the problem occurs, two TeXShop windows appear: one gray and one
> white, and there is some apparent CPU activity in one of them — the little
> line segment marching in a circle. The only apparent fix is a force quit.
> >
> > This is rare and not a deal breaker by any means…but I wonder if others
> have experienced this.
> >
> > Bill Slough
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> This is just a wild guess. Could you be choosing Edit --> Experiment by
> mistake? This would create a small edit window and a small typeset window.
> Their size would depend on past history of using Experiment and thus not be
> predictable. The edit window would be white and the other would be gray
> until an experiment was typeset.
>
> Dick Koch
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