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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 30 2008 - 02:13:11 CDT

Hi,
  Do you have internationalized input methods enabled on your machine?
(I'm thinking of things like SCIM in particular...)
I haven't ever personally seen the kind of behavior you're describing
with the main VMD windows, but several users have encountered a problem
like this with Tk windows caused by SCIM. I'm just wondering if this
might possibly be the same kind of problem or not. Do you get any
warning messages in the VMD text console when you encounter these
problems?

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:52:24PM -0800, Piotr Cieplak wrote:
> Dear All
> I am having problems with proper installation and running VMD (it is the
> most recent version 1.8.6) on my new linux machine, which is: Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux Client release 5 (Tikanga).
> After following all the installation steps and loading VMD - I cannot
> manipulate the pull down menu and other controls, such as zoom, step,
> speed in the VMD-Main control panel. After changing one of the
> parameters, let's say "speed" checkbox, and trying to switch to another
> one, those other controls stalled. Cannot be modified.
>
> When I installed VMD1.8.6 on the other computer (Red Hat Enterprise
> Linux WS release 3 (Taroon)) - everything works fine.
>
> Can anyone tell me what could possibly be wrong with my installation?
> Could it be related to some graphics libraries, graphics incompatibility
> setup on my linux machine or something else?
>
> Thanks for any help
> Piotr Cieplak
>
> 

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