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Weird problems with the GUI in Linux

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I'm very impressed with Irrlicht and its much easier to use than other game engines that I have tried. However, the 5th tutorial is acting really weird on my computer. I'd imagine its one of my settings that are causing these problems, but I can't figure it out.

The first problem is that the GUI doesn't appear to work at all in the Ion Window Manager. I tried it in both ion2 and ion3, and though the GUI appears, it doesn't react at all (clicking on buttons or scrollbars doesn't do anything).

The other problem I'm having is that in all of the window managers that I have tried (including ones where the actual interface did work, like KDE and OpenBox), everything is really ugly. The problem seems to be mostly in the fonts, but the X button and the arrows of the scrollbar are also turning out weird. Is there something wrong with my font settings or something? No other software I have used has come up with such strange graphics.
Here is a screenshot (taken from the KDE Window Manager): http://members.rogers.com/shalomnaumann ... rlicht.png I didn't resize or anything. That's a screenshot taken directly from Irrlicht. Notice how normal the fonts of the outside window made by KDE are, while the entire contents of the window is really strange. I wonder what could cause that.

I'm using Xorg on the 2.6.5 kernel in gentoo. Here is my xorg.conf - if it helps:

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Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Layout1"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
	ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "xtrap"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "speedo"
	Load  "type1"
	Load  "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "keyboard"
	Option	    "XkbRules" "xorg"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc104"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/mouse"
	Option	    "Buttons" "5"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
	Modeline "1024x768"     94.50   1024 1072 1168 1376    768  769  772  808 +hsync +vsync
EndSection

Section "Device"

        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "DigitalVibrance"    	# <i>
        #Option     "PageFlip"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac8Bit"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoLogo"             	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "Overlay"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "UBB"                	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "Stereo"             	# <i>
        #Option     "WindowFlip"         	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "HWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"           	# <i>
        #Option     "NvAGP"              	# <i>
        #Option     "IgnoreEDID"         	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoDDC"              	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ConnectedMonitor"   	# <str>
        #Option     "ConnectedMonitors"  	# <str>
        #Option     "TVStandard"         	# <str>
        #Option     "TVOutFormat"        	# <str>
        #Option     "RenderAccel"        	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "CursorShadow"       	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "CursorShadowAlpha"  	# <i>
        #Option     "CursorShadowXOffset" 	# <i>
        #Option     "CursorShadowYOffset" 	# <i>
        #Option     "UseEdidFreqs"       	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "FlatPanelProperties" 	# <str>
        #Option     "TwinView"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "TwinViewOrientation" 	# <str>
        #Option     "SecondMonitorHorizSync" 	# <str>
        #Option     "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" 	# <str>
        #Option     "MetaModes"          	# <str>
        #Option     "UseInt10Module"     	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "SwapReady"          	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoTwinViewXineramaInfo" 	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoRenderExtension"  	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "UseClipIDs"         	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "CIOverlay"          	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "TransparentIndex"   	# <i>
        #Option     "OverlayDefaultVisual" 	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "NvEmulate"          	# <i>
        #Option     "NoBandWidthTest"    	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "CustomEDID-CRT-0"   	# <str>
        #Option     "CustomEDID-CRT-1"   	# <str>
        #Option     "CustomEDID-DFP-0"   	# <str>
        #Option     "CustomEDID-DFP-1"   	# <str>
        #Option     "CustomEDID-TV-0"    	# <str>
        #Option     "CustomEDID-TV-1"    	# <str>
        #Option     "TVOverScan"         	# <f>
        #Option     "IgnoreDisplayDevices" 	# <str>
        #Option     "MultisampleCompatibility" 	# [<bool>]
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
	BoardName   "NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth 24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes "1024x768"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Group        0
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "X.org Configured"
	Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
	InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
	InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
	Identifier     "Layout1"
EndSection

Section "Files"
	RgbPath      "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
	ModulePath   "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/"
	FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection

