David Jansen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 07:04:11AM +0200, Joachim Backes wrote: >> Hi, >> >> having the problem that xmaple (maple-10) does not run on FC5: it exits >> immediately. maple-10 itself runs als CLI perfectly, but not as X >> application. >> >> Did somebody make similar experiences, or did somebody solve this >> problem? >> >> Any anwer is appreciated. >> >> Regards > > I noticed that too some time ago. It turns out maple comes with 2 GUIs, > a default one that is written in Java and another (older) GUI which uses > Motif libraries. It's the Java GUI which is broken, because maple > includes an old version of the IBM JRE which doesn't seem to work with > Xorg X11 R7 For the record, maple includes *sun's* java, not IBM's. > Solution 1. Use the motif interface: 'maple -cw' IMO, the "classic" interface is buggy in many ways. Avoid if at all possible. > Solution 2. Install a newer JRE and make sure xmaple uses that one. Works, that's what we do. > I tried this with gcj and SUN Java, but that didn't work (gcj crashed, > Sun Java had problems with fonts, lots of symbols went missing). So I'm > not completely sure if this is a real solution, I stick with the motif > interface for now. Just make sure to use a proper fonts.properties (some day java will use fontconfig hopefully), and all is well. -- Rex
