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Unable to type into APDL and APDL launcher fields and text boxes when running on Linux.

Tagged: 2019 R3, Installation/Licensing/Systems, Mechanical APDL - SYS, Product Specific Issue
    • March 17, 2023 at 9:01 am
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      Participant

      The issue is APDL and IBUS do not play nicely together. A quick way to work around this for now is to change the XMODIFIERS environment variable prior to launch. For instance in CentOS/RHEL/BASH: export XMODIFIERS=”@im=none” Then launcher the APDL Launcher and you should now be able to type in the text fields. For completeness, you will encounter the issue if XMODIFIERS is set to “@im=ibus”.

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