It is not a Ubuntu problem. I have the same issue on my laptop, and
it's because it has Intel onboard graphics chip. With NVIDIA cards (at
least on all the desktops I've seen), coot runs fine when you enable
compiz (of course, I do use proprietary nvidia drivers).
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 14:34 +1200, Shaun Lott wrote:
> Hi Stephen
>
> On the money - thanks!
>
> Running GNOME as the desktop environment, doing exactly as you suggest
> fixes the problem. GNOME was having other stability issues also, which
> caused some student frustration.
>
> Alternatively, using Xfce as the desktop environment worked right off
> the bat.
>
> I also tried KDE, and if anything it was worse than GNOME, plus I
> couldn't find where to disable Compiz.
>
> Hope this helps anyone else who may have struggled with this issue.
>
> cheers
>
> Shaun
>
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> On 11 May 2009, at 17:51, Stephen Graham wrote:
>
> > Hi Shaun,
> >
> > Have you tried turning off compiz?
> > (System > Preferences > Appearance > Visual Effects: Select 'None')
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Stephen
> >
> > On 11/05/2009, Shaun Lott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> Apologies if this problem has been dealt with elsewhere - I scanned
> >> the
> >> archives but couldn't see anything that looked similar.
> >>
> >> I'm about to use Coot as part of a graduate teaching exercise.
> >> Version 0.52
> >> starts ok, and can load co-ords and maps, but whenever one clicks,
> >> the
> >> screen gets corrupted - see attached image. You can get a normal
> >> view back
> >> by rotating the molecule, but the whole user experience is a pretty
> >> frustrating one, as it is pretty much impossible to click on
> >> anything. The
> >> fault seems to be hardware and Coot version independent - it
> >> manifests in
> >> 0.5.2 and also using
> >> 0.6-pre-1-revision-1997-binary-Linux-i686-ubuntu-8.04.2, though less
> >> dramatically in the latter - just a grey screen rather than the
> >> corrupted
> >> one. The same thing occurs when using a Dell or an iMac running
> >> Ubuntu
> >> (don't ask...)
> >>
> >> So I'm guessing it's a(n) Ubuntu thing. The machine are running the
> >> same
> >> versrion of EdUbuntu 8.10, details as below.
> >>
> >> Has anyone else seen this? Does anyone have a fix?
> >>
> >> cheers
> >>
> >> Shaun
> >>
> >>> cat /proc/version
> >> Linux version 2.6.27-7-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.2
> >> (Ubuntu
> >> 4.3.2-1ubuntu11) ) #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:20 UTC 2008
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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