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16 years ago

Quartus 9.1 GUI window won't resize

I just installed Quartus 9.1 on our Linux system and the first thing I notice is that the GUI can't be re-sized. I have a two monitor system and the GUI extends across 1 1/2 monitors and only occupies half the height. When I try to resize, it corrupts the screen image of the GUI. If I move the entire window it snaps back to the orignal size and shape.

I'm running under a VNC session on the Linux host, if this matters somehow. All other tools have been running fine (including Quartus 9.0) in this environment.

Anyone else experiencing this?

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    16 years ago

    Hi,

    from time to time II just remove the preferences directory of the mainwin toolkit that Altera used to port Quartus to Linux. You find it in ~/.mw. I had the problem that Quartus didn't open at all sometimes, after entirely deleting this directory, it works again. You will lose your info about recent projects and it will ask you again, if you want the Quartus or Max look.

    Cheers, Alex
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    16 years ago

    Removing the ~/.mw directory made no difference.

    Changing from KDE to Gnome does fix this problem, but I prefer to use KDE. Anyone know a less intrusive solution?

    Also, does anyone else using KDE have this problem?
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    16 years ago

    I hope you removed .mw and not .wm, I don't know what is in there. How did you set up your two monitor system. It could also be a problem how the windowmanager detects the size of your screen. Do you use nvidia or ati or something else? Native drivers or Xorg? Xinerama or not? My colleague is using kde and quartus on a Suse System and has no problems. I use Debian or Ubuntu, today I tried it in a Centos vmware and it works. But ok, I use gnome on all of them.

    Alex
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    16 years ago

    I'm running a vncserver session on a remote RHEL4 host. I connect to this session using vnc-viewer on a PC running Win7. All of this works fine on Quartus 9.0 and on all other apps that I run.

    If I change ~/.vnc/xstartup to launch gnome instead of kde, it also works., so the question is what has changed from 9.0 - 9.1 that doesn't agree with kde ?

    -mark
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    16 years ago

    OK, I found that by replacing KDE's default KWin window manager with the metacity window manager, the window can now be re-sized.

    I used this command prior to launching Quartus:

    metacity --replace &

    An interesting output now shows up on the terminal window used to launch Quartus II:

    "window manager warning: window 0x120007f (quartus ii) sets an mwm hint indicating it isn't resizable, but sets min size 1 x 1 and max size 2147483647 x 2147483647; this doesn't make much sense."

    This displays everytime I re-size the main window, and even when scrolling some sub-windows in the framework.
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    16 years ago

    I have the same problem in centos 5.4 (gnome) ,there is jtag can't work. I am looking for solution

    I found the jtag problem,is because the parallel port permission issues.

    Solution is "chmod a+rw /dev/parallex"