[R-SIG-Mac] Using a second monitor, running R under Unix

[John Maindonald]

Thanks.  Presumably the replacement device will have have a  
functioning event loop manager?  That will be nice.  quartz() offers  
some features that are not available from x11().

John Maindonald             email: john.maindonald at anu.edu.au
phone : +61 2 (6125)3473    fax  : +61 2(6125)5549
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Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200.


On 18 Jan 2007, at 2:55 AM, Simon Urbanek wrote:

> Thanks, John.
> This this should be now fixed in the R24-branch (e.g. fetch the  
> installer from http://r.research.att.com tomorrow). It is a quick  
> hack, legacy Quartz windows will now appear in the center of the  
> main screen.
>
> In general that device (Quartz in console R) is unsupported and  
> will go away very soon, because it is a legacy from very old times  
> and the API it uses is now deprecated and Apple will remove it from  
> future OS X versions. We are working on a replacement device for R- 
> devel, but it won't work in R 2.4.1, so stay tuned and I'll let you  
> know when it's time to test the new beast ;).
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
>
> On Jan 14, 2007, at 6:04 PM, John Maindonald wrote:
>
>> I am using a MacBook Pro with Core 2 Duo, with an external screen
>> connected that is set to appear above the MacBook Pro's screen.  The
>> laptop's menu appear bar is set to appear at the top of the external
>> monitor.
>>
>> When I run R under ESS, or from the Unix command line, and type  
>> quartz
>> (), the graphics window appears to the "left" of the external
>> monitor.  Hitting the F9 key brings it into view, but there seems no
>> way to grab it with the mouse and move it onto less ephemeral real
>> estate.  [Under R.app, all is well.]
>>
>> [With x11() half the window is off to the left, and I can drag it to
>> anywhere I want (either screen).]
>>
>> A further issue is that when I plot anything on the quartz screen, I
>> get an "error: message, thus:
>>
>>> quartz()
>> Warning message:
>> quartz() device interactivity reduced without an event loop manager
>> in: quartz()
>>> plot(1:5, 1:5)
>> CGGStackRestore: gstack underflow.
>>
>> The "CGGStackRestore: gstack underflow" message looks ominous, but it
>> does not cause evident problems.
>>
>> Is there something I can do so that the positioning of the second
>> screen is recognized?  At some time in the past, I am sure that  
>> quartz
>> () [ and x11()] used to correctly recognize the positioning of the
>> screens.  However it is a while since I used quartz(), and I would
>> not have paid too much attention to the x11() behaviour.
>> John Maindonald
>>
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18)
>> i386-apple-darwin8.8.1
>>
>> locale:
>> C
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] "splines"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"
>> "datasets"
>> [7] "methods"   "base"
>>
>>
>> John Maindonald             email: john.maindonald at anu.edu.au
>> phone : +61 2 (6125)3473    fax  : +61 2(6125)5549
>> Centre for Mathematics & Its Applications, Room 1194,
>> John Dedman Mathematical Sciences Building (Building 27)
>> Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200.
>>
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