[EMBOSS] X11 display

Thomas Keller kellert at ohsu.edu
Mon Sep 22 18:42:07 UTC 2003


I'll bet Richard Grant's not to Derek is apropos! ;-)
  - X11 on MacOsX is effectively broken w.r.t. EMBOSS.  You could
try installing Xfree86 4.3, or waiting for Panther ;)
Richard P. Grant               
http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/personal/rpg/

On Monday, September 22, 2003, at 11:35  AM, Thomas Keller wrote:

> Greetings,
> I'm using EMBOSS over an ssh connection to a Sun box, I'm on a Mac OS 
> X machine running X11.
> I get the folllowing error with abiview.
> ~/data/dseq% 79->abiview
> Reads ABI file and display the trace
> Input file: test.abi
> Output sequence [test.fasta]:
> Graph type [x11]:
> Error in XCreatePixmap: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window 
> parameter).
>
> Suggestions appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Tom K.
> Tom Keller, Ph.D.
> http://www.ohsu.edu/core
> kellert at ohsu.edu
> 503-494-2442
>
>




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