Typing problems in GUI

ROOT
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Hello,

With Release 6.04/00 I had typing problems in TBrower GUI - I couldn’t type any letters (for instance to save a histogram, could not type a name for the histo).

Today I installed 6.04/04 release, the problem remains the same.

I’m using Debian GNU/Linux 8.

Please help,
David

2

Hi,

Yikes! We obviously never saw this.

Can you describe your system more precisely: 64bit? Which GCC does it have? Which window manager?

Did you build ROOT yourself? configure/make or CMake? If not, did you download a binary - which one?

And are there no, zero error messages?

Cheers, Axel.

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Hi Axel,

64 bit system.
gcc version 4.9.2 (Debian 4.9.2-10)
Display maneger: gdm3
I installed root using “configure/make” - no error messages appeared

4

Hi,

I just tried with a Debian 8.2 Virual machine (Linux debian 3.16.0-4-amd64), gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10) 4.9.2, and I cannot reproduce the problem…
Do I understand correctly that you cannot type anything in any part of the GUI (text editor, file dialog, canvas …)?

Cheers, Bertrand.

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Thanks everyone for replying to this message.

Yesterday I fixed the problem, it was related to font variables and keyboard layouts, I set following variables:

export LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
export LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

and removed all keyboard layouts except “US”

problem solved afterwords, I could not conclude font variables helped or removing additional keyboard layouts

Regards,
David

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That’s great news =D> !

May be, in a such case, tell us you found the solution before we (Bertrand in that case) launch all machinery trying to reproduce the issue #-o