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FNankivell
Inspiring
January 31, 2020
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Screen drawing bug ID 2020 and Catalina

  • January 31, 2020
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Since upgrading to Catalina (10.15.3), InDesign 2020 (15.0.1.209) is having all sorts of trouble drawing the screen correctly – blank pages, scrolling through a document doesn't change what is seen on screen, boxes being moved turn grey and remain grey even after being deselected, screen refresh takes 20-30 seconds after zoom in or out, etc. Disabling GPU in preferences only helps with the blank pages bug, but nothing else. Same version of ID worked just fine on Mojave.

 

I have a late-2013 27" iMac quad-core i7 3,5 GHz with 32GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M with 4GB of VRAM. This setup worked perfectly with Mojave and performance was still snappy and responsive. In ID's GPU prefs, this video card is recognized as compatible. (Version : 4.1 NVIDIA-14.0.31 355.11.11.10.10.143)

 

Oddly enough, I discovered by accident that by entering this command in Terminal, the bug is fixed and makes ID behave like on Mojave:

 

defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes

 

Is my problem specifc to the NVIDIA GPU or are any of you having similar problems with other GPUs?

 

Thank you!

 

 

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Correct answer FNankivell

Back on Mojave, I did the trick described here to have dark mode on the menubar and dock only:

 

https://www.techjunkie.com/only-dark-menu-bar-dock-mojave/

 

After ugrading to Catalina, I noticed that when in dark mode the Finder and other apps where still showing in light mode. I  remembered that old trick described above and reverted the hack. But wouldn't you know it, right after that InDesign began acting stange and buggy with screen redraw, either with GPU option turned on or off. I reapplied the terminal hack and the happy side effect is that ID was back to normal. A really strange coincidence, but it works for me!

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Konsulenten1
Konsulenten1
Participant
March 23, 2020

Hi. Just a word of advice. I had some troubles with buggy screen redraw in both InDesign and Bridge on my new MacBook Pro with Catalina. Tried this "Dark Mode trick", but it just got worse. 
I had to remove this function all together to solve the screen redraw bugs: "defaults delete -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance" 
Now everything works as supposed.  

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FNankivellAuthor
Inspiring
March 23, 2020

I'm sorry that it didn't work for you. As I said, maybe it depends on what graphics card you have. For me, it's the only thing that worked.

 

Glad to know everything now works on your end!

Frans v.d. Geest
Community Expert
Frans v.d. GeestCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 31, 2020

>defaults write -g NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool Yes

Enlighten us, where did you find this and what is it supposed to do?

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FNankivellAuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
January 31, 2020

Back on Mojave, I did the trick described here to have dark mode on the menubar and dock only:

 

https://www.techjunkie.com/only-dark-menu-bar-dock-mojave/

 

After ugrading to Catalina, I noticed that when in dark mode the Finder and other apps where still showing in light mode. I  remembered that old trick described above and reverted the hack. But wouldn't you know it, right after that InDesign began acting stange and buggy with screen redraw, either with GPU option turned on or off. I reapplied the terminal hack and the happy side effect is that ID was back to normal. A really strange coincidence, but it works for me!

Steve Werner
Community Expert
Steve WernerCommunity Expert
Community Expert
January 31, 2020

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FNankivellAuthor
Inspiring
January 31, 2020

I already tried that, didn't work. Even trashed preferences and caches, nothing helped...

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