When I went to System->Preferences->Appearance none of the options was
checked (?)
I checked None effect and notice a better management of the mouse to
resize the feature detail panel at the bottom of the main Apollo window.
Actually that seems better.
Thanks for this,
Marie-Josée
Josh Goodman wrote:
Hi Marie-Josée,
Gnome is a desktop manager. Compiz is a window manager. The two things work
together to bring you
a usable interface. Usually the default window manager used with Gnome is
Metacity but in Ubuntu
7.10 they changed it to Compiz by default. Can you go into
System->Preferences->Appearance and look
under the Visual Effects tab? Does it show any effects enabled? If it does
you might try turning
off the effects, unsetting the AWT_TOOLKIT environment variable, and then
trying to use Apollo again.
Josh
Marie-Josee Cros wrote:
Hi,
I am using GNOME 2.20.1.
The problems (the ones I noticed) was:
- when asking to maximize the window, the extra place was ligth gray,
- when opening a new window in the application it was empty with the
background color requested (I think one a the window was light yellow).
The explanation I found was that running Apollo with SUN java it was
necessary to use MToolkit.
Extract from
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/awt/1.5/xawt.html :
Starting with release J2SE^TM 5.0, AWT has been re-implemented on
the Solaris and Linux platforms. The new Toolkit implementation
provides the following advantages:
* Removes the dependency on Motif and Xt libraries.
* Interoperates better with other GUI Toolkits.
* Provides better performance and quality.
The new Toolkit (XToolkit) is the default on Linux in J2SE 5.0.
Solaris will continue to use the MToolkit (Motif-based Toolkit) as
the default in J2SE 5.0, but eventually will be replaced with XToolkit.
Cheers,
Marie-Josée
Josh Goodman wrote:
Hi Marie-Josee,
Out of curiosity are you also running the Compiz window manager? It is my
understanding that this
is the default in Ubuntu 7.10, but I don't have an installation available to
check this. If you
are, the root of your problem could be a conflict between Java and Compiz, some
of which is detailed
here http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6632124.
This problem manifests itself as empty/grey dialog boxes when opening new
windows. Is this what you
were seeing? I have not tested Apollo under Compiz but other java apps I used
exhibited this
problem. In my case setting the environment as you did fixed some problems but
not all.
Cheers,
Josh
Marie-Josee Cros wrote:
hello,
I had some display problems with Apollo 1.7.1 on ubuntu 7.10 for
maximizing a window, displaying the annotation information window ...
Setting the environment variable AWT_TOOLKIT to MToolkit resolves them.
(I put the command 'setenv AWT_TOOLKIT MToolkit' in the user .tcsh file)
Hope it could help someone else,
Marie-Josée Cros
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