[Paraview] macbook paraview problem

[Ken Mankoff]

If I launch the Kitware build of paraview the way you describe, I have
similar behavior, but a simple click on Paraview or CMD+TAB brings it to
the foreground. But if I launch it with "open /path/to/paraview.app" (or
a double-click on the App icon) then it opens in the foreground. Does
that help?

  -k.

On 2014-05-12 at 06:26, Biddiscombe, John A. <biddisco at cscs.ch> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have not used paraview much on a macbook until today - I'm having problems because after I have finished compiling paraview or some custom plugins, I run it by executing
> /Users/biddisco/build/pv4/bin/paraview.app/Contents/MacOS/paraview &
> from a terminal window, but although paraview appears and runs fine, the menu bar frequently does not appear and the terminal window menu stays at the top of the screen
> This makes paraview essentially useless as I can't create any sources, add filters etc etc.
>
> Sometimes I can make it appear by minimizing the terminal and moving focus back to paraview (But that is quite annoying)
>
> Is there some key magic step that is required for applications to make the menus appear on macs (or just an easier way)?
>
> thanks
>
> JB