[gradsusr] display problem with v.2.1.a3

[Semyon Grodsky]

Dear experts,

after updating LINUX to RedHat Enterprise 7, grads v 2.1.a3 starts failing 
to display plots properly. In particular, 2.1.a3 is failing to plot 
contours (merely plotting contour labels).

It seems that this problem is machine dependent and is probably associated 
with the Cairo rendering in X11. If I log into the same machine, but from 
windows laptop (XMing), grads works fine.

Is there any cure for that?

Thanks,
--Senya
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  q config
Config: v2.1.a3 little-endian readline grib2 netcdf hdf4-sds hdf5 
opendap-grids,stn geotiff shapefile cairo
Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 2.1.a3
Copyright (C) 1988-2015 by the Institute for Global Environment and 
Society (IGES)
This program is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY
See file COPYRIGHT for more information.

Built Tue Mar 10 12:20:42 EDT 2015 for x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu

This version of GrADS has been configured with the following options:
   o Built on a LITTLE ENDIAN machine
   o Athena Widget GUI DISABLED
   o Command line editing ENABLED
       http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html
   o GRIB2 interface ENABLED
       http://www.ijg.org
       http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper
       http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/codes/GRIB2
       g2clib-1.4.0
   o NetCDF interface ENABLED
       http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf
       netcdf 4.3.3 of Mar 10 2015 11:30:12 $
   o OPeNDAP gridded data interface ENABLED
   o OPeNDAP station data interface ENABLED
       http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/supplibs.html
       libgadap 2.0
   o HDF4 and HDF5 interfaces ENABLED
       http://hdfgroup.org
       HDF 4.2r3
       HDF5 1.8.12
   o GeoTIFF and KML/TIFF output ENABLED
       http://www.libtiff.org
       http://geotiff.osgeo.org
   o KML contour output ENABLED
   o Shapefile interface ENABLED
       http://shapelib.maptools.org
   o Cairo graphics interface ENABLED
       http://cairographics.org
       http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pixman
       http://www.freetype.org/index2.html
       http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fontconfig
       Cairo 1.12.16
       Pixman 0.28.0
       Freetype 2.4.10
       Fontconfig 2.9.0

For additional information please consult http://iges.org/grads



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Semyon Grodsky
Computer and Space Science Building (Bldg. #224), Room 2409
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Science
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

Phone:  301-405-5330
Fax:    301-314-9482
E-mail: senya at atmos.umd.edu