ARB freezes upon using keyboard

[guest]

I am running arb version 7.0.1 on macOS Monterey version 12.4. This was installed using home-brew.

Arb is able to run fine until the is used. Upon using the , the software freezes. I am unable to interact with any of the buttons in arb or close the windows. To close arb, I must quit XQuartz from the dock.

For example, upon opening arb, I try to change the suffix from .arb to something else. Clicking the box shows a blinking cursor. Upon trying to type into the box, the cursor disappears with nothing typed in. It still says .arb. I am no longer able to interact with the GUI by pressing the buttons and must quit XQuartz.

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This issue has also been reported for

• an Apple silicon M2 Max (OSX14.1.1)

[westram]

• what hardware do you use?
• is Rosetta involved?
• does this also happen when key-commands are sent to the -window or to the editor window (e.g. move cursor in editor)?

[westram]

Another reported the same issue:

• OS: MacOS Monterey Version 12.4
• Hardware:!MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021)
  Apple M1 Max
  64 GB
• installed using homebrew

Reinstallation of Rosetta using /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --install-rosetta --agree-to-license fixed the problem temporarily (until next reboot?). (probably just did trigger the same thing as comment:5)

I got no idea what to do from arb side to fix that issue.
Comments or suggestions are very welcome!

[westram]

Possible workaround:

• start terminal in macOS
• in terminal run command xterm
• press STRG+D
• start arb

Alternative workaround:

• start terminal in macOS
• in terminal run command xterm
• in xterm run command arb

[westram]

workaround is reported to help

Analysis of workaround:

• xterm obviously does something that arb does not do.
• that something is performed by xterm only when xterm receives keystrokes.

[guest]

Hi,

Thank you so much for the workarounds. Both of them work to resolve this issue.

[westram]

Replying to guest:

Thank you so much for the workarounds. Both of them work to resolve this issue.

Thanks for the workaround goes to Jan Gerken from the ​SILVA team. Without him the OSX port of arb would no longer exist.