On 2016-12-16 00:26-0000 Phil Rosenberg wrote: > Unfortunately I don't think I have enough space to install virtualbox. > I presume I need a few 10s of GB for an Ubuntu install? > > I have also just tried on the Bash on Ubuntu on Windows (still trying > to decide if I like this or Cygwin best. Anyway...). Again everything > works fine on this (I'm using Xming for my X server). > > Is there something different with the X server or something in a > VirtualBox install?
Yes, the X server is different for VirtualBox. For example, my understanding is they have implemented their own X device when Linux is the host, and presumably something different again when Windows is the host (as in Pedro's case). (By chance I happen to know this bit of arcane knowledge from my couple of years of lurking on the Intel X driver list in an attempt to help me figure out some glitches in how the Intel Linux X driver was working for my Intel video chip.) > I suspect that you are correct Alan and this is a subtle VitualBox > thing. We should create a minimum working example of a wxFrame using > the two stage creation totally independent of plplot and see if this > works. If it doesn't then we know this is a VirtualBox/wxWidgets bug. > If it does then we can start adding complexity to find where it > breaks. If you could implement that great idea for looking at this issue deeper, it would be great. Note I plan to merge Pedro's fix (once he gets it to me in format-patch form) and let it ride for the release or until you can figure this out if that happens before the release. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
