[xcrysden] Xcrysden not opening with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Suraj P surajp at iitkgp.ac.in
Fri Jul 19 16:20:17 CEST 2024


Dear Tone,
I have uncommented and saved it as told by you. However the issue is still persisting. Kindly can you suggest me some other method or if you could share here a workable xcrysden package (via link) it would be greatly helpful for me.
Thanks in advance
Suraj

----- Original Message -----
From: "Suraj" <surajp at iitkgp.ac.in>
To: "xcrysden" <xcrysden at democritos.it>
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2024 11:07:04 AM
Subject: Xcrysden not opening with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Dear xcrysden users,
I have installed xcrysden 1.6.2 in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. However its not opening and the message that came in the terminal is as attached below. Kindly help me in trouble shooting this problem.

Thanks regards
Suraj 
Research student, IIT Kharagpur
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$ xcrysden

+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
|*****************************************************************|
|*                                                               *|
|*  XCrySDen -- (X-Window) CRYstalline Structures and DENsities  *|
|*               =         ===         =              ===        *|
|*---------------------------------------------------------------*|
|*                                                               *|
|*    Anton Kokalj (tone.kokalj at ijs.si)                          *|
|*    Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia                *|
|*                                                               *|
|*    Copyright (c) 1996--2019 by Anton Kokalj                   *|
|*                                                               *|
|*****************************************************************|
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+

  Version: 1.6.2

  Please report bugs to: tone.kokalj at ijs.si


  TERMS OF USE:
  -------------
  XCRYSDEN is released under the GNU General Public License.

  Whenever graphics generated by XCRYSDEN are used in scientific
  publications, it shall be greatly appreciated to include an explicit
  reference. The preferred form is the following:

  [ref] A. Kokalj, J. Mol. Graph. Model., Vol. 17, pp. 176-179, 1999.
        Code available from http://www.xcrysden.org/.

XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR=/usr/share/xcrysden
XCRYSDEN_SCRATCH=/tmp

Running on platform : unix
   Operating system : Linux
Package ImageMagick's convert: /usr/bin/convert
Package ImageMagick's import: /usr/bin/import
Package Ppmtompeg: /usr/bin/ppmtompeg
Package Xwd: /usr/bin/xwd
Executing: /usr/lib/xcrysden/ftnunit
Error in startup script: 
Couldn't configure togl widget
    while executing
"togl .mesa  -width          400  -height         400  -ident          .mesa  -rgba           $toglOpt(rgba)           -redsize        $toglOpt(redsize..."
    (procedure "PlaceGlobWin" line 107)
    invoked from within
"PlaceGlobWin 0 [expr round(670 * $fac1)] [expr round(670 * $fac1)]"
    (procedure "ViewMol" line 25)
    invoked from within
"ViewMol ."
    invoked from within
"if { [llength $argv] > 2 } {
    parseComLinArg [lrange $argv 2 end]
} else {
    ViewMol .
}"
    (file "/usr/share/xcrysden/Tcl/xcInit.tcl" line 633)
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