Are you using a non-English character set on your computer? If so, try switching to the English character set and see if that helps.
Run "caret5 -help". There is a "-style" option. Try starting caret5 with each of the styles to see if one of them helps. Linux user of Caret have had problems with the FreeType library (which is used for rending text by QT) in the past. Is your computer up to date with patches? John On Jun 27, 2009, at 3:57 PM, HIKO Y. Yu wrote: > > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:16:50 -0500 (CDT) > From: Donna Dierker <do...@brainvis.wustl.edu> > Subject: Re: [caret-users] Caret GUI menu items were truncated (linux > pre-built version) > To: "Caret, SureFit, and SuMS software users" > <caret-users@brainvis.wustl.edu> > Message-ID: > <50425.68.94.88.238.1246069010.squir...@brainvis.wustl.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 > > Enter "caret5 -help" at the command line. There is an option like > --Cleanlooks or something like that that makes me happy with Caret > on my > Linux desktop. Give it a shot. > > If it makes you happy, too, consider aliasing "caret" to "caret5 > --Cleanlooks" (or whatever the option actually is). I'm not at a > computer > that has Caret installed. Shocking, I know. > Thanks a lot for the information > > I gave it a try on the command-line option > That did a great improvement on the layout style but the problem is > still there > Maybe a picture can make my point more straightforward: > http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/6825/rect3170.png > Red dotted-boxes show where those truncated items are. > Apparently, changing GUI style cannot alleviate the problem. > > > > Dear Caret experts > > > > I tried Caret versions of 5.61 and 5.611 on my linux PC (OpenSUSE > 11.1 > > 64-bit edition). > > They got the same problem that makes items on menubar truncated. > > For example, the 3rd item under the "Surface" menu now looks like > "Convert > > Main Window Surface to Segmenta". > > Even though Caret GUI layout is controlled by Qt but there is no > way to > > change its layout style with qtconfig. > > This is quite annoying and prevents me from knowing what a button's > > function > > is by reading the text on it. > > > > Does anyone know how to fix it? > > _______________________________________________ > > caret-users mailing list > > caret-users@brainvis.wustl.edu > > http://brainvis.wustl.edu/mailman/listinfo/caret-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > caret-users mailing list > caret-users@brainvis.wustl.edu > http://brainvis.wustl.edu/mailman/listinfo/caret-users _______________________________________________ caret-users mailing list caret-users@brainvis.wustl.edu http://brainvis.wustl.edu/mailman/listinfo/caret-users
