1. The access controls mean that any file sin the D/D/D folders (Downloads/Documents/Desktop) and subfolders are protected. It may extend to the user's current directory as well (where the D/D/D direc

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A user (who may post soon after he has tested more) mentioned elsewhere that XTrackCad started for him with a window when he used the Beta3 version of the latest XQuartz (available from the xquartz we

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David, As the Mac Install instructions note, once installed, you need to Right-Click on the XTrackCAD program object in Finder and click "Open". This is another security feature of Catalina and up tha

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This has been the biggest help in using XtrkCad on my Mac! I could not figure out how to change the font size since I regularly keep my resolution at scale to 1920x1200 on my MacBook Pro. Thanks so mu

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Turns out that the problem was present in version 4.3.0. It just didn't manifest because of the way I used the program. Searching the web for XQuartz and multiple monitors turned up the suggestion to

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Vince, In OSX the entire display surface of both displays counts as one large "monitor" for X11 apps. This means that if you use the entire surface and then shrink it, by removing a monitor the progra

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Mike, Until you have installed XQuartz properly (its not part of OSX) the the program won't run. The background is that XTrackCAD is a X11 program and Apple stopped supporting X11 and open-sourced it

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Well the fact the program started says that it isn’t a simple install issue. You got Catalina to start it - so well done. The most likely cause is that there is a smaller message needing a response lu

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Please see the new install instructions at http://www.xtrkcad.org/Wikka/MacOSX. The precis is - Follow the normal install (including installing XQuartz) - see instructions. Create a new folder under y

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So, after toying around with the Plist keys, they do not seem to be making any difference. I think that it is highly likely that the keys in the Plist will only work if the app has been through Apple'

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Adam, Thank you. As expected, it was a Cockpit Problem. Ron

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Simon, Mac builds are with the rest - https://sourceforge.net/projects/xtrkcad-fork/files/XTrackCad/Version%205.1.2/ They are labelled OSX and have a filetype of dmg. The 32bit version is only for old

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where can I download it for an apple mac ?

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Question - What is XQuartz doing? Did you remember to (re)install it after you upgraded OS X and then log out and back in (or restart)? The expected pattern is that XtrkCAD starts, causes quartz to st

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Hi, Everything I have tried works correct running under Mojave. I have not tried absolutely everything, so I cannot give you a 100% guarantee, but as far as I can tell there is no noticeable effect of

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