[kde-linux] Linux and Mathematica Input[] function

[Richard Pace]

On Tuesday 01 November 2005 09:13, Jim Philips wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 November 2005 11:56, Richard Pace wrote:
> > On Tuesday 01 November 2005 07:54, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > > Richard Pace wrote:
> > > > I'm running SuSe 9.3 with KDE 3.4.1 level a and Mathematica 5.2
> > > > (Student Version).  I'm trying to use "interactive input" in a
> > > > Mathematica Notebook. Within a Mathematica Notebook I enter something
> > > > like the following:
> > > >
> > > > x = Input["test"]
> > >
> > > ...
> > >
> > > > However, I am unable to type anything in the input area.  The cursor
> > > > appears, but I cannot type.  If I press the "OK" button, the window
> > > > flickers and reappears.  I have to "abort" the Mathematica command to
> > > > terminate the window.
> > >
> > >  From past experience, Mathematica didn't play nice with klipper.  Try
> > > disabling klipper if you have it running.
> >
> > I "quit" klipper and tried again with same results.  Just in case, I
> > restarted Mathematica and tried again with same results.  I don't know
> > much about this - is X Windows system involved here?
> > Richard
>
> Well, the time-honored technique on that front is to invoke the program
> from the command line and see if it throws any meaningful errors in the
> terminal window. I don't know what toolkit (Java?) they're using to draw
> the window, but that may be causing you problems.
In case anyone is interested, I found two statements in my /etc/X11/Xresources
file that appear to be the culprit:

XMathematica*XmText.translations:
XMathematica*Text.translations:

I added those lines some time ago on recommendation from Wolfram support because of a "delete-next-character" warning message problem issued by the Mathematica front end.  See

http://support.wolfram.com/mathematica/systems/linux/intel/deletenext.html

I don't know what those statements do, but I'll leave it for Wolfram to resolve.  If anyone has any comment on this, what those statements do, et cetera, I  welcome it.
Thanks, 
Richard

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