Processing graphics window on Ubuntu 11.10 does not work

robfrias

Processing graphics window on Ubuntu 11.10 does not work

in Integration and Hardware • 11 months ago

Basically, if the processing program is supposed to draw sophisticated stuff, my processing output window just shows what was in the background when it first opened up. If I move this window, the picture of the background follows along with it. What is quite odd is that I don't get any error messages what so ever. I tried it with known good examples.

Being very new to Ubuntu, I un-installed Iced Tea java, then downloaded and installed Java JDK. It didn't make any difference. What is very strange is that when I type "java -version" in my terminal window I get this:

java version "1.6.0_24"

OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.11.5) (6b24-1.11.5-0ubuntu1~11.10.1)

OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b12, mixed mode)

How is this possible if I un-installed IcedTea using the Ubuntu Software Center. Does the Ubuntu Software Center tend to lie to the users? that is, when u uninstall something does it trick you into believing that it did so but it really didn't? How do I really get rid off the IcedTea6 java stuff?

Roberto

Replies(6)

kooogy

Re: Processing graphics window on Ubuntu 11.10 does not work

11 months ago

did you run update-alternatives?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java

(not tried this myself, am on a different ubuntu release and have only installed sun-java...)

monkstone

Re: Processing graphics window on Ubuntu 11.10 does not work

11 months ago

You shouldn't need to worry about iced tea version etc if installed. To run with the sun jdk you either use the jre + tools in the java folder (under processing-1.5.1 or or processing 2.0a6) or create a symbolic link to the sun jdk if you want 64 bit jdk with processing-.1.5.1.

Try this in a console cd to to processing directory:-

bash -x processing

That is both diagnostic and should fire up processing with the linked jdk or included jre + tools.

By the way I've found latest openJDK 1.7.0_09 works just fine.

robfrias

Re: Re: Processing graphics window on Ubuntu 11.10 does not work

11 months ago

So I got into the processing directory and ran Processing with the bash command. Listed below is the result. Still behaves with a bad graphics window when I run a known good sketch.

flyer@dell:~/Desktop/processing-2.0b6$ bash -x processing

+ JDKLIBS='rt.jar tools.jar'

+ LOGGING=0

++ readlink -f processing

+ APPDIR=/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/processing

++ dirname /home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/processing

+ APPDIR=/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6

+ log APPDIR

+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'

++ readlink -f /home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/java

+ JDKDIR=/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/java

+ make_jdkcp /home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/java

+ '[' -f /home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/java/../bin/java ']'

+ DIR=/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/java

+ log DIR

+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'

+ JDKCP=

+ SUCCESS=1

+ for L in '$JDKLIBS'

++ find /home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/java -name rt.jar

++ head -n 1

+ LIB=/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/java/lib/rt.jar

+ log L

+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'

+ log LIB

+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'

+ '[' -n /home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/java/lib/rt.jar ']'

+ JDKCP=/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/java/lib/rt.jar

+ for L in '$JDKLIBS'

++ find /home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/java -name tools.jar

++ head -n 1

+ LIB=/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/java/lib/tools.jar

+ log L

+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'

+ log LIB

+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'

+ '[' -n /home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/java/lib/tools.jar ']'

+ JDKCP=/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/java/lib/rt.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/java/lib/tools.jar

+ log JDKCP

+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'

+ log SUCCESS

+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'

+ '[' 1 -ne 1 ']'

+ CLASSPATH=/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/java/lib/rt.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/java/lib/tools.jar

+ for LIB in '"$APPDIR"/lib/*.jar'

+ CLASSPATH=/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/java/lib/rt.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/java/lib/tools.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/lib/ant.jar

+ for LIB in '"$APPDIR"/lib/*.jar'

+ for LIB in '"$APPDIR"/core/library/*.jar'

+ CLASSPATH=/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/java/lib/rt.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/java/lib/tools.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/lib/ant.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/lib/ant-launcher.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/lib/antlr.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/lib/jna.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/lib/pde.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/core.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/gluegen-rt.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/gluegen-rt-natives-linux-amd64.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/gluegen-rt-natives-linux-i586.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/gluegen-rt-natives-macosx-universal.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/gluegen-rt-natives-windows-amd64.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/gluegen-rt-natives-windows-i586.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/jogl-all.jar

+ for LIB in '"$APPDIR"/core/library/*.jar'

+ export CLASSPATH

+ log CLASSPATH

+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'

