thanks, that works, bur I think its not the reason, I als got a Warning when I call the vi: i.e. vi test warning: Color name "BACKGROUND" is not defined Wolfgang Nick Koretsky schrieb: > On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 12:44:54 +0100 > schoenfeld <wolfgang.schoenfeld@...> wrote: > >> Hi, >> I installed trinity r14 on an openSuse 13.2 system using the repositories: >> >> http://tde-mirror.yosemite.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/opensuse13.2/trinity-r14/RPMS/x86_64 >> http://tde-mirror.yosemite.net/trinity/trinity/rpm/opensuse13.2/trinity-r14/RPMS/noarch >> >> this works very well! >> but when I tried to run a python script I got the following: >> >> kof@rzbn0052:~> python >> Python 2.7.8 (default, Sep 30 2014, 15:34:38) [GCC] on linux2 >> Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>>> import Tkinter >>>>> master = Tkinter.Tk() >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> >> File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-tk/Tkinter.py", line 1764, in __init__ >> self.tk = _tkinter.create(screenName, baseName, className, >> interactive, wantobjects, useTk, sync, use) >> _tkinter.TclError: unknown color name "BACKGROUND" > I dont know what exactly is going on here, but try adding > > *TkTheme: clam (or default) > > to your ~/.Xresources > > > > -- Wolfgang Schönfeld Helmholtz Center Geesthacht Institute of Coastal Research Max-Planck-Str. 1 21502 Geesthacht Germany Phone: +49 4152 87 1576 Fax: +49 4152 87 1596 Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Zentrum für Material- und Küstenforschung GmbH Max-Planck-Straße 1 I 21502 Geesthacht I Deutschland/Germany Geschäftsführer/Board of Management: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kaysser, Dipl.-Ing. Michael Ganß Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates/Chairman of the Supervisory Board: MinDirig Wilfried Kraus Amtsgericht Lübeck HRB 285 GE (Register Court) Internet: http://www.hzg.de