[xcrysden] A few issues with Xcrysden

[Bo Qiu]

Just a quick update on my previous problems with Xcrysden 1.5,
I tried it on a RHEL6 system (with the help of great university staff) and
now it works like a charm.

Thanks,
Bo

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Bo Qiu <200210qb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Radu,
>
> Thanks a lot for the tips, but sadly it didn't seem to work for me. The
> technical staff maintaining the university cluster pointed out it might
> have something to do with RHEL5 system as things seem to work on RHEL6. I
> feel there is nothing I can do from my side then...
>
> Thanks again,
> Bo
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:31 AM, radu i <radu_download at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Dear Bo,
>>
>> A temporary solution for the second problem - because I experience the
>> same thing on Cygwin with full X11 package installed - is to use your mouse
>> scroll to zoom in/out and your structure will reaper.
>>
>> r
>>
>>   ------------------------------
>> *From:* Bo Qiu <200210qb at gmail.com>
>> *To:* xcrysden at democritos.it
>> *Sent:* Saturday, February 23, 2013 6:53 AM
>> *Subject:* [xcrysden] A few issues with Xcrysden
>>
>> Dear developers,
>>
>> I'm trying to use xcrysden installed on the computer cluster maintained
>> by the university, however, I've met some issues that even the staff cannot
>> help me with, so I'm trying to ask for help here:
>>
>> 1. when I use Xcrysden 1.4.1 to import charge density from quantum
>> espresso output, after loading the XSF, I do Tools -> Data Grid, however,
>> there is no OK button on the bottom of the popped-up DataGrid panel, so
>> there is no way I can proceed from there to make the isosurface of charge
>> density, so I try to switch to 1.5.53
>>
>> 2. when I use Xcrysden 1.5.53, After I opened xcrysden, I can see all the
>> menu, tools panel items and the bottom tool panels. However, the problem is
>> that the actual panel for molecule display is not working -- it feels like
>> it's not refreshing. For instance, if I do File -> Open structure --> Open
>> XSF --> choose file, then all these drop menus and dialogue windows will
>> remain and overlap in the order they showed up and no molecule is displayed
>> in the end. I thought it may be just laggy, but if I leave it there for
>> hours and come back, it is still the same. Interestingly, for 1.4.1, at
>> least I don't have such issue at all. I have attached a screen shot to this
>> email.
>>
>> I used putty for SSH, used Xming for X11 client and the X11 setup works
>> for all of my other programs. The host is a unix computer cluster. The
>> client system is windows 7 and had firewall turned off. I actually tried on
>> several different computers with win 7 and winXP, same observation.
>> Strangely, the cluster staff actually didn't have my observed issues at all
>> when he has exactly the same client setups as I have and he tried all he
>> could but I still couldn't get this working ...
>>
>> Could you please let me know any possible solutions?
>>
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Bo
>>
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