Section "Module"
	Load  "extmod"
	Load  "dri"
	Load  "dbe"
	Load  "record"
	Load  "xtrap"
	Load  "glx"
	Load  "speedo"
	Load  "type1"
	Load  "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Keyboard0"
	Driver      "keyboard"
	Option	    "XkbRules" "xorg"
	Option	    "XkbModel" "pc104"
	Option	    "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
	Identifier  "Mouse0"
	Driver      "mouse"
	Option	    "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
	Option	    "Device" "/dev/mouse"
	Option	    "Buttons" "5"
	Option	    "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier   "Monitor0"
	VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
	ModelName    "Monitor Model"
	Modeline "1024x768"     94.50   1024 1072 1168 1376    768  769  772  808 +hsync +vsync
EndSection

Section "Device"

        ### Available Driver options are:-
        ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
        ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
        ### [arg]: arg optional
        #Option     "DigitalVibrance"    	# <i>
        #Option     "PageFlip"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "Dac8Bit"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoLogo"             	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "Overlay"            	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "UBB"                	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "Stereo"             	# <i>
        #Option     "WindowFlip"         	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "SWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "HWcursor"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "VideoKey"           	# <i>
        #Option     "NvAGP"              	# <i>
        #Option     "IgnoreEDID"         	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoDDC"              	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "ConnectedMonitor"   	# <str>
        #Option     "ConnectedMonitors"  	# <str>
        #Option     "TVStandard"         	# <str>
        #Option     "TVOutFormat"        	# <str>
        #Option     "RenderAccel"        	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "CursorShadow"       	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "CursorShadowAlpha"  	# <i>
        #Option     "CursorShadowXOffset" 	# <i>
        #Option     "CursorShadowYOffset" 	# <i>
        #Option     "UseEdidFreqs"       	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "FlatPanelProperties" 	# <str>
        #Option     "TwinView"           	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "TwinViewOrientation" 	# <str>
        #Option     "SecondMonitorHorizSync" 	# <str>
        #Option     "SecondMonitorVertRefresh" 	# <str>
        #Option     "MetaModes"          	# <str>
        #Option     "UseInt10Module"     	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "SwapReady"          	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoTwinViewXineramaInfo" 	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "NoRenderExtension"  	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "UseClipIDs"         	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "CIOverlay"          	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "TransparentIndex"   	# <i>
        #Option     "OverlayDefaultVisual" 	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "NvEmulate"          	# <i>
        #Option     "NoBandWidthTest"    	# [<bool>]
        #Option     "CustomEDID-CRT-0"   	# <str>
        #Option     "CustomEDID-CRT-1"   	# <str>
        #Option     "CustomEDID-DFP-0"   	# <str>
        #Option     "CustomEDID-DFP-1"   	# <str>
        #Option     "CustomEDID-TV-0"    	# <str>
        #Option     "CustomEDID-TV-1"    	# <str>
        #Option     "TVOverScan"         	# <f>
        #Option     "IgnoreDisplayDevices" 	# <str>
        #Option     "MultisampleCompatibility" 	# [<bool>]
	Identifier  "Card0"
	Driver      "nvidia"
	VendorName  "nVidia Corporation"
	BoardName   "NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]"
	BusID       "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier "Screen0"
	Device     "Card0"
	Monitor    "Monitor0"
	DefaultDepth 24
	SubSection "Display"
		Viewport   0 0
		Depth     24
		Modes "1024x768"
	EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "DRI"
	Group        0
EndSection
Hopefully this is mistake on my part, but all the rest of my software appears normally. I just ran make in the directory with the example and ran ./example.
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mm765
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Post by mm765 »

im using kde 3.0.5 on suse 8.1 and a geforce card and have no such problems (kernel 2.4.21).
just a very wild guess from the looks of your screenshot: do you use a lcd monitor that is capable of displaying 1280x1024 in 1024x768 mode ?
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Post by clum »

No, I'm using a Dell Trinitron monitor. Its 1024X768 (which is the "recommended resolution" anyway).
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