Hi Shaun, Have you tried turning off compiz? (System > Preferences > Appearance > Visual Effects: Select 'None')
Cheers, Stephen On 11/05/2009, Shaun Lott <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > Apologies if this problem has been dealt with elsewhere - I scanned the > archives but couldn't see anything that looked similar. > > I'm about to use Coot as part of a graduate teaching exercise. Version 0.52 > starts ok, and can load co-ords and maps, but whenever one clicks, the > screen gets corrupted - see attached image. You can get a normal view back > by rotating the molecule, but the whole user experience is a pretty > frustrating one, as it is pretty much impossible to click on anything. The > fault seems to be hardware and Coot version independent - it manifests in > 0.5.2 and also using > 0.6-pre-1-revision-1997-binary-Linux-i686-ubuntu-8.04.2, though less > dramatically in the latter - just a grey screen rather than the corrupted > one. The same thing occurs when using a Dell or an iMac running Ubuntu > (don't ask...) > > So I'm guessing it's a(n) Ubuntu thing. The machine are running the same > versrion of EdUbuntu 8.10, details as below. > > Has anyone else seen this? Does anyone have a fix? > > cheers > > Shaun > > > cat /proc/version > Linux version 2.6.27-7-generic (bui...@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Ubuntu > 4.3.2-1ubuntu11) ) #1 SMP Tue Nov 4 19:33:20 UTC 2008 > > > -- Dr Stephen Graham Division of Structural Biology Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics Roosevelt Drive Oxford OX3 7BN United Kingdom Phone: +44 1865 287 549
