Hiko, You can try the development version of caret, 5.611, from http://brainvis.wustl.edu/wiki/index.php/Caret:Download . It uses QT 4.4.1.
My only other suggestion, to you and others, is do not use Linux. You might visit the pro-Linux website, http://www.whylinuxsucks.org/. John Harwell On Jul 8, 2009, at 12:37 PM, HIKO Y. Yu wrote: > > Are you using a non-English character set on your computer? If so, > try switching to the English character set and see if that helps. > > Run "caret5 -help". There is a "-style" option. Try starting caret5 > with each of the styles to see if one of them helps. > > Linux user of Caret have had problems with the FreeType library (which > is used for rending text by QT) in the past. Is your computer up to > date with patches? > > John > > > Dear John and lists > > I am actually using English character set as default. > This is what my `locale` looks like: > LANG=en_US.UTF-8 > LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" > LC_ALL= > The "-style" option doesn't make things better either. > The version to my freetype package is > "freetype-1.3.1-1392.4" (OpenSUSE 11.1). > It's the latest version I can get. > Interestingly, I noticed that Caret5 is using Qt 4.1 and seems to be > static-linked. > My system use Qt 4.5.1 which does not exhibit truncation of texts as > those in Caret. > It seems unlikely to make Qt dynamically linked in Caret unless I > rebuild it, but I made efforts on it and there's lots of technical > difficulties such as undefined symbols like "vtkPatented"... > > Hiko > > > > > > Message: 3 > > Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:16:50 -0500 (CDT) > > From: Donna Dierker <do...@brainvis.wustl.edu> > > Subject: Re: [caret-users] Caret GUI menu items were truncated > (linux > > pre-built version) > > To: "Caret, SureFit, and SuMS software users" > > <caret-users@brainvis.wustl.edu> > > Message-ID: > > <50425.68.94.88.238.1246069010.squir...@brainvis.wustl.edu> > > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > > > > Enter "caret5 -help" at the command line. There is an option like > > --Cleanlooks or something like that that makes me happy with Caret > > on my > > Linux desktop. Give it a shot. > > > > If it makes you happy, too, consider aliasing "caret" to "caret5 > > --Cleanlooks" (or whatever the option actually is). I'm not at a > > computer > > that has Caret installed. Shocking, I know. > > Thanks a lot for the information > > > > I gave it a try on the command-line option > > That did a great improvement on the layout style but the problem is > > still there > > Maybe a picture can make my point more straightforward: > > http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/6825/rect3170.png > > Red dotted-boxes show where those truncated items are. > > Apparently, changing GUI style cannot alleviate the problem. > > > > > > > Dear Caret experts > > > > > > I tried Caret versions of 5.61 and 5.611 on my linux PC (OpenSUSE > > 11.1 > > > 64-bit edition). > > > They got the same problem that makes items on menubar truncated. > > > For example, the 3rd item under the "Surface" menu now looks like > > "Convert > > > Main Window Surface to Segmenta". > > > Even though Caret GUI layout is controlled by Qt but there is no > > way to > > > change its layout style with qtconfig. > > > This is quite annoying and prevents me from knowing what a > button's > > > function > > > is by reading the text on it. > > > > > > Does anyone know how to fix it? > _______________________________________________ > caret-users mailing list > caret-users@brainvis.wustl.edu > http://brainvis.wustl.edu/mailman/listinfo/caret-users _______________________________________________ caret-users mailing list caret-users@brainvis.wustl.edu http://brainvis.wustl.edu/mailman/listinfo/caret-users
