<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I can add a bit more to my experience, as I can now generate this situation on demand. Here's how:</div><div><br></div><div>1. Open TeXShop</div><div>2. Don't open a file: just keep the blank "untitled" window</div><div>3. Restart the computer</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.)</div><div><br></div><div>So, in summary, this isn't a huge problem for me, but I thought it might be worth mentioning.</div><div><br></div><div>Bill Slough</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 9:39 PM Richard Koch <<a href="mailto:koch@uoregon.edu">koch@uoregon.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Bill,<br>
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> On Mar 9, 2022, at 6:38 PM, William Slough <<a href="mailto:wslough@gmail.com" target="_blank">wslough@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> 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.<br>
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> 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.<br>
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> This is rare and not a deal breaker by any means…but I wonder if others have experienced this.<br>
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> Bill Slough<br>
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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.<br>
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