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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sat Oct 30 2010 - 10:58:17 CDT

andrew,

this is a wild stab, but can you try:

export LC_ALL=C
and then launch vmd?

or even better, try setting this in the vmd launch script
(or equivalently setenv LC_ALL C if your vmd launch script
starts with #!/bin/csh instead of #!/bin/sh)

thanks,
    axel.

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 3:22 AM, Andrew Jewett <jewett.ai_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:28 AM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>> Perhaps the thing to do would be to compile FLTK on your system
>> first and run the demo programs that come with it to be sure there isn't
>> some other odd problem with the new Ubuntu.  If that works, then proceed
>> with compiling VMD and see how it goes.  Let us know if you need help.
>
>
> Thank you!  FLTK appears to be the problem.
> I installed the fltk1.1-games binaries, and the same menu problem
> appears in "FLTK Sudoku".  I tried this on two ubuntu 10.10 computers
> (very different hardware), and saw the same behaviour.  (After VMD, I
> did not have the stamina to attempt compiling FLTK.)
>
> As for compiling vmd on ubunt, it was tricky.  I got most of the the
> way through the build process.  I'm happy to share the last remaining
> compile error I've been having, if anyone is curious.  However, as the
> problem appears to be with FLTK, I think I'll spare you all.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 7:28 AM, John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>> Andrew,
>>  I think that doing a build from source might help you, but I find it
>> odd that the bleeding edge Ubuntu would cause misbehavior of the FLTK
>> windows.  Perhaps the thing to do would be to compile FLTK on your system
>> first and run the demo programs that come with it to be sure there isn't
>> some other odd problem with the new Ubuntu.  If that works, then proceed
>> with compiling VMD and see how it goes.  Let us know if you need help.
>> Cheers,
>>  John Stone
>>  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:42:15AM -0700, Andrew Jewett wrote:
>>> VMD 1.8.7 was working beautifully in ubuntu linux 10.04 (the
>>> gnome-based version).
>>> I decided to upgrade to 10.10.
>>> Alas, now the VMD menus are unresponsive (you can click on them, but
>>> the pull-down list never appears).
>>> I tried re-downloading the VMD binary (64-bit x86_64), and reinstalled
>>> it without any error messages, but the menu problem persists.
>>> Is this just me?  Has anybody else had any luck under ubuntu 10.10?
>>> Thank you in advance.
>>> Andrew
>
> 

-- 
Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer
akohlmey_at_gmail.com  http://goo.gl/1wk0
Institute for Computational Molecular Science
Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.