Re: [PyMOL] Odd issue with control and shift keys in pymol

[Paul P. <pau...@um...>]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the info. I don't have the 1.4 version of Pymol handy at the 
moment, but Coot does use the system libglut without problems.

--p


On 07/01/2013 05:36 AM, Thomas Holder wrote:
> Hi Paul and Adam,
>
> I can confirm this. The problem comes with two patches that Fedora
> applies to freeglut (freeglut_xinput.c). I don't know why they do this,
> but if I compile freeglut without those, PyMOL works fine.
>
> Paul, that 1.4.1 version of PyMOL and also Coot, are those linked to the
> system glut library (/usr/lib64/libglut.so.3.9.0 on my Fedora 18) or is
> there any other glut installation?
>
> Incentive builds of PyMOL 1.6 ship with a working glut library. It's
> only used as a fallback if there is no system glut (determined by
> setup.sh). So if you are on Fedora 18, just move
> "pymol/ext/libextra/libglut.so.3" to "pymol/ext/lib/" to give it
> priority over the broken system glut.
>
> Cheers,
>    Thomas
>
> Adam Middleton wrote, On 06/26/13 12:14:
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> I have the same problem. I am using Fedora 18 and PyMOL v.1.5 (from
>> the repository).
>>
>> It is annoying. Right now I have to use another computer if I want to
>> use the more 'advanced' functions of PyMOL.
>>
>> I found one other person with the same problem who posted to the
>> Fedora forum, and got no response:
>> http://www.forum.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=287005
>>
>> No explanations here.
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 3:08 AM, Paul Paukstelis wrote:
>>> I've found that all recent versions (1.5, 1.6, non-incentive) of Pymol
>>> on my laptop running updated Fedora 18 (nvidia drivers) don't allow me
>>> to use the control or shift keys for selection or editing in the gui. I
>>> dug out an older version (1.4.1) and it behaved properly. It appears to
>>> be pymol specific as coot and other programs work fine. Has anyone seen
>>> this before or have some sort of explanation?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> --paul

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