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1 year ago @TheChymera this is a limitation of your OS support for GTK2, not a problem with MRIcroGL. You will see this delay for any GTK2-based application.
It might be worth getting more details about your distribution. As a first pass, have you considered upgrading your distribution? This problem was common several years ago when there was a push for applications to use GTK3, deprecating GTK2. Most distributions now provide better backward compatibility for GTK2 based apps. This is likely a sign that you are using an old distribution. Note while we could provide MRIcroGL compiled for GTK3, it would inherently degrade the quality of the visualization. Unfortunately, GTK3 never enabled multi-sampling for OpenGL components so the visual quality is poor relative to GTK2.
You can probably find a solution for your distribution by doing a web search with your distribution name, for example if you use Ubuntu you could search for:
ubuntu launch gtk2 dbus delayWhich would suggest a solution:
sudo apt-get install appmenu-gtk2-module
sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-moduleAnother option would be to use the QT5 widgets instead of the GTK2 widgetset. See the release notes named MRIcroGL_Linux_Installation.txt that come with the distribution. The challenge is that QT5 support is recent, and several older distributions are frozen with somewhat limited support. The contents of the installation notes are:
Two versions of MRIcroGL are provided:
1.) "MRIcroGL" uses the GTK2 widgetset. This is recommended for Ubuntu 19.04 and earlier. For Ubuntu 19.10 or later you will need to install GTK2 to run this version (run "sudo apt-get install appmenu-gtk2-module" and then restart).
2.) "MRIcroGL_QT" uses the QT5 widgetset. This is recommended for Ubuntu 19.10 or later.
- On Ubuntu 19.10 or later you should run "sudo apt install libqt5pas1" to install the supporting libraries.
- QT5 is not well supported on Ubuntu 16.04 and earlier.
- The QT5 header library provided for Ubuntu 18.04 has issues. If you do want to use "MRIcroGL_QT" on Ubuntu 18.04 you will need to run the following commands:
wget -O- http://neuro.debian.net/lists/bionic.us-nh.libre | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/neurodebian.sources.list
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver hkp://pool.sks-keyservers.net:80 0xA5D32F012649A5A9
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install libqt5pas1
If this does not work, try installing the .deb (if you are using a Deiban-based distribtuion like Ubuntu) or .rpm (if you are using a Red Hat distribution) file found here:
https://github.com/davidbannon/libqt5pas/releases/tag/v1.2.9
Troubleshooting.
If you have problems, see
https://www.mccauslandcenter.sc.edu/mricrogl/troubleshooting
MRIcroGL requires a Graphics card and driver that supports OpenGL Core 3.3 or later. You can find out about your graphics card and driver with the following commands:
lspci | grep VGA
lsmod | grep "kms\|drm"
find /dev -group video
cat /proc/cmdline
find /etc/modprobe.d/
cat /etc/modprobe.d/*kms*
ls /etc/X11/xorg.conf
glxinfo | grep -i "vendor\|rendering"
grep LoadModule /var/log/Xorg.0.log
If "lspci | grep VGA" lists your graphics card as "NVidia" but "glxinfo | grep -i "vendor\|rendering"" lists your driver as Mesa or "nouveau" you should consider upgrading to the genuine NVidia graphics driver which will provide much better performance:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nouveau-summer-2018&num=1
fsl_anat -i "/home/chris/Ref/In/T1.nii" -o /home/chris/Ref/Out6/struc
TheChymera
So when I start MRIcroGL I get a blank window, after which I can either wait a while or just close it, and the viewer starts up normally.
I also see this in the command line:
Is this the issue I'm getting? If so, what file does it need exactly? that's as far as I can tell a specific package name from Debian or Ubuntu.
Also, for reference I tried both
=mricrogl-1.2.20211007and=mricrogl-1.2.20220720, both of them with eitheror
all 4 with the same results.