[Users] gentoo/kde-3.3.2

[piotr]

Arend Lammertink wrote:

> 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.

I did run in different wm and still the same problem

>
> 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
>
I have this config file, change font size stil the same problem

> 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.

I do not have this variable set in my shell it is setup in init_dtect


I installed also version 1.2.1 and no problem to run it at all.

What could be wrong ? :-(

Regards
Piotr