[texworks] Preferences on Mac OS X 10.6.2

[Jonathan Kew]

On 22 Nov 2009, at 08:13, Helge Baumann wrote:

> just did this, but didn't help.
> TeXWorks starts up, everything works except preferences :(
>
> I think, I have to start debugging ...


I have not yet updated to 10.6 myself, so I'm guessing here.... I've  
seen various reports of font-related problems on 10.6.x, so I wonder  
if it might be hanging when it tries to build the font menu (for the  
Editor panel in Preferences).

One thing you can do is to "sample" the process when it is in this  
hung state (open Activity Monitor, select the TeXworks process, and  
click the Sample Process button). This may show us where it's stuck.

JK

>
> Bye
> Helge
>
> Am 21.11.2009 um 23:13 schrieb Herbert Schulz:
>
>>
>> On Nov 21, 2009, at 1:29 PM, Helge Baumann wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I wanted to open preferences on my MacBook Pro with Mac OS X  
>>> 10.6.2, but got just the spinning ball?
>>> I can't find any existing (may be damaged) preferences files, it  
>>> just doesn't work ...
>>>
>>> Any suggestions or other people with the same problem?
>>>
>>> Bye
>>> Helge
>>>
>>
>> Howdy,
>>
>> The preference file is ~/Library/Preferences/ 
>> org.tug.TeXworks.plist, where ~ is your HOME directory. Simply  
>> remove it from that folder and start up TeXworks.
>>
>> Good Luck,
>>
>> Herb Schulz
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>