Anaconda/Rstudio displays at low resolution on mac retina screen - rstudio

The Rstudio installation contained in Anaconda 4.3.1 is displayed at low resolution on my macbook with retina screen.
Other anaconda apps, but also the standalone version of Rstudio look fine.
Any ideas on how this can be solved?

This is a legacy from the days of us supporting macOS 10.7.
Open your RStudio.app/Contents/Info.plist file and add:
<key>NSHighResolutionCapable</key><true/>
.. near the end, just before the </dict>
After that you may need to refresh macOS's cached information after editing and before relaunching.
From Terminal:
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -v -f ${CONDA_PREFIX}/Applications/RStudio.app
I have added it to the code so next time I rebuild it this doesn't get missed.

Same issue. My provisional solution is to run RStudio from the command line. First activate the desired workspace, then run RStudio:
source activate workspace-name
RStudio

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“qmake” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified

I'm trying to install the omnetpp simulator abut I was not able to use its graphic interface. To run it properly I have to install Qt5 which I did through homebrew. My Qt version is 5.15.0 and my MacOS is Catalina (10.15.5 (19F101)).
When running the ./configure command to install omnetpp, I got the following error:
“qmake” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified.
In summary I had problems with the omnetpp when trying to run the graphic interface Qt, then I've installed Qt5 and now I get an error telling me that qmake cannot be verified.
Thanks,
The problem is that this will come many times... It has something to do with the new security settings for MacOS Catalina.
I found another work-around, which worked very well for me. Go to Systems Preferences -> Security and Privacy -> Privacy. Scroll down the left menu to Developer Tools and allow Terminal to run software locally (tick the box).
I was able to circumvent this problem by opening System Preferences, Security & Privacy, General, and then allowing the file to be executed. When I ran make again the Qmake command ran without any warnings or windows popping up.
According to Apple's website, you need to find qmake in the Finder, CTRL+click on it and press "Open". After that, qmake will be marked as an authorized app and you can run ./configure again.
I am a Windows user and could find the official Apple support page (https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/mac-help/mh40616/mac) within a minute of googling, by the way.
You can run the following command to "un-quarantine" your binary (assuming its path is /usr/bin/qmake):
xattr -w com.apple.quarantine "00c1;$(xattr -p com.apple.quarantine /usr/bin/qmake | cut -d";" -f2-4)" /usr/bin/qmake

Unable to open LiClipse 6.1.0 on MacOS/Catalina (10.15.3)

I have downloaded LiClipse 6.1.0 from http://www.liclipse.com/download.html three times (to ensure that I don't have a corrupt/damaged file) and installed it on a MacPro Notebook with MacOS Catalina (10.15.3). I have followed the installation instructions at http://www.liclipse.com/download.html for Native Mac OS Install, but every time I get "“LiClipse.app” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash."
Since it gets installed without any problem, I think that downloaded file is not corrupted/damaged, but when opening it I always get the warning about its being damaged even when I have run sudo spctl --master-disable to enable apps from "Anywhere" to run.
I would appreciate if anyone who had succeeded in opening it on a MacPro/Catalina would share his/her steps. Thanks.
You can try removing the quarantine flag (when Mac downloads a file it marks it as quarantined and it won't run unless it has an Apple signature -- which LiClipse doesn't have, so, Apple is making it always a bit harder to run files you download).
To remove the quarantine flag, run:
xattr -d com.apple.quarantine <FILE>
(<FILE> being /Applications/LiClipse.app and maybe /Applications/LiClipse.app/MacOS/LiClipse too -- I don't really have Catalina to check).

Xcode stuck on "Installing components..."

Xcode keeps getting stuck on "Installing components...", it stops at around 40%. I've let it sit for a whole night, reinstalling it from the App Store and searching for solutions on the internet, but all with no succes.
When I Force Quit and restart Xcode, it does the same thing except that the progress bar immediately jumps to 100% but after that it won't budge. I can only get back to the 40% when i restart my computer.
I have Xcode version 9.4 and i'm running macOS High Sierra (10.13.5).
Question asked when starting the app
Installation stuck at 40%
Installation stuck at 100%
Edit: I've fixed it by deleting some .kext files that were messing things up. Found the following on an Apple Community post:
Open Terminal in /Applications/Utilities
Enter "system_profiler SPExtensionsDataType > ~/Desktop/kextList.txt" without the quotes and hit return(this will take a while to run).
There should now be a kextList.txt file on your desktop, open it and press both the "Apple(Command)" and "F" keys to bring up the find.
In the find field insert "Obtained from: Not Signed" Copy the destination to the .kext file to a list for use later.
Browse your drive to /System/Library/Extensions and remove any of the unsigned kext files.
Reboot and you should be all set.
Starting MacOS in Safe Mode and the starting Xcode should fix the issue. I tried in MacOS High Sierra 10.13.6 and it worked perfectly.

