Yay Ted! <div><br></div><div>Removing the DISPLAY settings did the trick. Yippeee!!</div><div><br></div><div>This example works fine: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: courier; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; white-space: pre; ">ncl gsun01n.ncl </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: courier; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; white-space: pre; "><br></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: normal; white-space: normal; ">Not convinced that the NCAR Graphics example worked... does it need to work or </span></span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: normal; white-space: normal; "><br>
</span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: normal; white-space: normal; ">can weather maps be scripted in NCL these days? I don't need the fronts or barbs, I just need to overlay 3 or 4 fields - contour map overlays would be fine. </span></span></font>The top example here is encouraging: <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/polar.shtml">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/polar.shtml</a></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: normal; white-space: normal; "><br>
</span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: normal; white-space: normal; ">In either event, thanks for helping me get the engines fired up!!</span></span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="courier"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; white-space: pre;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; line-height: normal; white-space: normal; ">Kirstie</span></span></font></div>
<meta charset="utf-8"><div><br></div><div>PS If anybody is interested, I saw here that NCL doesn't do weather maps (scroll down to the bottom) on an older page: <a href="http://ngwww.ucar.edu/getstarted.html">http://ngwww.ucar.edu/getstarted.html</a> </div>
<div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Ted Mansell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Ted.Mansell@noaa.gov">Ted.Mansell@noaa.gov</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
X11 gets messed up after security updates, and there have been some recently. You can try re-installing the version you have now, or try the latest version.<br>
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Also, if you have a recent version of X11, you should not set DISPLAY at all. It will be automatically set to something like DISPLAY=/tmp/launch-PPNQQM/:0 You might try first removing the DISPLAY settings from your .bashrc<br>
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-- Ted<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On Jul 22, 2010, at 6:05 PM, kirstie stramler wrote:<br>
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hi,<br>
<br>
I've got a MacBook Pro (intel) and am running OS 10.5.8 and need NCL/NCAR Graphics to generate weather maps for a paper (revisions due next month).<br>
<br>
am following the environment configuring instructions on<br>
<a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/get_started.shtml#SetUpEnvironment" target="_blank">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/get_started.shtml#SetUpEnvironment</a><br>
<br>
and have discovered that a semi-dysfunctional X11 ... here are the symptoms:<br>
• when I click on the X11 icon, the icon bounces for a while and top indicates two X11.bin running, then the icon stops bouncing, X11 doesn't open, and top still continues to indicate two X11.bin running<br>
• both .bashrc and .bash_profile contain export DISPLAY=:0.0; export DISPLAY={IP}:0.0; export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0<br>
• Matlab can open X11, however (and top indicates that X11.bin and Xquartz and quartz-wm & xinit are running)<br>
• I am unable to open an X11 XTerm, even in Matlab's X11 (although top indicates their presence)<br>
• The 'About X11' GUI indicates that Matlab is opening XQuartz 2.1.6 (xorg-server 1.4.2-apple33)<br>
• when I go poking around I find that I actually have two versions of X<br>
• the old version (X11R6) is softlinked to the new version (XQuartz)<br>
• when I type open /usr/X11R6/bin/X or open /usr/X11/bin/X it hangs with '/usr/X11/bin/Xquartz ; exit;' and top indicates that X11.bin is running but I am unable to access it<br>
questions are:<br>
<br>
(1) am i having a problem with the DISPLAY variable?<br>
when i invoke host {drivename} I get 2 IP addresses and 2 unknowns & neither IP matches the one indicated by the GUI in System Preferences, which is the one I used (I tried all 3). it would seem that my Mac is having an identity crisis of sorts.<br>
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(2) should I install a newer version of XQuartz or will that mean I can't use Matlab either? No plotting for me!?!<br>
<a href="http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X112.5.2" target="_blank">http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/X112.5.2</a><br>
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will be profoundly appreciative of any assistance<br>
kirstie<br></div></div>
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