Hi
I know this has been asked before, but I can't get it to work.
I run Houdini on Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity enabled. Within Houdini I'm not able to drag and drop parameters or rearange parameters in a digital asset. It seems quite clear that something is capturing the ‘ hold left mouse button’ action.
The question remains how do I make it stop doing so. I really like Unity and I wonder if someone has mananged to get it to work with Houdini?
Ubuntu 12.04 - Drag and drop doesn't work
11193 14 4-
- houdinick
- Member
- 164 posts
- Joined: April 2008
- Offline
Nick Nimble
VFX blog - http://www.nicknimble.com [nicknimble.com]
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/nicknimble [facebook.com]
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Nick_Nimble [twitter.com]
VFX blog - http://www.nicknimble.com [nicknimble.com]
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/nicknimble [facebook.com]
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Nick_Nimble [twitter.com]
-
- houdinick
- Member
- 164 posts
- Joined: April 2008
- Offline
I haven't fixed it yet, how ever I've found the gconf-editor which might be part of the solution. Does anyone know which option is causing the drag and drop issues in Houdini?
Tip:
If you go in gconf-editor to apps/metacity/general and type ‘sloppy’ in the focus_mode, you get auto focus, which is nice if you happen to have a multi monitor setup.
Tip:
If you go in gconf-editor to apps/metacity/general and type ‘sloppy’ in the focus_mode, you get auto focus, which is nice if you happen to have a multi monitor setup.
Nick Nimble
VFX blog - http://www.nicknimble.com [nicknimble.com]
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/nicknimble [facebook.com]
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Nick_Nimble [twitter.com]
VFX blog - http://www.nicknimble.com [nicknimble.com]
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/nicknimble [facebook.com]
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Nick_Nimble [twitter.com]
-
- halfdan
- Member
- 599 posts
- Joined: May 2011
- Offline
houdinick
Hi
I know this has been asked before, but I can't get it to work.
I run Houdini on Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity enabled. Within Houdini I'm not able to drag and drop parameters or rearange parameters in a digital asset. It seems quite clear that something is capturing the ‘ hold left mouse button’ action.
The question remains how do I make it stop doing so. I really like Unity and I wonder if someone has mananged to get it to work with Houdini?
Which version of Houdini are you running?
I run Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop and haven't had any issues with drag'n'drop in 12.1.
There was a bug fixed, a while back, in H12 where minimized windows were being considered for drop targets and sometimes their maximized position would “obscure” the Houdini window. This was because X11 doesn't change the windows' geometry when they get minimized; it just sets a flag saying that they are.
Halfdan Ingvarsson
Senior Developer
Side Effects Software Inc
Senior Developer
Side Effects Software Inc
-
- houdinick
- Member
- 164 posts
- Joined: April 2008
- Offline
I'm running 12.1.33, do you run the new gnome shell interface as well?
Nick Nimble
VFX blog - http://www.nicknimble.com [nicknimble.com]
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/nicknimble [facebook.com]
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Nick_Nimble [twitter.com]
VFX blog - http://www.nicknimble.com [nicknimble.com]
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/nicknimble [facebook.com]
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Nick_Nimble [twitter.com]
-
- halfdan
- Member
- 599 posts
- Joined: May 2011
- Offline
-
- pbowmar
- Member
- 7046 posts
- Joined: July 2005
- Offline
This happens on most Linux distros. On Centos 5.2 and Suse 12.1 (former using KDE 3.3 latter using KDE 4.something) you need to resize the main Houdini window (I have double click the title bar set to do that) then it will work for a while longer until it fails again for some reason.
It's been like that since 11 I believe or even 10, I can't remember. Can't reproduce it to get it fixed![](/static/djangobb_forum/img/smilies/sad.png)
Cheers,
Peter B
It's been like that since 11 I believe or even 10, I can't remember. Can't reproduce it to get it fixed
![](/static/djangobb_forum/img/smilies/sad.png)
Cheers,
Peter B
Cheers,
Peter Bowmar
____________
Houdini 20.5.262 Win 10 Py 3.11
Peter Bowmar
____________
Houdini 20.5.262 Win 10 Py 3.11
-
- houdinick
- Member
- 164 posts
- Joined: April 2008
- Offline
That sounds like the other untraceable bug where Houdini confuses the window order.
