| Re: Issues with IDL 5.6 OS X and OroborOSX-v0.8 beta 2 [message #33076] |
Fri, 06 December 2002 09:43  |
K. Bowman
Messages: 330
Registered: May 2000
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In article <BA160B23.319B%ed.wright@jpl.nasa.gov>,
Ed Wright <ed.wright@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote:
We had problems with OroborosX also. In our student lab, where we do
not need anything beyond plain graphics windows, the solution is to not
use OroborosX. Just start XDarwin and use the default window manager
(twm). You can customize the start up with a .xinitrc file (sample
below). You need to keep the login xterm for XDarwin to run correctly.
After it starts, just minimize that window.
On a few machines where we can justify it, we use the commercial
X-windows product eXodus. It has worked flawlessly with IDL. You need
to install XDarwin if you use eXodus. Apparently IDL needs some of the
X libraries that come with XDarwin.
Ken Bowman
#!/bin/sh
# $XConsortium: xinitrc.cpp,v 1.4 91/08/22 11:41:34 rws Exp $
userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap
# merge in defaults and keymaps
if [ -f $sysresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $sysresources
fi
if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi
if [ -f $userresources ]; then
xrdb -merge $userresources
fi
if [ -f $usermodmap ]; then
xmodmap $usermodmap
fi
# start some nice programs
twm &
#xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
#xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
#xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
exec xterm -geometry 80x20+0+0 -name login
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| Re: Issues with IDL 5.6 OS X and OroborOSX-v0.8 beta 2 [message #33166 is a reply to message #33076] |
Sat, 07 December 2002 02:47  |
adrian
Messages: 2
Registered: December 2002
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Hi all,
The OroborOSX crash with IDL (and gnuplot and several others) is well
known and documented in the OroborOSX Help forum:
http://sf.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=758043&forum_id= 142721
You will find links to a discussion about the problem, a patch, and
instructions how to install it in the above message.
(BTW, if you want to keep up with the latest info, it's probably worth
subscribing to the OroborOSX-Announce forum -it's low traffic, at
roughly one or two mails per month. -I recently made public a second
test version of v0.8b3, so let me know if you want to try that...)
Bye!
Adrian
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