tips for runing Gambit without Exceed in Win Vista

Fabio Saltara

This can be usefull because only Exceed 2008 runs in Vista. If you don´t have exceed 2008, you must install Xming with the fonts package:

1) Go to http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...roup_id=156984

2) download Xming and Xming-fonts

3) Install Xming

4) Install Xming-fonts ticking all fonts when asked

5) Click on the Gambit Icon. In the options box, add "-dev X11" after "-r 2.4.6 ". So, you must read in the options box "-r 2.4.6 -dev X11"

6)Click "run". Gambit will shortly complain that does not locate exceed, but will work after some seconds.

If you don´t install the Xming-fonts package, Gambit will start working, but as soon as you try to mesh a face or volume it will crash with a sigsegv message.

The "-dev OpenGL" options doesn´t work with Xming.

This procedure also works in Win XP 32 bits. It has worked in Vista Home 32 bits. I have not tryed it in XP 64 or Vista 64.