Maya on linux

[meloncully]

ok, thanks for the help! ............NOT:annoyed: :annoyed:

[somlor]

What window manager are you using? I couldn't figure it out in Gnome, but in KDE it's under preferences somewhere.

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[Razvan]

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=21472&highlight=maya+linux

[beaker]

The manuals tell you how to do it in KDE and Gnome/Sawfish. Read the linux specific install notes.

[meloncully]

i am having trouble. i cant find anywhere the hotkeys for me to disable them



i am using gnome 2.0.1 or whatever and i cant find out where the hotkeys are stored so i can edit them, i even looked on gnome's website

[beaker]

I don't know about mandrake 9, but RH8 uses a window manager called metacity for gnome which is worthless for any customization. Try using Window Maker or KDE or install Sawfish.

[somlor]

KDE :buttrock:

;)

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[meloncully]

oh yeah, i think your right beaker, metacity is what is used for gnome on mandrake 9.

[Taos]

I seriously can't stand KDE, so I actually spent the time to dig around for the answer in Gnome 2.2. It's in a wierd place. Go to your configuration editor (or run 'gconf-editor' from a term). Under apps->metacity->general, change mouse_button_modifier to something else. I just left mine blank. Gets rid of that stupid window move thing. Why this isn't in any of the configuration dialogs is beyond me.

[meloncully]

awesome. thanks alot. yeah, i was hoping that i wouldnt hafta use kde, because kde sux.

and, iwould have never though how much fast maya was in linux than in windows. WOW its alot hella faster.

thnx alot again


taos and others for your hlep :)


:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Taos]

Happy to help. Now that you've converted to the good side, check out my hair plugin since it only works on Linux these days :)

Speaking of KDE. Anybody here on a Dual CPU machine ever notice kdeinit stalling and eating up cpu cycles? It's the reason I stopped using KDE because I was constantly killing that program when it freaked out.

[meloncully]

i cant find the mous_button_modifier or whatever in gconf where you said it was, do you have an idea why?


i will update my gnome and maybe that will fix it.

[Milho]

Nice suprise, in RH9 (metacity) try the preferences in the panel->windows
Now you can change the ALT Key eg to the Win-Start Button :)
No gconf editing needed.


(But as a matter of facts maya has problems with the new glibc...adding a nosysinfo to the linux bootoptions seems to fix this :shrug: )

[arangel]

Guys, I got interested in that "speed improvement" of Linux over Windows. Since I never did much Linux, what would be the best distribution to run Maya? Is it hard at all to config?

Thanks.

Rangel

[Milho]

Maya it selft is easy to install. Linux depends much on what hardware you have and if there are drivers.
But Linux improved a lot IMO.
I have installed RH9 a week ago and am more than satisfied. It got much more easier to setup. Most of the options can be changed with interface instead of shell.

The best distibution is RedHat i guess:
http://www.aliaswavefront.com/en/Community/Support/qualified_hardware/QUAL/maya_50_linux.html

[arangel]

Thanks for the info.
Well, I have a machine with win 2000 already in. Would I have to reformat to get the both OS working on different partitions? Or would it be better to get a sencond HD?
And my graphic card is a Nvidia Geforce 4 Ti.

Rangel

[Milho]

You don't need two HDDs. But Linux needs its own partitions with its ext3 filesystem.
To work with both systems you need to install w2k on a partition and leave the remaining space unformated.
You can define the partitions needed for linux in the installation of redhat. There you get also the options for a bootmanager and you can define the windows system as alternative bootoption.

I would leave some space unformated and make a "shared" fat32 partition, because Linux has problems writing on NTFS and Windows reading ext3. That's how I did it. There are a lot of sources on the net where you find infos about a installation of linux besides windows, also the "strange" linux partitions are explained. ask google ;)

[arangel]

Well, that sure gave me a head start. Thanks.

Rangel

[playmesumch00ns]

I'm using KDE at the mo cos I ballsed up Gnome and now Gnome crashes constantly. Gotta reformat, reinstall. Guess all the linux books mean it when they say "always perform everyday tasks as a normal user, only switch to superuser when you absolutely need to or you may break your OS". he! It's broken!!

Gotta love linux though. mmmm tasty.

[fred22]

Good thread... Us guys should stick together. I would like some maya linux friends for those testy times.

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