This looks like it isn¹t finding the monospaced font for some reason. The first thing to try is to run it with this flag:
./art -Dfont_name=Monospaced (it should be picking this up from the options file in the distribution) Regards Tim On 6/4/10 4:09 PM, "Anthony Haines" <a.s.hai...@bham.ac.uk> wrote: > Thank you both for the suggestions. > > The look and feel was already set to Metal when I checked. I also tried > CDE/Motif to > no avail. But it was a good idea. > > >> > First you need to determine whether the issue is Artemis or your X11 client >> etc. > > I think we have already established this - we initially suspected eXceed too. > We tried it on a Linux machine and the same version of Artemis ran fine > locally, but was > 'broken' when running with its own X-terminal. > > I BCC'd my first message to tech support, and he thought I was pestering him > again; > here is his reply: > : In a word - NO. It is a bug in the Artemis code. Note it can be installed > under > : Windows locally. As you say this is definitely an X-remote problem. We saw > : this running the version on Helen when displaying on a machine running > exactly > : the same o/s with a "proper" X server, > > To be slightly more technically correct, if it is a bug in the X display, it > fails identically > in two independent systems. The more likely explanation is I think that the > display that > Artemis generates doesn't space out the letters when outputting to an > X-window. > I put an example image on a free web hosting service: > http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/139/artemisborked.png > > Thank you for your time. > Tony > > >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: yeali...@gmail.com [mailto:yeali...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Yealing >> Sent: 04 June 2010 04:35 >> To: Anthony Haines >> Subject: Re: [Artemis-users] display issue with remote artemis access >> >> Hello Tony, >> >> >> Not sure if I can help, and I'm not sure if I understand your problem >> exactly, but here's my two cents. >> >> >> >> Artemis 12 (since 11 I believe) comes with themes (Option > Look and Feel), >> which can be set from the main window. When you use the NIMBUS/GTK+ theme, >> the base view "bases" would seem to justify to the left, not arranged to >> three-bases=one-amino-acid as it is suppose to be (it is most useful that >> way). This is because these themes uses non-monospace fonts, which does not >> give every character equal space in visualization space. >> >> >> >> Try changing the Look and Feel to Metal or CDE/Motif. You will have to close >> the artemis viewer and re-load the sequence file. If your default Look and >> Feel is already Metal (I believe Artemis is shipped so), then I expect >> you're not having the problem I have in mind. >> >> >> >> All the best and cheers, >> >> -- yealing -- >> >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Anthony Haines <a.s.hai...@bham.ac.uk> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi. >>> We recently had to change hardware from some very old legacy machines, >>> and installed a new version of artemis on the replacement. >>> >>> Artemis is version 12.0 >>> running on Bio-Linux >>> >>> When we use this remotely, on Windows running eXceed or on a unix system, >>> the text in the base view panel is not formatted correctly - it is all >>> left-justified. (This is also the case in the top panel if zoomed in.) >>> Obviously this makes Artemis unfit for many purposes, including much >>> of what I'd like to use it for. >>> The issue seems to be with accessing it remotely with X windows. >>> Can this be fixed? >>> I can supply a screenshot if it helps. >>> > > > _______________________________________________ > Artemis-users mailing list > Artemis-users@sanger.ac.uk > http://lists.sanger.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/artemis-users
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