problems with ATHENA
Dear all, it seems I have a great problem with athena. As I write "athena" on the terminal to launch the program, it says: :~$ athena bad geometry specifier "15x-204+652+393" at /usr/lib/perl5/Tk/Submethods.pm line 37. :~$ On my desktop, I can see only the pgplot screen (I'm sending a screenshot of what I see), but the athena screen with all commands does not appear. Can someone help-me? I have reinstalled all ifeffit packages, and horae as well, but with no result. Artemis, on the other hand, works well! Thank you. Chiara p.s. I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy gibbon
Hi Chiara, I think I know what happened and I have a few other things to look at if I am wrong. Athena attempts to remember where you last positioned the window and moves there on start up. It does this but writing its size and position to the file "~/.horae/athena.mru". (That's under C:\Program Files\ Ifeffit on Windows.) If you move Athena such that it is half off the screen, then a negative value for one or both of the positions will be saved. When Athena restarts, it attempts to put itself in that off-screen position. I use kubuntu. Apparently kwin (the KDE window manager) is more clever than that and will move the window to a position that is fully visible, overriding the position that Tk (the graphics toolkit used by athena) requested. It would seem that metacity (or whatever GNOME is using for a window manager these days) is not so clever. The work-around is simple. Edit the "~/.horae/athena.mru" file. At the bottom, you will find a section that looks something like this: [geometry] height=695 width=611 x=0 y=89 Simple delete all those lines and fire up Athena again. If that solves the problem, the only solutions are to constantly edit that file by hand or to never leave Athena dangling off the side of the visible desktop. Obviously, what you have seen is a bug and needs to be fixed in the next release. If all of that does not solve the problem, then I am bit stumped. You could try these two commands: xrdb -query and alias athena to see if anything has been done to set X resources for Athena or for Tk processes. Let us know what happens. B
Dear all, it seems I have a great problem with athena. As I write "athena" on the terminal to launch the program, it says:
:~$ athena bad geometry specifier "15x-204+652+393" at /usr/lib/perl5/Tk/Submethods.pm line 37. :~$
On my desktop, I can see only the pgplot screen (I'm sending a screenshot of what I see), but the athena screen with all commands does not appear.
Can someone help-me?
I have reinstalled all ifeffit packages, and horae as well, but with no result. Artemis, on the other hand, works well!
Thank you.
Chiara
p.s. I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy gibbon
-- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- bravel@bnl.gov National Institute of Standards and Technology Synchrotron Methods Group at Brookhaven National Laboratory Building 535A Upton NY, 11973 My homepage: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/
Hi Bruce,
thank you, I've just edited the ~/.horae/athena.mru file as you suggested an
it worked!
many many thanks,
have a good day
Chiara
:-)
On 12/12/2007, Ravel, Bruce
Hi Chiara,
I think I know what happened and I have a few other things to look at if I am wrong.
Athena attempts to remember where you last positioned the window and moves there on start up. It does this but writing its size and position to the file "~/.horae/athena.mru". (That's under C:\Program Files\ Ifeffit on Windows.) If you move Athena such that it is half off the screen, then a negative value for one or both of the positions will be saved. When Athena restarts, it attempts to put itself in that off-screen position.
I use kubuntu. Apparently kwin (the KDE window manager) is more clever than that and will move the window to a position that is fully visible, overriding the position that Tk (the graphics toolkit used by athena) requested. It would seem that metacity (or whatever GNOME is using for a window manager these days) is not so clever.
The work-around is simple. Edit the "~/.horae/athena.mru" file. At the bottom, you will find a section that looks something like this:
[geometry] height=695 width=611 x=0 y=89
Simple delete all those lines and fire up Athena again.
If that solves the problem, the only solutions are to constantly edit that file by hand or to never leave Athena dangling off the side of the visible desktop. Obviously, what you have seen is a bug and needs to be fixed in the next release.
If all of that does not solve the problem, then I am bit stumped. You could try these two commands:
xrdb -query
and
alias athena
to see if anything has been done to set X resources for Athena or for Tk processes.
Let us know what happens.
B
Dear all, it seems I have a great problem with athena. As I write "athena" on the terminal to launch the program, it says:
:~$ athena bad geometry specifier "15x-204+652+393" at /usr/lib/perl5/Tk/Submethods.pm line 37. :~$
On my desktop, I can see only the pgplot screen (I'm sending a screenshot of what I see), but the athena screen with all commands does not appear.
Can someone help-me?
I have reinstalled all ifeffit packages, and horae as well, but with no result. Artemis, on the other hand, works well!
Thank you.
Chiara
p.s. I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy gibbon
-- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- bravel@bnl.gov
National Institute of Standards and Technology Synchrotron Methods Group at Brookhaven National Laboratory Building 535A Upton NY, 11973
My homepage: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/
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Hi Bruce, thank you, I've just edited the ~/.horae/athena.mru file as you suggested an it worked! many many thanks, have a good day
Wonderful! I just implemented a solution to your problem that will show up in the next release. Thanks, B -- Bruce Ravel ----------------------------------- bravel@bnl.gov National Institute of Standards and Technology Synchrotron Methods Group at Brookhaven National Laboratory Building 535A Upton NY, 11973 My homepage: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel EXAFS software: http://cars9.uchicago.edu/~ravel/software/exafs/
Hi Chiara: Did you install horae from the tarball, the packages from Ubuntu (version 064) or the packages from my server (version 066)? That can let us help you better. Just off the top of my head, however, I think that the problem might be in your .horae/athena.mru file which might be corrupted. This contains the last geometry information that you used. Try deleting this file and see if it helps. Carlo On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, chiara wrote:
Dear all, it seems I have a great problem with athena. As I write "athena" on the terminal to launch the program, it says:
:~$ athena bad geometry specifier "15x-204+652+393" at /usr/lib/perl5/Tk/Submethods.pm line 37. :~$
On my desktop, I can see only the pgplot screen (I'm sending a screenshot of what I see), but the athena screen with all commands does not appear.
Can someone help-me?
I have reinstalled all ifeffit packages, and horae as well, but with no result. Artemis, on the other hand, works well!
Thank you.
Chiara
p.s. I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy gibbon
-- Carlo U. Segre -- Professor of Physics Associate Dean for Special Projects, Graduate College Illinois Institute of Technology Voice: 312.567.3498 Fax: 312.567.3494 segre@iit.edu http://www.iit.edu/~segre segre@debian.org
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