implot interactive commands
cby wrote on Oct 26, 2010
I just installed iraf on my macbook pro (running snow leopard) from the scisoft package and am trying to run through a canned set of instructions for a reduction. I get to a step where I have to call implot and it opens the file just fine and displays it. However, implot will accept no keyboard commands, not even 'q'. I end up having to kill the xgterm window and start over. I've tried a couple of different iraf downloads, but it's a common feature to all of them. I was doing this in parallel with another mac user who also had just installed iraf and they didn't have this problem.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Oct 26, 2010
Sounds like it could just be a windows focus problem, i.e. your X system is setup to require that you click the window before it accepts keyboard focus. On 10.6 systems the X11 Preferences panel has a 'Windows' tab you should select that will let you select a 'Focus Follows Mouse' policy for input. It it's not there, you can set this directly from the terminal window with the command
% sudo defaults write com.apple.x11 wm_ffm -bool truecby wrote on Oct 26, 2010
:D
That did it! I had never seen that problem before. What's odd is that it wasn't working even if I clicked the windows. Clearly the Focus Follows Mouse allows more communication. Thanks.
That did it! I had never seen that problem before. What's odd is that it wasn't working even if I clicked the windows. Clearly the Focus Follows Mouse allows more communication. Thanks.
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