From: Dong Luo (us917_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jan 20 2010 - 10:17:57 CST

Sorry for late reply. Here is the glxinfo output: http://pastebin.com/m419b897
"export LC_ALL=C" suggested by Axel Kohlmeyer is not working here.

Thanks for your help.

Dong

----- Original Message ----
From: John Stone <johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu>
To: Dong Luo <us917_at_yahoo.com>
Cc: vmd-l_at_ks.uiuc.edu
Sent: Fri, January 15, 2010 1:01:17 PM
Subject: Re: vmd-l: bad text display in tk console (ubuntu 8.04 VMD 1.8.7 linux 32 bit)

Hi
  Wow, indeed, that's pretty horrifying. I also notice some odd
looking lines going through the minimize button and the window title bar,
are you using the X composite extension? What video card and driver are
you using? The snapshot you provided looks to me like a malfunctioning
attempt to antialias the displayed font which could be caused by either
the choice of a terrible font (but why would they even install one that
looks so bad?!?!?!), or some kind of windowing system or video driver
problem.

Cheers,
  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 09:30:48AM -0800, Dong Luo wrote:
> The text displayed in tk console is almost unreadable. Here is a snapshot showing what it looks like:
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1727104/picture/VMD_TkConsole.jpg
>
> I've been tried to tweak the system font and searching around, but can't get this solved.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
>
> Dong
>
>
>

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