[GRASS5] [bug #1809] (grass) NVIZ top2 window doesnt resize

this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=1809
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Subject: NVIZ top2 window doesnt resize

Platform: GNU/Linux/i386
grass obtained from: Trento Italy site
grass binary for platform: Downloaded precompiled Binaries
GRASS Version: 5.0.2

System Gnu-Linux Redhat 8.0

Trying to use NVIZ, for instance with Spearfish el=elevation.dem from within
Tcltk-gui.

NVIZ starts normally, it opens all windows i.e. nviz I/O, NVIZ (with the
grided raster file) and top2. But top2 is closed and I can either resize not
rescale, so that I have no access to the panel. I would like to send you a
snapshot.
Any idea?
Pedro Martinez

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Request Tracker wrote:
I can just confirm that I had this problem too with RedHat8 and KDE.
It was rather random, sometimes it would open top2 but it would get
stuck
with other pannels. I thought that is a problem with my installation.
So I switched to gnome and it works OK there. I used nviz from command
line.
I can try it again - the top2 pannel should be re-sizeable, but for some
reason
it is not.

Helena
  

this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=1809
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Subject: NVIZ top2 window doesnt resize

Platform: GNU/Linux/i386
grass obtained from: Trento Italy site
grass binary for platform: Downloaded precompiled Binaries
GRASS Version: 5.0.2

System Gnu-Linux Redhat 8.0

Trying to use NVIZ, for instance with Spearfish el=elevation.dem from within
Tcltk-gui.

NVIZ starts normally, it opens all windows i.e. nviz I/O, NVIZ (with the
grided raster file) and top2. But top2 is closed and I can either resize not
rescale, so that I have no access to the panel. I would like to send you a
snapshot.
Any idea?
Pedro Martinez

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Bob,

here is the snapshot
http://skagit.meas.ncsu.edu/~helena/grasswork/grassprobl/nviztop2kde.jpg

I am pretty sure that I have a subtle problem with graphics card drive,
Xfree
or whatever else controls windows
- I got a new processor and graphics card for my PC and a RedHat8 update
and there were problems with the driver for my new graphics card
(Nvidia GeForce 4 Ti4200). So I still think that this is my
problem and not GRASS problem - Pedro did you find a solution?
(e.g. by using gnome? or finding other possible fix?)

You can see that the top2 window is opened but it has the wrong size -
I can open the pulldown menus and it even expands and shrinks depending
on what I select but it does not get the vertical size right.
And this does not happen all the time - few times it actually opened
correctly and I was able to use it. However - this is not a problem for
me
because I use gnome anyway, but I was surprised to see that somebody
else got it too. So you are right that the problem is somewhere else
than
in re-sizeability of the top2 window

Helena

Helena,

The top2 panel is created so that it is not re-sizable. The window
manager options for this are set in nviz2.2_script found in
NVIZ2.2/scripts. The lines are:

proc Nv_makeGUI {{BASE .top}} {
     global Nv_ ScriptState src_boot env

     set Nv_(First) 1
     wm geometry . 585x720
     wm minsize . 300 200
     pack [frame $BASE] -side top -fill both -expand y
     toplevel .top2
     wm geometry .top2 "+400+300"
     wm resizable .top2 false false
     set Nv_(height) 720

The line "wm resizable .top2 false false" sets the top2 window to not
allow re-sizing. If this is changed to "true true" it can be re-sized.

However, there is probably more to this problem than just re-sizing. The
window manager in KDE is failing to set the window size correctly. A
screen shot would be helpful (could you forward to Pedro as well).

Thanks in advance for your help.

> Request Tracker wrote:
> I can just confirm that I had this problem too with RedHat8 and KDE.
> It was rather random, sometimes it would open top2 but it would get
> stuck
> with other pannels. I thought that is a problem with my installation.
> So I switched to gnome and it works OK there. I used nviz from command
> line.
> I can try it again - the top2 pannel should be re-sizeable, but for some
> reason
> it is not.
>
> Helena
>
>
>> this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=1809
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Subject: NVIZ top2 window doesnt resize
>>
>> Platform: GNU/Linux/i386
>> grass obtained from: Trento Italy site
>> grass binary for platform: Downloaded precompiled Binaries
>> GRASS Version: 5.0.2
>>
>> System Gnu-Linux Redhat 8.0
>>
>> Trying to use NVIZ, for instance with Spearfish el=elevation.dem from within
>> Tcltk-gui.
>>
>> NVIZ starts normally, it opens all windows i.e. nviz I/O, NVIZ (with the
>> grided raster file) and top2. But top2 is closed and I can either resize not
>> rescale, so that I have no access to the panel. I would like to send you a
>> snapshot.
>> Any idea?
>> Pedro Martinez

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