+ export PATH=/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/java/bin:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games

+ PATH=/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/java/bin:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games

+ log PATH

+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'

+ '[' '' ']'

+ SKETCH=

+ cd /home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6

++ basename processing

+ current_name=processing

+ cmd_name=processing-java

+ '[' processing = processing-java ']'

+ java processing.app.Base ''

flyer@dell:~/Desktop/processing-2.0b6$

(java:4488): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "pixmap",

monkstone

Re: Processing graphics window on Ubuntu 11.10 does not work

11 months ago

Well that is a bit weird but, with the above reported conditions processing is/was running with the installed rt.jar and tools.jar supplied with the pde download (ie no external java depencies). May'be theme engine complaint etc is some left over cruft from the iced tea install. Mainly in the past I avoided installing openjdk on ubuntu, but because I wanted 64bit jdk I removed the java with processing and created a symbolic link to the Sun/Oracle jdk. However recently as I mentioned before, I have had good success with openjdk-1.7.0_09, but that was on Archlinux and the install was easy, it might not be so simple with Ubuntu. Perhaps you just need to purge the openjdk config files, and continue to use the included jre (apt --purge or some such if remember correctly). Actually for already remove packages this link might be interesting http://www.debian-administration.org/users/fsateler/weblog/4.

robfrias

Re: Processing graphics window on Ubuntu 11.10 does not work

11 months ago

Okay, so what I did is I renamed the java folder in the Processing folder to " baloney" and created a java link to the Jdk1.7.0_09 folder that I also put in my desktop. Now it refuses to run all sketches. I actually get a readable error message. "Could not run the sketch" Below, all this gobbledygook appeared. The only jars I'm familiar with are cookie jars so I'm not sure what all this .jar stuf is about.

/tmp/FreeIMU_yaw_pitch_roll7102236889952146254temp:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/gluegen-rt-natives-linux-i586.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/jogl-all.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/gluegen-rt-natives-macosx-universal.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/jogl-all-natives-macosx-universal.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/jogl-all-natives-linux-i586.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/jogl-all-natives-linux-amd64.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/gluegen-rt.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/core.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/gluegen-rt-natives-windows-amd64.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/jogl-all-natives-windows-i586.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/jogl-all-natives-windows-amd64.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/gluegen-rt-natives-linux-amd64.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/gluegen-rt-natives-windows-i586.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/gluegen-rt-natives-linux-i586.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/jogl-all.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/gluegen-rt-natives-macosx-universal.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/jogl-all-natives-macosx-universal.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/jogl-all-natives-linux-i586.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/jogl-all-natives-linux-amd64.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/gluegen-rt.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/core.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/gluegen-rt-natives-windows-amd64.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/jogl-all-natives-windows-i586.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/jogl-all-natives-windows-amd64.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/gluegen-rt-natives-linux-amd64.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/gluegen-rt-natives-windows-i586.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/modes/java/libraries/serial/library/RXTXcomm.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/modes/java/libraries/serial/library/serial.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/jdk1.7.0_09/jre/lib/rt.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/jdk1.7.0_09/lib/tools.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/lib/ant-launcher.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/lib/ant.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/lib/antlr.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/lib/jna.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/lib/pde.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/core.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/gluegen-rt-natives-linux-amd64.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/gluegen-rt-natives-linux-i586.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/gluegen-rt-natives-macosx-universal.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/gluegen-rt-natives-windows-amd64.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/gluegen-rt-natives-windows-i586.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/gluegen-rt.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/jogl-all-natives-linux-amd64.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/jogl-all-natives-linux-i586.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/jogl-all-natives-macosx-universal.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/jogl-all-natives-windows-amd64.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/jogl-all-natives-windows-i586.jar:/home/flyer/Desktop/processing-2.0b6/core/library/jogl-all.jar -ea processing.core.PApplet "--editor-location=625,236" --external --display=1 --sketch-path=/home/flyer/sketchbook/FreeIMU_yaw_pitch_roll FreeIMU_yaw_pitch_roll , quote=quote=", address=address=127.0.0.1:8451}

robfrias

Re: Processing graphics window on Ubuntu 11.10 does not work

11 months ago

Well, since the previous experiment didn't work, I removed the symbolic link to java and installed the brand newly downloaded extracted jdk 1.7.0_09 folder into the Processing folder and renamed it as "java". This made no difference, Processing will not run any sketch in Ubuntu. I will next try a 32 bit version of Java, see if it works any better.

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