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From: Axel Kohlmeyer (akohlmey_at_gmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 20 2010 - 11:42:57 CST

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Dong Luo <us917_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Yes, the X11 composite extension was detected by VMD. I googled and disabled it, then restarted X server. The tcl console problem is not solved. So I upgraded the NVIDIA driver to the latest version 190.53. Problem still remains. Here is the new glxinfo output: http://pastebin.com/m72268a0d
>
> As for the strangelines you mentioned, it now disappeared: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1727104/picture/newTclConsole.jpg.

this looks more like you don't have the proper font installed that tcl expects,
and whatever font renderer is used has trouble with the rescaling. it probably
picked up a bitmap font instead of a scalable font.

could you post the output of the "xlsfonts" command?

cheers,
   axel.

>
> 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: Wed, January 20, 2010 11:24:45 AM
> Subject: Re: vmd-l: bad text display in tk console (ubuntu 8.04 VMD 1.8.7 linux 32 bit)
>
>
> Hi,
>  Do you still have those strange lines going through your window
> title bars etc?  Do you have the X11 composite extension enabled?
> (do you see warnings about it when VMD starts up?)
>
> You might see if updating to a more recent video driver helps your
> problem or not.  You're using a 185.x series driver from what I saw,
> but newer versions are available now.
>
> Cheers,
>  John Stone
>  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 08:17:57AM -0800, Dong Luo wrote:
>> 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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> NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics
> Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
> University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave, Urbana, IL 61801
> Email: johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu                 Phone: 217-244-3349
>  WWW: http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/~johns/      Fax: 217-244-6078
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-- 
Dr. Axel Kohlmeyer    akohlmey_at_gmail.com
Institute for Computational Molecular Science
College of Science and Technology
Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA.