Mathematica stole my X so I had to kill it
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- Subject: [mg36912] Mathematica stole my X so I had to kill it
- From: Steven <hattons at speakeasy.net>
- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 03:31:34 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Global Symmetry
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I'm running Mathematica 4.1 on SuSE Linux 8.0 with the KDE 3.0.3 and XFree86 4.0.2. I was trying to run one of the Mathematica Book -> Graphics Gallery -> Animations -> Rolling Square. I don't recall the exact sequence of actions I took. I believe I selected the cell with the square (the only cell in the notebook) and from the menu, Cell -> Animate Selected Graphics. This resulted in a set of animation control buttons appearing in the bottom frame of the window. I clicked on one of these buttons, but nothing happened. I looke back in the menu and saw M-y as a keyboard shorcut to run an animation. I tried that with no result. I clicked another button in graphics control set, and my X windows locked up. This included the keyboard's ability to give me another display by using Ctl+Alt+F1. I went to another system and ssh-ed in and found Mathematica had over 50% of my user resources, and was climbing. The same was true for VM. I have a gig of physical RAM. Once I killed Mathematica, my X came back to life. I've had several bad experiences with Mathematica and X. I honestly believe there is/are bug(s) in the Linux implementation. I would very much like to help isolate and fix these. Have others had such problems? STH