What are the system requirements — hardware and software — to use Pathway Tools?
Please see the Section “Requirements” in the Pathway Tools Installation Guide at here. 1. Display Problems 1.1. Motif version: Problems with window resizing, fonts, and breaks Q: On Linux, I am having problems with windows: subwindows are the wrong size and cannot be resized, fonts look funny, and my system sometimes freezes when I try to use the mouse with Pathway Tools. What can I do? A: The Unix Pathway Tools need Motif, which is a library of GUI widgets. Under Linux, the correct version needs to have been installed to avoid numerous problems. The symptoms described above can all be caused by using Lesstif, a clone of the Motif window toolkit, rather than OpenMotif, which is a free version of the official Motif library. Ptools-8.
Please see the Section “Requirements” in the Pathway Tools Installation Guide at here. 1. Display Problems 1.1. Motif version: Problems with window resizing, fonts, and breaks Q: On Linux, I am having problems with windows: subwindows are the wrong size and cannot be resized, fonts look funny, and my system sometimes freezes when I try to use the mouse with Pathway Tools. What can I do? A: The Unix Pathway Tools need Motif, which is a library of GUI widgets. Under Linux, the correct version needs to have been installed to avoid numerous problems. The symptoms described above can all be caused by using Lesstif, a clone of the Motif window toolkit, rather than OpenMotif, which is a free version of the official Motif library.
