Hi Ben,

As you note, the particular version and configuration of X11 is
an obvious potential source of differences in behavior from one
system to the next.

In addition to this, the specific desktop environment in use
(such as Gnome vs KDE) can have a big impact too. The different
desktop environments handle color maps differently, and may actually use
different engines for rendering fonts. So, seemingly trivial
command-line adjustments like the ones you note below, which change
window background colors and default fonts, could have a larger impact
than expected.

So, my first suggestion would be to try an alternative desktop environment.

Let us know what you find ...

Cheerful Regards,

f



Quoting Ben Eisenbraun <bene@...>:

>
> Howdy Frank et al,
>
> I updated our installation of NMRPipe to the June 2009 release last week,
> and I'm seeing an odd issue on some of our machines.
>
> Using the default nmrDraw script, the interface window will pop up and none
> of the interface elements will be clickable/adjustable. None of the menus,
> buttons, sliders, etc, work.
>
> Here's the default command line:
>
> nmrdraw.exe \
> -default scrollbar.repeatDelay 999 -position 0 0 -Wfsdb \
> -fg black -bg gray30 -scale small \
> $argv \
> -xAdj 3 -yAdj 30 \
> -frp 1 -peak -nozfht -text $NMRTXT -func proc.tab -nosvri -XOR always \
> -lw1d 1 -labMode overlay -file "*.fid *.ft* *.lp *.dat *.DAT" \
> -useTitle -nogrid -read -draw -zero -cursor -vert -clear $INARG
>
> If I remove either of the '-fg black -bg gray30' or the '-scale small'
> arguments from the command line, the interface works normally.
>
> Does this ring any bells for any one? I have seen TCL errors when the X
> server had a wrong RGBPath, but that's not the culprit here. The machines
> that seem to be having the problems are Red Hat 5 64-bit workstations. I
> have a handful of Fedora machines, both 32 and 64 bit, that seem to work
> fine. All the machines have Nvidia graphics cards and are using the
> proprietary driver. There must be some difference in the X configuration,
> but I can't figure out what it is.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -ben
>
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