[Ifeffit] ATHENA on Ubuntu

Andi Idhil a.idhil at gmail.com
Wed Jan 27 14:40:50 CST 2010


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 <bravel at bnl.gov> wrote:

>
> 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 at bnl.gov
>
>  National Institute of Standards and Technology
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