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From: Andrew Jewett (jewett.ai_at_gmail.com)
Date: Sat Oct 30 2010 - 02:22:06 CDT

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