Analyze-->create surface

General Discussion
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I am finding that this feature is working in the windows version 2.0.0, but not on the linux appimage version. On the appimage version when one tries to create a surface one gets a big blue square covering the molecule. It seems to work fine under windows.

John

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Thanks - it would help greatly to know:

  • what surface you’re trying to create on the AppImage
  • a screenshot of what you see
  • what molecule
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I tried it on all the surfaces (VDW, solvent included, solvent excluded, and color by ep. The blue thing varied in size (2 sizes one filled most of the screen but was the same shape as the smaller. I screenshot the smaller. I used benzene for the example, but it does this for everything I tried. Again this is for the appimage Avogadro running under Fedora linux 43

benzene-solvent_accessible
benzene-solvent_accessible1572×1034 99.6 KB

benzene-1
benzene-11562×1037 105 KB

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If you click for the options for the Surfaces display style, do you have it set for Volumetric?

The volumetric style works by painting textures onto a box around the molecule, rather than generating isosurfaces.

Fundamentally, I suspec there’s an issue with your graphics driver. You said you’re using the Linux AppImage:

  • what graphics card and driver are you using?
  • I haven’t used Fedora in ages .. is it still using X or has it switched to Wayland?