Re: Google Earth 7.0 (beta) and Space Navigator

[Andrew Leahy]

SpaceNavigator works okay for me OSX and Win7. what's your platform?

With win7 sometimes I have to start the SpaceNav properties panel first.


Also notice there has been a change to SpaceNav control with Win7 and GE7.

With GE6 the SpaceNavigator would control Google Earth even if Earth didn't have window focus.
This was VERY useful when I use Earth as a master controller (viewsync) for other applications on the same computer
eg. for having SpaceNav control in Earth Plugin.

This behaviour has stopped in GE7, and is mighty annoying, but I understand that probably no one else would care.
And it's more "correct" that Earth stopped responding. I keep a GE6 hanging around for this purposes now.
Not sure this is worth a bug report?

Andrew
eResearch | UWS

On 20 November 2012 05:40, cmdln <cmdl...@gmail.com> wrote:

Does anyone know if there are problems with GE 7.0 and the Space Navigator? I just upgraded GE to the latest version on all my LG nodes and now the navigator no longer works. Regular control by mouse is still OK.

[Andrew Leahy]

eeek... thought this was another list, ignore my whine at the end.

obviously youre running Linux?

[Jason Holt]

Works fine for us with earth 7.

[cmdln]

Sorry, I thought I had deleted that post. It was just an oversight on my part -- the customized drivers.ini file was overwritten when I installed the new version of GE, so the settings for the space navigator and viewsync were lost. It's fine now. I guess that's what happens when you haven't worked on the LG for a year!

I did have another question though: in the standard setup, why isn't the home directory mounted via NFS on the slave nodes? It seems to be a pain to have to copy files onto each system all the time.

[ki...@endpoint.com]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 09:24:15AM -0800, cmdln wrote:
> Sorry, I thought I had deleted that post. It was just an oversight on my part
> -- the customized drivers.ini file was overwritten when I installed the new
> version of GE, so the settings for the space navigator and viewsync were lost.
> It's fine now. I guess that's what happens when you haven't worked on the LG
> for a year!
>
> I did have another question though: in the standard setup, why isn't the home
> directory mounted via NFS on the slave nodes? It seems to be a pain to have to
> copy files onto each system all the time.

Google Earth does caching and locking per-user within the home directory. So
you might be able to do some selective home-dir mounting via NFS, but that
could get even more tricky than the current standard setup (i.e., the scripts
and configuration published on code.google.com for Linux systems) which is
really quite automatic and achieves a known-good configuration for Earth at
each launch.

Also, if the home directory and configurations were shared via NFS, then
you'd lose the ability to have different configurations for each instance of
Earth via variations in myplaces.kml, GECommonSettings.conf, and
GoogleEarthPlus.conf

For many of our LG systems, however, we do NFS mounts for sharing video,
images, and kml content between systems.

Always good to keep brainstorming questions like this. We always want to
improve the standard setup.

Thanks
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Kiel Christofferson
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