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Running xmaple gives me just blank window

Posted on 2007-10-16 19:55 By marri (0)
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After successfully installing maple 11 on my computer running Ubuntu I start maple by executing the xmaple command. That will give the splash screen and later start a window which is just grey with no menu bars. In the end the startup tip dialog appears and when I select anything from there it disappears and nothing happens after that. The window stays gray. If I press the location of the window where the menu bar should be (also press F10) I get the menu items. Selecting any of them, like options, will invoke a dialog which is fine but there is nothing happening when opening a file or wanting to run an example or such.
Anybody have a similar experience/problem ?

regards
Marri

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JacquesC's picture

Contact technical support

Comment on 2007-10-21 10:15 from JacquesC (Maple Rating 4 1699)

email support@maplesoft.com, they are in the best position to help with such platform-specific issues.

Possible workaround

Comment on 2007-11-22 04:55 from Thomas Richard (Maple Rating 2 145)

Today, this phenomenon was reported to us by a Mandriva 2008 user, too.
And we recently got a phone call from a Ubuntu 7.10 user who found a solution that works at least for him: he replaced Maple's jre.IBM_INTEL_LINUX with the latest Sun JRE version which is available from here.
Please note that all these distributions are too new to be officially supported.

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Latest Sun JRE version also

Comment on 2008-02-24 14:28 from cosmicstring (Maple Rating 1 17)

Latest Sun JRE version also worked for me under Ubuntu 7.10

Good Evening, I just had the

Comment on 2008-07-12 17:40 from Karl-Ranz (9)

Good Evening,

I just had the same problem and stumbled upon this thread, which might help you as it did for me:

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-450064.html

 

Karl

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Fix for 64-bit Ubuntu 8.10

Comment on 2008-11-26 17:15 from alec (Maple Rating 4 1604)

I've just installed Maple12 on my 64-bit Ubuntu 8.10 system, and got the same problem starting Maple - an empty grey screen without even toolbars.

The suggestions in the thread on ubuntuforums mentioned above didn't work. 

The suggestion given by Thomas Richard in this thread worked.

I did that as follows: opened ~/maple12/bin/maple file in a text editor and replaced lines 244 and 245,

 MAPLE_JRE_BIN="$MAPLE/jre.X86_64_LINUX/bin/"
 JRE_ROOT="$MAPLE/jre.X86_64_LINUX/lib"

with

 MAPLE_JRE_BIN="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/"
 JRE_ROOT="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib"

Thus far (for a few minutes) everything seems to work fine, including plotting and help system.

Alec

Edit: Just updated Maple to version 12.01 and had to edit the ~/maple12/bin/maple file again (the same way), because it was replaced during the update. Again, everything looks fine thus far (for a few minutes) after that. -Alec

 

Thanks a lot.   I have

Comment on 2008-12-05 03:50 from rno (Maple Rating 1 12)

Thanks a lot.

 

I have changed the lines in /...MAPLE_DIR.../bin/maple file into:

        MAPLE_JRE_BIN="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/"         #"$MAPLE/jre.X86_64_LINUX/bin/"
        JRE_ROOT="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/lib"               #"$MAPLE/jre.X86_64_LINUX/lib"

 

Now printing service is found :-)

plot3d works for me, too

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Same for Maple 12.02

Comment on 2008-12-31 17:50 from alec (Maple Rating 4 1604)

Had to do the same thing after upgrading to Maple 12.02.

By the way, trying to upgrade from the Tools menu didn't work - it said that the update was not available, so I had to go to the Maplesoft web site to get the upgrade.

Alec

Figures plotted non-clickable

Comment on 2008-11-19 08:22 from jasperlotus (3)

Hello,

I replaced jre.IBM_INTEL_LINUX with system's jre, but when I use plot3d(), a plotting frame appears, but if I click that frame, xmaple crashes. I'm using Fedora 9 and Maple 12.

 

Please help!

Workaround for plot crashes under Linux

Comment on 2008-11-19 10:59 from Thomas Richard (Maple Rating 2 145)

If you see a  "Use hardware acceleration for plots" entry in the Tools > Options > Display dialog, uncheck it, then click one of the Apply buttons, then re-do the plots. This solved the problem on some machines at least. Replacing the JRE should be independent of that, though I can't tell for sure.

Thanks Thomas, it works!

Comment on 2008-11-19 12:08 from jasperlotus (3)

Well, after unchecked that option, my xmaple runs like a charm. Thanks!

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