[mhaut]

Dear all,

I have recently installed the geometry and meshing tool boxes of ICEM CFD (version 14.5.7) on a 64 bit linux box running Ubuntu 13.10.

Browsing through this forum, I found a the fix to the font issue that is getting ICEM CFD to crash and it fixed this issue for me. Thanks for that :-)

Now, I am having another weird issue; it seems that I cannot edit, erase of modify any field of the GUI. For instance, if I want to change the name of the project (.prj) upon saving it for the first time, I cannot modify the default file name: project1.prj.

Did anyone experience the same issue and found how to fix it?

Thanks a lot in advance for your help!
Cheers,
Martin

[mailord]

Dear mhaut,

I have the same problem within APDL. (Ansys 14.5.7 and Ubuntu 13.10). When I have the launcher open, I cannot edit any text field, for instance working directory or jobname with the keyboard. Only copy past via mouse is possible.

Within APDL, the command line has the same issue when I try to put some commands in there. However, when I undock the launcher it is possible to input commands via keyboard.

Did you solve this problem for your system? I would really appreciate any hints or an answer!

Best regards,
Malo

[mhaut]

Dear Malo,

Sorry to hear that you have the same issues as I have on my system. Unfortunately, I did not find any answer to the problem I am still experiencing running ICEM CFD on ubuntu 13.10. I am sure it has to do with some dynamically link to some library that is not happening well.

Maybe if there is some more activity on this post, it is going to be picked up by someone who solved the issue.

Let's hope for the best!
Cheers,
Martin

[mailord]

Hi Martin,

I found something related on http://askubuntu.com/questions/37582...th-tor-browser.

There is a workaround described how to deal with it. I tried the (not so nice) solution by removing the ibus package. After restart the entry boxes worked again!

Maybe this workaround helps for you as well.

Best,
mailord

[mhaut]

Dear mailord,

Thanks for the info. I will try to see if that works for me as well and report back here.

Many thanks,
Martin

[steinLeat]

I think the problem exists because tcl/tk and some libs combined are not compatible to the ibus interface.

I would not uninstall ibus, because Ubuntu does need it for some critical applications.

Instead you should disable it:

ibus exit
./icemcfd

With that little trick I got the keyboard input restored and correctly working in ICEM CFD.

A note for Ansys Developers: Qt for Fluent and ICEM would be nice.

I tested this on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with the Unity Desktop Environment.

[Gerwang]

Just for your information, if I use ./icemcfd , I can't edit anything
But, if if use sudo ./icemcfd, I can edit everything.
I hope that can help some of you : )

[steinLeat]

Originally Posted by Gerwang

Just for your information, if I use ./icemcfd , I can't edit anything
But, if if use sudo ./icemcfd, I can edit everything.
I hope that can help some of you : )

I don't like that idea, sorry. You should not be root if you want to use daily software on your system. Especially considering that ICEM CFD has enough problems already, it is too dangerous.

Does the "ibus exit" trick not work on your system?

[Gerwang]

Originally Posted by steinLeat

I don't like that idea, sorry. You should not be root if you want to use daily software on your system. Especially considering that ICEM CFD has enough problems already, it is too dangerous.

Does the "ibus exit" trick not work on your system?

Thanks for the tip. The "ibus exit" doesn't work on my system. I even tried to remove ibus. I am not sure what's the problem. But only with "sudo" can it work.

[fgao]

I think you can try "pkill ibus", this works well on my workstation.

Originally Posted by Gerwang

Thanks for the tip. The "ibus exit" doesn't work on my system. I even tried to remove ibus. I am not sure what's the problem. But only with "sudo" can it work.

[ztnuaa]

Originally Posted by steinLeat

I think the problem exists because tcl/tk and some libs combined are not compatible to the ibus interface.

I would not uninstall ibus, because Ubuntu does need it for some critical applications.

Instead you should disable it:

ibus exit
./icemcfd

With that little trick I got the keyboard input restored and correctly working in ICEM CFD.

A note for Ansys Developers: Qt for Fluent and ICEM would be nice.

I tested this on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS with the Unity Desktop Environment.

Thank you very much!

ibus exit
icemcfd

this trick helps me a lot!!
Tested on ANSYS 15.0 ICEM at UBUNTU 14.04 LTS
Before i see you reply I use this

export LANG=en_US
cd /home/zt/software/ansys_inc/v150/icemcfd/linux64_amd/bin
sudo ./icemcfd

which use 'sudo' and should change the working directory every time by hand,really annoying