I am a long time user of SketchUp Pro and I have noticed an issue that I have not been able to correct since it has come out.
The issue I am having is that if I have been working with SU for more than a half hour my Yosemite desktop gets all messed up. For instance, I have my dock set to auto-hide. After I have been working for a while I have to click on the area where the dock is to show me the dock. I also have to click on each expanding command or dialogue box. I am running a clean system that is well maintained and cannot for the life of me figure out what is going on. This is the only software I am having issues with.
Anyone have any ideas??? I am open to try anything…
Check your installed extensions, disable all, restart. Preferences->Extensions uncheck all. There’s command line flag you can disable ruby, if you still aren’t sure.
Keyboard shortcuts, check System Preferences->Keyboard->Shortcuts. On Yosemite, Dock hiding is option-cmd-D.
I’m nowhere close to an expert, but I’d advise against wiping your system. I just did that with a Windows machine due to a problem with Sketchup. My PC is also very solid. The only problem was Sketchup. The whole thing was a pain and I ended up with the same problem I started with.
I’m also on Yosemite and SU 2015 and have never seen this happen no matter how long SU has been running. So, the conclusion is that it is something specific to your system…but what?
I agree with @iamdegman that a system reinstall is the absolute last resort (or maybe the first resort of the incompetent )!
Had you installed any new plugins or extensions shortly before this started to happen? If so, try removing those. On the other hand, did you get fresh 2015-tested versions of all your plugins/extensions, or copy them from a prior version? Barry is right: plugins can have strange effects that you would have thought impossible.
First, I’d go into System Preferences->Shortcuts, and assign Dock hide/show to some very uniquely weird key combination, and see if it goes away.
There’s some developer things you can do to see what’s going on. Check on your machine first if it has the command “opensnoop”, or just type “man opensnoop” for the manual/instructions to it, in Terminal. It’s built on top of DTrace. If it’s there, use it. If not, you can download developer tools ( > 1 GB Xcode download, so re-install might be easier), and if you do
sudo opensnoop -n SketchUp
and enter your password, then launch SketchUp, you’ll see every file that SketchUp touches. Somewhere, it’s gotta be touching your preferences for Dock, which would be weird and unique to you, because we’ve never seen it.
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