Fedora/Install help

Mateus Teixeira mtex2k3 at YAHOO.COM.BR
Thu Nov 24 08:55:02 EST 2005


Thanks for the help!
That works fine, except for when one maximizes the graphic window, but
as Tennant says, that's correct for 90% of circumstances.

Regards,

Mateus

Warren Tennant a écrit :

> The solution offered earlier by Pat is the correct one in 90%+
> circumstances. "xorg.conf" is usually located in /etc/X11 or something
> linking to that position. I have used it on all my Fedora/RedHat
> machines. You must of course be root to do this.
>
> ************
>
> You should enable the BackingStore capability of your X server if you
> want
> to avoid that windows on top of the grads window erase the grads window
> content. With xorg, you should put the following in the Device section of
> xorg.conf:
>
>        Option      "BackingStore" "True"
>
> With this option, xorg will use more CPU.
>
>
> --
> PAt
>
> *************
>
>
> Regards
> Warren
>
> Mateus Teixeira wrote:
>
>> Bob,
>>
>> Do you try to diminish the terminal window when you work in Fedora?
>>
>> Try to put terminal and GrADS graphic windows without superpose them.
>> I'm using Fedora 2 and whenever some window appear above the GrADS
>> graphic window, this windows losts some part of the graphic. When I
>> choose to maximize GrADS graphic window the entire graphic disappear.
>> The graphics back to normal as soon as you press the ENTER key in
>> terminal window.
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Mateus.
>>
>> bhatt vihang a écrit :
>>
>>> have you properly set environment variables GADDIR AND
>>> GASCRP.
>>>
>>> only tarball of grads is not sufficient to run grads.
>>> you also need grads data and script tarball also and
>>> properly installed and defined before you start grads.
>>> hope this will resolve your problem
>>>
>>> regards,
>>>
>>> vihang bhatt
>>>
>>> --- Grads Bob <gradshelp at ROGERS.COM> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I decided to give it another shot installing GrADS
>>>> on my PC. This time, I now have a dual boot setup.
>>>> With Windoze 2000 and also Fedora core 3.
>>>>
>>>> I have downloaded the linux binaries, and dropped
>>>> them into the correct directories. Quickly run
>>>> through the tutorial and tried plotting the demo
>>>> (model.ctl) download.
>>>>
>>>> Model.ctl opens up fine, but when I try and display
>>>> anything, the display window shows only a small
>>>> percentage of the plotted chart on the left, the
>>>> rest is black. If I open the window to full size,
>>>> then everything in the window dissapears. Same if I
>>>> plot anything with a full
>>>> size window, I get nothing but an empty window.
>>>>
>>>> Not sure why, but this could be something missing
>>>> from my Fedora install?
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Bob.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Vihang Bhatt
>>> Project Scientist
>>> Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi
>>> Hauz Khas
>>> New Delhi
>>> web: http://www.geocities.com/vihang_75/index.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
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