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From: Andrew Jewett (jewett.ai_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sun Oct 31 2010 - 18:55:33 CDT

An update:

It turns out that the menus in vmd DO work,

..however in order to get the list of items to appear, you have to
pull-down after clicking on them.
(IE., you have move the mouse as if you were selecting from a list of
options, even though that list is initially invisible.)
Again, this is the same behaviour with other FLTK programs/games in
ubuntu 10.10, so it is not a VMD bug.
(Reported FLTK bug to launchpad. Hopefully it will be addressed.)

So... VMD does work in ubuntu 10.10,
but some users could be confused by the unfamiliar menu behaviour.
(You must move the mouse downwards after clicking.)

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Axel Kohlmeyer <akohlmey_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> andrew,
> this is a wild stab, but can you try:
> export LC_ALL=C
> and then launch vmd?

Alas, creating this environment variable did not seem to have any effect.

(One more detail: Not all the VMD pull-down menus have been acting
strangely. Right-clicking on one of the list of molecules in the
"VMD Main" window brings up a list of options immediately. Only the
main menus ("File", "Graphics", "Display",...) were misbehaving.)

Cheers!
Andrew

> 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.)
>>
>> 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