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This help file describes some of the most frequently encountered problems with the oven window system. The recommended solutions are also given. If any of these problems reoccur frequently, you may be doing something wrong. The old name of this file was "problems".

window dies
If you accidently type in an xterm window, you will kill the window and whatever task is running. This is different under openwin than it was under sunview where would suspend the task, but not kill the window. Note that emacs traps as a command and that oven does a "go back" if you type . If you are running oven remotely, then will still force the cl into the background and say "Stopped". To recover, say "fg" at the Unix % prompt.

window gone
If a window dies completely, move the mouse to the gray background area and press the right mouse button to get the "rootmenu" called WORKSPACE. Slide over to select the OVEN menu, then select the window type that you wish to recreate and release the button. Note that this does not "reset" a window; it creates a new one. Be sure that the old window is not still around; otherwise you could wind up with two copies of the same window, which is bad news. Remember the old window could be hidden or closed somewhere. The console cmdtool, mailtool, perfmeter and clock are not oven specific, so you get them from the PROGRAMS menu.

The most frequent window to die is saoimage, which cannot deal with talking to two tasks at once. You therefore should be careful not to run odisp while a ovenc is running.

To intentionally quit a window, move the mouse to the top border of the window and hold down the right mouse button. Select QUIT.

syntax errors
If you start getting lots of syntax errors from an IRAF window, try giving the cl command flpr. flpr may be the most useful IRAF task you ever learn. If flpr doesn't work, recheck the task parameters. Otherwise, log out of IRAF, then restart the window as above.

frozen xterm windows
If a xterm (or gterm) window "freezes up", it could be because you hit 256 characters without hitting a carriage return. This usually occurs when you accidentally lean on the keyboard. The window will just beep at you when you try to enter more characters. fixes this problem.

incomplete plot
Often the graph in the graphics window associated with an xterm will appear incomplete. To flush the graphics buffer and complete the graph select REFRESH from the top of the graphics window.

frozen graphics windows
If the graphics window of an xterm stops accepting keystroke input and just beeps at you, that usually means that it needs a series of REFRESHes and RESETs. This assumes, of course, that you were typing valid keystrokes.

screwy cursor keys
If you are using ograph or something else in the graphics section of a gterm window, and you quit the window while =gcur is active, then the cursor keys will not work in the text part of the gterm window unless you put on caps lock. This can also occur if you control-C out of =gcur. The solution is to go to the submenu in the xterm window by typing and select "Show TEK Window". Once the graph is rexposed, you can exit the =gcur normally with a "q" and everything will be back to normal.

no scrollbar
If you want to see the scroll bar on your xterm window, press in the body of the window and select "Enable Scroll Bar".

mouse button initialization for imcur
When pilot first logs in the mouse buttons are not initialized. This means that if you attempt to access imcur from the oven program to find an oven location, you cannot use the left mouse button to return. Use "t" or "l" or "w" or "b" to return from the imtool. To initialize the mouse button, enter "=imcur" from the blue window. Then type "t" in the imtool to return. Then enter "=imcur" again in the blue window. Then type twice. Now clicking the left mouse button will return the relevant r-theta-z coordinates. The trick does not seem to work with ximtool version 0.4. So, you must use "tlwba" keys to return from imtool.

green boxes on your imtool
After accidentally creating a little green marker box with the mouse in ximtool, you can blow it away by simply moving the mouse pointer to within the marker box and pressing the DEL key on the keyboard.

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