[Chimera-users] problem with chimera

[Eric Pettersen]

Seems to be a problem with your X11 installation.  Googling for  
"unknown color name" produces an apparent solution:

Tk + unknown color name "Black" - Ubuntu Forums

--Eric

                         Eric Pettersen
                         UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
                         http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu


On Sep 3, 2008, at 2:42 AM, Jean-Paul Armache wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Due to some long needed changes, I have switched to CentOS 5.2.
> Everything was fine for some time, but then, when trying to run  
> Chimera,
> I encountered the following error (applies to all versions of  
> Chimera on
> my harddrive - 1.2470, 1.2492 and 1.2540):
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/opt/chimera/chimera1.2492/share/__main__.py", line 65, in ?
>    value = chimeraInit.init(sys.argv)
>  File "/opt/chimera/chimera1.2492/share/chimeraInit.py", line 302, in
> init
>    splash.create()
>  File "/opt/chimera/chimera1.2492/share/chimera/splash.py", line 17,  
> in
> create
>    splash = Tk.Frame(root, background="white")
>  File "/opt/chimera/chimera1.2492/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py",
> line 2375, in __init__
>    Widget.__init__(self, master, 'frame', cnf, {}, extra)
>  File "/opt/chimera/chimera1.2492/lib/python2.4/lib-tk/Tkinter.py",
> line 1862, in __init__
>    self.tk.call(
> _tkinter.TclError: unknown color name "white"
>
>
> I have tkinter installed, python running properly, everything
> functional. Except for that. Do you know what could be done to fix it?
> Best,
>
> Jean-Paul
>
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