Hi Eaazhisai, When Mac X11 Chimera starts it uses osascript to start the Apple X11 server if it is not already running. First it tries to determine if X11 is already running. That can take a bit of time since it simply tries to connect to X11 and has to wait until that connection fails. All of this start-up can take a bit of time -- on my 2 year old MacBook Pro laptop running Mac OS 10.5.6 it takes 15 seconds. The second time I start it takes only 2 seconds because X11 is already running and Chimera is already in the operating system in-memory disk cache. If you want a little faster start-up the first time you can use Mac Aqua Chimera -- took 8 seconds the first time, 2 seconds the second time on my machine. I recommend the Mac Aqua Chimera instead of the Mac X11 Chimera because Apple does not support X11 well. Tom Eaazhisai Kandiah wrote:

Hi Chimera-Developers,

Recently, my work-computer was upgraded from MaC-OS 10.4 to 10.5. I installed the Chimera X-windows version for 10.5. Apparently, while starting the program, it takes almost 2min for the program to get activated. While checking the activity monitor, chimera tries to use 'OSASCRIPT' which together with Chimera, showed as 'not-responding'. I couldn't troubleshoot the reason for this huge delay in start and hence rectify it. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,

Eaazhisai Kandiah Laboratory of Structural Biology NIAMS, National Institutes of Health, Room 1511,Bldg 50 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD-20892 kandiahe@mail.nih.gov <mailto:kandiahe@mail.nih.gov> Off: 301 451 2281 Fax: 301 480 7629

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