[Paraview] No keyboard input on CentOS 5 (==Redhat Enterprise 5)

[Sean Ziegeler]

I don't know about the graphical problems, but I may be able to help 
with the keyboard issue.  I've been meaning to post this to the list 
anyway, but haven't bothered because it will probably be resolved by PV 
3 anyway.

I use Fedora Core 6 which includes the Smart Common Input Method (SCIM), 
and RHEL/CentOS 5 may as well.  It seems to intermittently cause both PV 
2.4.x & 2.6.x to ignore the keyboard.  If you have root you can probably 
disable it, but I don't, so I just kill SCIM and when it resets 
everything is ok.  The following works for me:

killall scim-launcher scim-helper-manager scim-panel-gtk scim-bridge

Hope that helps,
Sean

Bernhard Gschaider wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I've just recently updated my computer to CentOS 5. The paraview
> installation remained the same.
> 
> Now Paraview is behaving strangly:
> 
> - When starting, the Splash-Screen looks washed out (I think solarized
>   is the name for the effects). The filter-icons look the same. (But
>   thats OK for working)
> - Some of the textboxes (but not all of them) don't accept keyboard
>   input (that is serious). Among them are
>   - the textboxes for the editing of the colormap
>   - the textbox for the file dialogs
> - The "wheels" that are used for the transformations (scale etc) look
>   like the icons and behave strangly (hard to explain, but they're hard
>   to click and keep spinning)
> 
> Does anyone have an idea what the problem could be?
> 
> As I said: system is a CenOS 5(for all practical purposes equal to
> Redhat Enterprise 5). The machine is an Opeteron. Graphics-Board is an
> NVidia with the vendor-driver compiled as a kernel-module.
> 
> The same effect can be seen in a Paraview 2.4.3 and a 2.6 version
> 
> I think one of the libraries got updated and doesn't like paraview any
> more. Canh anyone here with a deeper knowleadge about paraview tell me
> which library could be to blame?
> 
> Thanks
> 
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