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Richard Hobbs
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Message 6753 - Posted: 2 Dec 2006, 20:24:01 UTC

Hello,

When i click the "Show Graphics" button on BOINC 5.4.9 on my Linux machine, nothing happens.

No graphics appear, and in fact, no window even appears for the graphics to be shown in.

Does anyone know how i might be able to fix this?

Thanks in advance! :-)
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Message 6754 - Posted: 2 Dec 2006, 20:40:05 UTC

Did you click on a WU to select it BEFORE clicking the Show graphics button?

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Message 6758 - Posted: 2 Dec 2006, 22:55:17 UTC - in response to Message 6754.  

Did you click on a WU to select it BEFORE clicking the Show graphics button?



um... yes... lol
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Message 6875 - Posted: 9 Dec 2006, 0:30:24 UTC

Which application did you try? I notice that you run Rosetta (which is the only application I have running under Linux) and I've seen it mentioned on one of the message boards that the graphics module for Rosetta on Linux hasn't yet been written.
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Message 6885 - Posted: 9 Dec 2006, 13:00:28 UTC - in response to Message 6875.  

Which application did you try? I notice that you run Rosetta (which is the only application I have running under Linux) and I've seen it mentioned on one of the message boards that the graphics module for Rosetta on Linux hasn't yet been written.


SETI, Einstein, Monte Carlo (QMC) all have clickable "Show graphics" buttons, but i don't get graphics for any of them.

I don't know if it makes a difference, but i run all my boinc stuff under a different user account (username: boinc) and when i run the boinc_manager, i SSH into localhost with X11 Forwarding to effectively run the GUI as if i was logged in as boinc.

This shouldn't make a difference though, i export my display with stuff like this a lot with things that need to open new windows, and they work fine (i.e. the "Open" dialog in OpenOffice etc...), so this shouldn't be any different, surely...
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Message 7113 - Posted: 24 Dec 2006, 8:47:12 UTC

This shows one solution for Linux graphics:

http://wiki.debian.org/BOINC
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