[Users] gentoo/kde-3.3.2

[Arend Lammertink]

piotr wrote:
> Bert Bril wrote:
> 
>> Hi Piotr,
>>
>>> I just installed OpendTect on my Gentoo machine but unfortunately it 
>>> doesn't work
>>> I had it working on different machines but do not remember libraries 
>>> versions.
>>> Right now I have
>>> kde 3.3.2
>>> qt 3.3.3
>>
>>
>>
>> I think these versions are OK.

I think they're not necesseraly, because we're also using Qt 3.3.3. And 
that might cause conflicts.

We've had problems with Qt before in that it would load plugins from the 
system, even though we do not compile any plugins for Qt. It could be that 
the Qt 3.3.3 on your system conflicts somehow with ours, because that is 
already in memory or some other obscure reason I don't know.

It might be worth to try and launch OpendTect from another window manager 
that is not based on Qt, like gnome or some other lightweight manager and 
at the same time move the Qt plugins (or the complete lib) on your system 
temporary away. On my (Debian) system, these are on /usr/share/qt3/plugins.

Another thing that might be at hand is the font settings. In the $HOME/.od 
directory there should be a "settings" file, where some font sizes are 
defined, like:

Font.def.Control: Helvetica`10`Normal`No
Font.def.Graphics small: helvetica`12`Bold`No
Font.def.Graphics medium: helvetica`14`Bold`No
Font.def.Graphics large: helvetica`18`Bold`No

Since the size of widgets like buttons, etc. is defined in terms of x 
times the font width/height, that might cause strange sizes for OpendTect 
windows.

A third problem I can think of is that somehow it can't find the png icon 
files that should be in the "data" subdirectory of OpendTect. OpendTect 
locates these icons by looking at the "DTECT_APPL" environment variable. 
This should point to the OpendTect installation directory, and then you 
can find the png files in the subdirectory "data".
Normally, DTECT_APPL is set from the start_dtect script, but if you have 
already set it in your shell, then things might go wrong.


Hope this helps,


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