Unfortunately resizing the main window doesn't work in my case. I can never drag and drop. I do have to add that for instance when I drag a shader in the viewport on a object, then I see a cursor that has a pointer a dotted box and a circle with diagonal line aka ‘not permitted’.
Unfortunately resizing the main window doesn't work in my case. I can never drag and drop. I do have to add that for instance when I drag a shader in the viewport on a object, then I see a cursor that has a pointer a dotted box and a circle with diagonal line aka ‘not permitted’.
Nick Nimble
VFX blog - http://www.nicknimble.com [nicknimble.com]
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/nicknimble [facebook.com]
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Nick_Nimble [twitter.com]
VFX blog - http://www.nicknimble.com [nicknimble.com]
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/nicknimble [facebook.com]
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Nick_Nimble [twitter.com]
-
- koen
- Member
- 792 posts
- Joined: April 2020
- Offline
-
- houdinick
- Member
- 164 posts
- Joined: April 2008
- Offline
Hi Coen,
Good one, that didn't came to mind. Unfortunately it didn't work…
Its a new install of Ubuntu 12.04 and it has been like this from the start.
SESI develops on Ubuntu, so I figured that they should have run into this problem already.
Good one, that didn't came to mind. Unfortunately it didn't work…
Its a new install of Ubuntu 12.04 and it has been like this from the start.
SESI develops on Ubuntu, so I figured that they should have run into this problem already.
Nick Nimble
VFX blog - http://www.nicknimble.com [nicknimble.com]
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/nicknimble [facebook.com]
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Nick_Nimble [twitter.com]
VFX blog - http://www.nicknimble.com [nicknimble.com]
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/nicknimble [facebook.com]
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Nick_Nimble [twitter.com]
-
- sabotage3d
- Member
- 28 posts
- Joined: July 2005
- Offline
-
- houdinick
- Member
- 164 posts
- Joined: April 2008
- Offline
Yet another clever solution :-)
Unfortunately it doesn't help in my particular case :-(
If I compare it to how Houdini runs on my Macbook Pro, the mouse pointer is different, which would suggest that Houdini knows that drag and drop doesn't work.
Which leaves me wondering how to solve this. I sense its a ubuntu problem.
Unfortunately it doesn't help in my particular case :-(
If I compare it to how Houdini runs on my Macbook Pro, the mouse pointer is different, which would suggest that Houdini knows that drag and drop doesn't work.
Which leaves me wondering how to solve this. I sense its a ubuntu problem.
Nick Nimble
VFX blog - http://www.nicknimble.com [nicknimble.com]
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/nicknimble [facebook.com]
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Nick_Nimble [twitter.com]
VFX blog - http://www.nicknimble.com [nicknimble.com]
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/nicknimble [facebook.com]
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Nick_Nimble [twitter.com]
-
- SreckoM
- Member
- 379 posts
- Joined: Dec. 2006
- Offline
-
- houdinick
- Member
- 164 posts
- Joined: April 2008
- Offline
The workaround that I found is to switch from Gnome-Unity (the default) to ‘Gnome 3 Classic’ or ‘Gnome 3 fallback’. It still annoys me that I can't get it to work in Unity, but…
Nick Nimble
VFX blog - http://www.nicknimble.com [nicknimble.com]
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/nicknimble [facebook.com]
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Nick_Nimble [twitter.com]
VFX blog - http://www.nicknimble.com [nicknimble.com]
Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/nicknimble [facebook.com]
Twitter - https://twitter.com/Nick_Nimble [twitter.com]
-
- pbowmar
- Member
- 7046 posts
- Joined: July 2005
- Offline
-
- nanocell
- Member
- 10 posts
- Joined: Sept. 2008
- Offline
I have found something interesting regarding this problem. I was experiencing the same issue that I couldn't drag / drop parameters. I discovered that this would happen when the Parameter Interface Editor is above / on top of a Houdini window. If I moved the editor off to the side so that it is on top of the desktop it works fine. Moving back over a Houdini window breaks it again.
Its almost as if Houdini / KDE gets confused about the order of the windows and thinks that I'm dragging parameters onto the Houdini window below instead of onto the Parameter Interface Editor.
Maybe this will help a bit?
CheerZ,
Van Aarde.
Its almost as if Houdini / KDE gets confused about the order of the windows and thinks that I'm dragging parameters onto the Houdini window below instead of onto the Parameter Interface Editor.
Maybe this will help a bit?
CheerZ,
Van Aarde.
-
- Quick Links