Dear All, I ve installed ifeffit on my ubuntu desktop. I try to load it and apparently faster than in my windows desktop. The problem is, when i have selected the EXAFS data file in athena data column, i could not find the OK button in the lower left part of the window so i could not continue to work. Does anybody have solution for this ? Thank you very much Andi Villigen
Hi Andi, This is a common problem. I wish I had a really good solution to this problem, but I don't. Fortunately, I have an annoying but functional solution. The problem has to do with how fonts are handled in the graphics toolkit I use to make Athena. The solution is to tell Athena to use smaller fonts. Unfortunately, there is not a way to change the fonts using Athena's preferences dialog. instead, you have to edit Athena's configuration file by hand. The following is a unix specific solution. The answer to the similar problem on Windows is much the same, but the locations of files on disk are different. In the directoy $HOME/.horea you will find a file called "athenarc". Open that file in a text editor (not a word processor -- use a text editor, gedit or kedit will work just fine if you don't have a favorite). Scroll all the way to the bottom of the file where you will find a section of parameters under the heading [fonts]. Each parameter will have a number associated with it, which is a font size. Make each number 1 or two smaller. That is, change [fonts] smbold=Helvetica 10 bold tiny=Helvetica 8 normal med=Helvetica 12 normal medit=Helvetica 12 italic bold=Helvetica 12 bold boldit=Helvetica 12 bold italic large=Helvetica 14 normal fixed=Courier 12 entry=Courier 10 entrybold=Courier 10 bold small=Helvetica 10 normal to [fonts] smbold=Helvetica 9 bold tiny=Helvetica 7 normal med=Helvetica 11 normal medit=Helvetica 11 italic bold=Helvetica 11 bold boldit=Helvetica 11 bold italic large=Helvetica 13 normal fixed=Courier 11 entry=Courier 9 entrybold=Courier 9 bold small=Helvetica 9 normal Restart Athena. If you can now see the buttons in the column selection dialog, yay! You're done. If it still looks bad, make all the numbers smaller and restart Athena until it looks ok on your screen. You have to restart Athena, the changes you make willnot take effect until you do so. As I said, this is a lousy solution. I wish it worked better than this, but hopefully this solution is not too cumbersome. B On Wednesday 27 January 2010 01:12:16 pm Andi Idhil wrote:
Dear All,
I ve installed ifeffit on my ubuntu desktop. I try to load it and apparently faster than in my windows desktop. The problem is, when i have selected the EXAFS data file in athena data column, i could not find the OK button in the lower left part of the window so i could not continue to work. Does anybody have solution for this ?
Thank you very much Andi
Villigen
-- Bruce Ravel ------------------------------------ bravel@bnl.gov National Institute of Standards and Technology Synchrotron Methods Group at NSLS --- Beamlines U7A, X24A, X23A2 Building 535A Upton NY, 11973 My homepage: http://xafs.org/BruceRavel EXAFS software: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/
Hallo Bruce,
No problem, I will try it ...
Thank you so much for the instruction ...
Gruess
Andi
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:47 PM, Bruce Ravel
Hi Andi,
This is a common problem. I wish I had a really good solution to this problem, but I don't. Fortunately, I have an annoying but functional solution.
The problem has to do with how fonts are handled in the graphics toolkit I use to make Athena. The solution is to tell Athena to use smaller fonts. Unfortunately, there is not a way to change the fonts using Athena's preferences dialog. instead, you have to edit Athena's configuration file by hand.
The following is a unix specific solution. The answer to the similar problem on Windows is much the same, but the locations of files on disk are different.
In the directoy $HOME/.horea you will find a file called "athenarc". Open that file in a text editor (not a word processor -- use a text editor, gedit or kedit will work just fine if you don't have a favorite). Scroll all the way to the bottom of the file where you will find a section of parameters under the heading [fonts].
Each parameter will have a number associated with it, which is a font size. Make each number 1 or two smaller. That is, change
[fonts] smbold=Helvetica 10 bold tiny=Helvetica 8 normal med=Helvetica 12 normal medit=Helvetica 12 italic bold=Helvetica 12 bold boldit=Helvetica 12 bold italic large=Helvetica 14 normal fixed=Courier 12 entry=Courier 10 entrybold=Courier 10 bold small=Helvetica 10 normal
to
[fonts] smbold=Helvetica 9 bold tiny=Helvetica 7 normal med=Helvetica 11 normal medit=Helvetica 11 italic bold=Helvetica 11 bold boldit=Helvetica 11 bold italic large=Helvetica 13 normal fixed=Courier 11 entry=Courier 9 entrybold=Courier 9 bold small=Helvetica 9 normal
Restart Athena. If you can now see the buttons in the column selection dialog, yay! You're done. If it still looks bad, make all the numbers smaller and restart Athena until it looks ok on your screen. You have to restart Athena, the changes you make willnot take effect until you do so.
As I said, this is a lousy solution. I wish it worked better than this, but hopefully this solution is not too cumbersome.
B
On Wednesday 27 January 2010 01:12:16 pm Andi Idhil wrote:
Dear All,
I ve installed ifeffit on my ubuntu desktop. I try to load it and apparently faster than in my windows desktop. The problem is, when i have selected the EXAFS data file in athena data column, i could not find the OK button in the lower left part of the window so i could not continue to work. Does anybody have solution for this ?
Thank you very much Andi
Villigen
--
Bruce Ravel ------------------------------------ bravel@bnl.gov
National Institute of Standards and Technology Synchrotron Methods Group at NSLS --- Beamlines U7A, X24A, X23A2 Building 535A Upton NY, 11973
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