<div dir="ltr"><div>Brian,</div><div><br></div><div>We had seen this issue occasionally a few years back with systems that had builtin Intel graphics, and most often on Ubuntu systems (I was never convinced it had anything to do with Ubuntu, and everything to do with the Intel graphics drivers). The behavior is part of a plot gets drawn, but it's as though the last "buffer worth" does not get flushed. And this only happens when drawing to an X11 window -- all other file-based workstation outputs are OK. There is note this in the FAQ:</div><div><br></div><div><font size="1"><i>When I send my NCL graphics to an X11 window, only a partial image is drawn.</i>
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sure you have their latest graphics drivers installed. <br></font></p><p><font size="1"><br></font></p><p>This issue hasn't been reported very much in more recent years. Since your machine has an NVIDIA GPU, I don't know what to recommend. The default out-of-the-box, open source graphics driver for NVIDIA GPU's is nouveau, and I have to think that's what most of our users go with. NVIDIA offers its own proprietary driver, but it takes considerably more awareness to i) install it, and ii) disable the nouveau driver. If you feel up to the task, that might be a place to start. I'd also note that the latest NCL rev is v6.2.2 -- perhaps its worth upgrading to that.</p><p>I hope that helps and wish I had a better answer...</p><p>Rick</p><p><br></p></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 12:56 PM Brian Thomas <<a href="mailto:brian.thomas@washburn.edu">brian.thomas@washburn.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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I’m using Mint 19.3, which is an Ubuntu derivative. I was on openSUSE before. I have Intel CPUs but an Nvidia graphics card. The NCL version is 6.4.0
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<div>I’ve been using NCL for a while and been able to do a lot with it, but I recently changed linux OS flavors and just discovered that my scripts are now producing empty plots. This is the case for different data
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<div>The plot frame, labels and color bars are drawn, but the inside of the plot is empty.
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<div>I’ve tried removing and re-installing NCL, which didn’t help.</div>
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