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Are you using a non-English character set on your computer? If so,<br>
try switching to the English character set and see if that helps.<br>
<br>
Run "caret5 -help". There is a "-style" option. Try starting caret5<br>
with each of the styles to see if one of them helps.<br>
<br>
Linux user of Caret have had problems with the FreeType library (which<br>
is used for rending text by QT) in the past. Is your computer up to<br>
date with patches?<br>
<br>
John<br>
<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Dear John and lists<br> <br>I am actually using English character set as default.<br>This is what my `locale` looks like:<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">LANG=en_US.UTF-8<br>LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"<br>
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8"<br>LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8"<br>LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"<br>LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8"<br>LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"<br>LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8"<br>
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"<br>LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"<br>LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"<br>LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8"<br>LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8"<br>LC_ALL=<br></div>The "-style" option doesn't make things better either.<br>
The version to my freetype package is "freetype-1.3.1-1392.4" (OpenSUSE 11.1).<br>It's the latest version I can get.<br>Interestingly, I noticed that Caret5 is using Qt 4.1 and seems to be static-linked.<br>
My system use Qt 4.5.1 which does not exhibit truncation of texts as those in Caret.<br>It seems unlikely to make Qt dynamically linked in Caret unless I rebuild it, but I made efforts on it and there's lots of technical difficulties such as undefined symbols like "vtkPatented"...<br>
<br>Hiko<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
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> Message: 3<br>
> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:16:50 -0500 (CDT)<br>
> From: Donna Dierker <<a href="mailto:donna@brainvis.wustl.edu">donna@brainvis.wustl.edu</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [caret-users] Caret GUI menu items were truncated (linux<br>
> pre-built version)<br>
> To: "Caret, SureFit, and SuMS software users"<br>
> <<a href="mailto:caret-users@brainvis.wustl.edu">caret-users@brainvis.wustl.edu</a>><br>
> Message-ID:<br>
> <<a href="mailto:50425.68.94.88.238.1246069010.squirrel@brainvis.wustl.edu">50425.68.94.88.238.1246069010.squirrel@brainvis.wustl.edu</a>><br>
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> Enter "caret5 -help" at the command line. There is an option like<br>
> --Cleanlooks or something like that that makes me happy with Caret<br>
> on my<br>
> Linux desktop. Give it a shot.<br>
><br>
> If it makes you happy, too, consider aliasing "caret" to "caret5<br>
> --Cleanlooks" (or whatever the option actually is). I'm not at a<br>
> computer<br>
> that has Caret installed. Shocking, I know.<br>
> Thanks a lot for the information<br>
><br>
> I gave it a try on the command-line option<br>
> That did a great improvement on the layout style but the problem is<br>
> still there<br>
> Maybe a picture can make my point more straightforward:<br>
> <a href="http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/6825/rect3170.png" target="_blank">http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/6825/rect3170.png</a><br>
> Red dotted-boxes show where those truncated items are.<br>
> Apparently, changing GUI style cannot alleviate the problem.<br>
><br>
><br>
> > Dear Caret experts<br>
> ><br>
> > I tried Caret versions of 5.61 and 5.611 on my linux PC (OpenSUSE<br>
> 11.1<br>
> > 64-bit edition).<br>
> > They got the same problem that makes items on menubar truncated.<br>
> > For example, the 3rd item under the "Surface" menu now looks like<br>
> "Convert<br>
> > Main Window Surface to Segmenta".<br>
> > Even though Caret GUI layout is controlled by Qt but there is no<br>
> way to<br>
> > change its layout style with qtconfig.<br>
> > This is quite annoying and prevents me from knowing what a button's<br>
> > function<br>
> > is by reading the text on it.<br>
> ><br>
> > Does anyone know how to fix it?<br>
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