Cannot select atoms in VESTA on my laptop

[Rahim Zaman]

I am having a problem selecting atoms/structures on my new Dell Inspiron 14 7420 2-in-1 laptop (Windows 11). Whenever I select an atom or polyhedron, it randomly selects another one. I have tested this on several other computers and it works without issue. I tried every VESTA version, but the same issue persists on only my laptop. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Koichi Momma]

It must be due to a bug in graphics driver. Please try updating graphics driver (if there is newer version).

Rahim Zaman wrote on 2023/10/25 7:17:

I am having a problem selecting atoms/structures on my new Dell Inspiron 14 7420 2-in-1 laptop (Windows 11). Whenever I select an atom or polyhedron, it randomly selects another one. I have tested this on several other computers and it works without issue. I tried every VESTA version, but the same issue persists on only my laptop. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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[Rui Ning Wang]

I am having a similar (same?) issue. When I try to select two or three atoms to measure the distance or angle, it keeps selecting the first atom I click, no matter where I click afterward. I guess for the moment I will be taking screenshots and measuring the angles in ImageJ....

I'm on a X1Carbon Thinkpad gen11, with Windows 11, a 13th Gen Intel core i5-1335U, and an Intel Iris Xe Graphics integrated GPU. And yes my drivers are all up-to-date.

[Rui Ning Wang]

Maybe I should also mention, I installed the 64-bit Edition v.3.5.8. Maybe I'll try to install the other version for a spin.

[Rui Ning Wang]

Nope! 32.bit version gives me the same bug.

[Garrett Zeff]

Same issue on a thinkpad with an i7.

[Rahim Zaman]

I updated all my drivers, but VESTA is still having the same issue on my laptop.

[xiuxian young]

Hi, I recently encountered this problem too. Has this issue been resolved?

[Rahim Zaman]

I am still having this issue. I noticed that atom selection only does not work when I try to select another atom while another is selected (deselecting the original atom, then clicking on another works). Polyhedral selection does not work at all, as the same one or two polyhedra are selected whenever I click on any of them (regardless of it being the initial or subsequent selection).

[Nicolas Emery]

Dear all,

I experience the same problem. It select a random atom/polyhedra and remain on it wherever I click.

I have a Intel i7 HP laptop running with Windows 11

Best regards,

Nicolas

[Giorgia Confalonieri]

Did someone solve it? If I choose polyhedra style then I cannot anymore select and delete just one of them.

[Lloyd Bumm]

I have been having the problem on 3.5.7 and 3.5.8. I'm on Win 11 with the latest driver and OS updates. It's not that it doesn't work, rather it takes 15-30 s for the selection to occur. I also sometimes observe a similar sluggish response clicking on the menu icons. 

[Brad Gibbons]

Has anyone found a solution for this bug? I am having the same issues with selecting polyhedra, it really limits VESTA as a visulization tool.

[Abdullah Al Abdulghani]

I also have the same issue using VESTA 3.5.8 (64x) on a computer running Windows 11 Home (23H2) with the following specs:

13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-13700   2.10 GHz

32.0 GB RAM

Intel(R) UHD Graphics 770 (driver version: 32.0.101.5768)

Thank you!

[Edyta]

I had a similar problem but it disappeared after I changed the projection settings. Go to View > Overall Appearance > Projection > Perspective (near). I hope it will fix your issues with selecting atoms as well. 

[Dlhethern]

I just tried changing the projection perspective to near and it did not fix the issue. 

Thanks for the idea though.

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[Rahim Zaman]

I tried the perspective fix, but unfortunately, I am still unable to select atoms or polyhedra.

[Abdullah Al Abdulghani]

Thank you Edyta for the suggestion. It did not fix my selection issue, though. I think it is dependent on the graphic card and its software. My older laptop with an integrated Intel HD Graphics 630 has no issues with VESTA.

[Kais, Salim]

Hello guys,

Maybe you need to check if the '' libs '' on this post are already installed on your laptop. Follow the link :

https://groups.google.com/g/vesta-discuss/c/c1fbWTTKkUo/m/ykN_AYJYBgAJ

My bests,

Salim

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[王啸宇]

All guys, Im using thinkbook16 in the same problem, but I just deal with that.

I think that must be a graphic card problem, so I use control panel to change the working status of VESTA, just use the high performance graphic card to run it.

Now I can select the atoms, hope it works in your laptops.

[Dan K]

Hey y'all,

I am trying to measure between atoms, but I don't get a line to calculate the distance. 

Before that I tried to install different versions of Vesta. If I install a version higher than 2013, the program does not start at all (but gives a window and exits). 

Characteristics of my laptop Lenovo Y70-70 touch :

i7 4710HQ.

GTX860M 4Gb

[Kais, Salim]

Hello guys,

Maybe you need to check if the '' libs '' on this post are already installed on your laptop. Follow the link :

https://groups.google.com/g/vesta-discuss/c/c1fbWTTKkUo/m/ykN_AYJYBgAJ

My bests,

Salim

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[Dan K]

Unfortunately, error appears when i try to run vesta...
ASSERT INFO:
../src/unix/glx11.cpp(672): assert ""Assert failure"" failed in InitXVisualInfo(): wxGLAttributes object is empty.
I use Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS
BACKTRACE:
[1] VectorD::Init(float const*, int)
[2] wxScopedPtr<wxGraphicsContext>::get() const
[3] wxScopedPtr<wxGraphicsContext>::get() const
[4] VectorD::Init(float const*, int)
[5] wxScopedPtr<wxGraphicsContext>::get() const
[6] wxScopedPtr<wxGraphicsContext>::get() const
[7] VectorD::Init(float const*, int)
[8] VectorD::Init(float const*, int)
[9] VectorD::Init(float const*, int)
[10] vxDialog::SaveLayoutAndDestroy(int, int)
[11] wxScopedPtr<wxDir>::get() const
[12] __libc_start_main

[Rahim Zaman]

It definitely seems like a problem with certain graphics cards, regardless of whether or not the drivers are updated. Is there any way to fix this issue on the Windows version of VESTA without having to get a new PC?

[Xinzhe Yang]

same issue with the latest intel ultra 9 285H CPU and Arc 140T GPU

[Salim Kais]

Someone may find this interesting because of some issues encountered with OpenGL libraries and others related to this topic :

I found this comment on < github > that helped me a lot

>> Begin 

mampaiva

on Apr 30, 2024

I solved this problem by adding the previous lts repository and installing version 4.0.
For this I changed the file sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu.sources
Add the follow line:
`Types: deb
URIs: http://br.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
Suites: jammy noble-updates noble-backports
Components: main restricted universe multiverse
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg

Types: deb
URIs: http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
Suites: jammy-security
Components: main restricted universe multiverse
Signed-By: /usr/share/keyrings/ubuntu-archive-keyring.gpg`

then update the repositories with apt update and go to synaptic to search and install the correct version of libwebkit2gtk

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Good luck.

[Tong Yang]

I have been encountering the same problem on my laptop (windows os). The strange thing is that the problem would vanish when I connect my laptop to an external monitor (extended mode) and have vesta opened on that monitor screen. 

Regards,

Tong

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[AHMED ABD ELLATIFFE]

https://youtu.be/4CG6jeduXcQ?si=TEbBKZk-_isWS3Ln