MacVim on OSX / Yosemite: no editor windows visible at all

Installed MacVim on my Yosemite 10.10.2 Macbook Pro today from http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/25988/macvim
The problem is that no editor window(s) are visible. If I open a file using the menu, there's simply no effect: no editor window appears. It's not hidden behind other windows, it's not listed in the Windows menu, it's just entirely undisplayed.
Strangely, the file will appear in the MRU list, though. So this renders the entire editor completely useless. Should I just build gvim myself? Is this app actually being maintained by anyone?
I'd read some answers which suggest running:
brew install macvim
... does the trick.
You might want to try that first.
What worked for me...
However, this didn't work for me because although it updated my macvim, the one being linked to in the /Applications folder was not the version being updated by brew.
So, here are the steps I had to take.
Quit MacVim if open.
Delete the MacVim file in /Applications.
In the terminal, run:
brew install macvim --override-system-vim
Run (this will add the link to your Applications file):
brew linkapps macvim
I can't be sure every step above is required, or that the --override-system-vim flag is required, but I can tell you that doing the above steps worked for me.
Hope this helps.
It looks like MacVim development has been moved to a new repository (and maybe a different group of developers?):
https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim
This repo has had changes applied to fix MacVim's graphical problems under Yosemite. (This is the same location that brew's macvim formula currently pulls its source from, which is why MacVim works on Yosemite when installed via brew.)
They also have a set of precompiled binary releases:
https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim/releases
The latest ("snapshot 76") has worked fine for me in Yosemite so far. You just need to download the .tbz archive, double-click it to unpack to a folder, then drag the MacVim.app icon to Applications -- much easier and less invasive than installing a whole package management system and build environment! :)
Note: I had to execute a command given in another StackOverflow answer to correct a rendering glitch seen in full screen mode for snapshot 76:
$ defaults write org.vim.MacVim MMNativeFullScreen 0
I got the same problem today.
The solution:
mv ~/.vimrc ~/.vimrc_bak
It looks like there is something wrong with my .vimrc file.
I was having the same issue, and one of the answers in here helped me, but not for the reason explained so I thought this might be useful for others.
Some plugins might depend on the version of vim, and may work in version 7 but not in version 8, when you install MacVim this could be version 8, and the terminal vim version might be 7, both will use the same .vim folder and .vimrc to load the plugins and configuration, when you open the vim from terminal it might still work because the plugins were depending on vim version 7, but when you try to execute MacVim it will try to load the plugins using version 8 and then it will crash, the reason some of the answers worked it's because they are replacing the system vim, therefore MacVim and vim will be in the same major version, if you have upgraded from the previous version the best you can do it's to clear up the plugins folder and then load MacVim or vim and check that everything is working, then start applying the plugins one by one checking that they are not breaking vim. At least with this method I found that one of the plugins was not working as expected and removing it solved the "MacVim" issue.
In summary:
- move your .vim as .vim_bak
- move your .vimrc as .vimrc_bak (suggested by #hai feng kao)
And test if this solves the issue, if that's the case then a plugin is breaking your installation and you will need to activate some and figure out which is the one that causes the issue.
Hope this helps to others, I've followed a lot of these recommendations without success until I decided to upgrade vim (terminal) and this started to break as well, that pointed me in the right direction.
Again hope this saves some hours for some.
I had the same symptom with MacVim launching with no window and command-N doesn't start any a new one. brew re-install didn't help.
It turned out there was another instance of macvim installed on my system somehow, in the Downloads folder. I found out by clicking "MacVim" --> "About MacVim" and it was a version from 2014. I found the instance and deleted it.
I created an alias for the newly installed version and copied that into Applications folder so spotlight search can find the new one. That solved my problem.
I had this problem upon updating from MacOS 10.12.5 to 10.12.6.
I uninstalled MacVim by moving it to the trashcan and downloading it again.
I would guess that the new version fixed whatever issue it had with the new operating system.

Issue with uninstalling Xcode 3.2 on Mountain Lion

I just upgraded to Mountain Lion (from Snow Leopard) so as to take advantage of Xcode 4.
Before installing Xcode 4, I would like to remove Xcode 3 (not required, but want to clean up before moving on).
The standard method of removing Xcode 3 is:
$ sudo <Xcode>/Library/uninstall-devtools --mode=all
However, when I issue this command, even from within the /Library folder, the only thing that happens is I get a "command not found" after entering my password.
I can see uninstall-devtools in Finder, so I know it's there. I just can't execute it for some reason. I've tried every possible way of running the uninstall tools.
Assistance is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
If the file really is there, type sudo in the terminal window (with a trailing space), drag and drop the uninstall-devtools file on the window, then append --mode=all. That should clear any chance you have to make a typo or any other mistake.
Similarly to information I found in another SO article, my laptop's old XCode 3.2 didn't even have the uninstall-tools utility.
So it worked fine for me to simply delete the XCode.app folder.

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