[Gvsig_english] Setting projections with Ubuntu

[Luis W. Sevilla]

Dan Putler wrote:

> Hi Luis,
>
> The screen resolution doesn't appear to be the problem. The 
> resolution used was 1280x1024 on a 19 inch LCD monitor (the same 
> monitor and resolution I use with my iBook). The DPI is set to 96 on 
> this machine. The monitor is a Benq FB931. The machine is an HP 
> desktop, with an onboard Nvidia GForce chip. The machine itself has a 
> Pentium D 820 cpu. The machine is running Ubuntu 6.06 LTS (Dapper 
> Drake) using the up to date 2.6 smp, 32 bit Linux kernel. Since I 
> wrote the note, I've loaded gvSIG on two other machines. An IBM 
> Thinkpad R40 running Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft). It has an ATI mobile 
> graphics chip, a 1.5GHz Centrino chip set, and a 15.4 inch screen 
> running at a resolution of 1400x1050. The third machine is an old 
> Toshiba Sattelite 1805-5275 running Xubuntu 6.10. It has a 14.1 inch 
> display with a resolution of 1024x766.
>
> All three machines exhibit the same problems with the stable 1.0 
> release. It seems to be a weird interplay between Ubuntu and gvSIG, 
> which I've only seen in the projection selection dialog.
>
> Hopefully this was the information you were looking for.

Yes, a lot. We'll give a deeper look to the problem and release a fix ASAP
    greetings
       Luis

>
> Dan
>
> On 18-Dec-06, at 8:24 AM, Luis W. Sevilla wrote:
>
>> Dan Putler wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This is directly related to a post Patti dott. Giuseppe made on Sept.
>>> 28. In that post he indicates that when changing the projection of a
>>> view that on his Ubuntu 6.06 system that he gets a dialogue box with
>>> what appears to be an unclickable button. The response he got
>>> suggested it might be due using a 1.5.0 JRE, rather than a 1.4.2 JRE.
>>>
>>> I am getting exactly the same problem under Ubuntu 6.06 and 6.10
>>> using the 1.4.2. The machine running Ubuntu 6.10 only has the 1.4.2
>>> JRE installed on it. I was wondering if there is a work around to
>>> this problem that I just haven't been able to find in my web search.
>>
>>
>> I've detected that, with some screen resolutions, GUI behaves in a  very
>> strange fashion. Perhaps you have a screen with a great amount of
>> pixels and not so much screen size (for instance, 1600x1400 with a  15.4
>> screen, and screen DPI setted accurately.
>> If so, the workaround may be to set system screen resolution to 96  DPI,
>> what beahaves standar way, but with big resolutions gives small on
>> screen fonts.
>> Please, send us a complete description of your system to fix this
>> problem. We've made some minor changes about that, but it seems  it's
>> not
>> ready yet.
>> By the way , I suppose you're using 1.0 stable release. in RC3 there
>> were still some resolution problems.
>>
>>> Overall, I'm really impressed with gvSIG. I first loaded on my iBook,
>>> and under OS X it works like a charm.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your comments.
>>
>> Greetins
>>
>>     Luis
>>
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
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>>
>>
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>>   Luis W. Sevilla
>>   Responsable de desarrollo gvSIG en la / gvSIG development Chief at
>>   Conselleria de Infraestructuras y Transporte
>>   Generalitat Valenciana
>>   Valencia - Spain
>>   http://www.gvsig.gva.es
>

-- 
  Luis W. Sevilla
  Responsable de desarrollo gvSIG en la / gvSIG development Chief at
  Conselleria de Infraestructuras y Transporte
  Generalitat Valenciana
  Valencia - Spain
  http://www.gvsig.gva.es