SAOImage DS9 Known Issues
12-15-2008 MacOSX Open vs. SAOImage\ DS9.app\Contents\MacOS\ds9
When opening MacOSX DS9 from the command line, it is better to use the OPEN
application as opposed to specifying the binary directly:
# good
% open /Applications/SAOImage\ DS9.app foo.fits
# bad
% /Applications/SAOImage\ DS9.app/Contents/MacOS/ds9 bar.fits
5-15-2008 IRAF and imexamine
The task imexamine can not be used with frame numbers greater
than 9.
2-21-2008 MacOSX PATH environment variable
When you double click on a MacOSX application, it does not parse
any shell startup files, such as ~/.profile. Instead, the
environment
is defined using a special environment file, .MacOSX/environment.plist.
This file can be created with the MacOSX utility /Developer/Applications/PropertyListEditor.app.
For further information, please click here.
12-18-2007 Windows Vista installation
Vista has new restrictions on who can write into the Program Files
folder, which is exactly what DS9 tries to do. Please install DS9 as
the Administrator. This can be done easily after downloading the DS9
.exe setup file by right-clicking on the file in the Downloads Box, and
then choosing "Open containing folder". Right-clicking on the
zipped .exe file will allow you to "Run as administrator".
Alternatively, you can change the security level of the Program Files
folder or install in another location, such as the users Desktop. For
more information please click here.
7-31-2007 Darwin
Darwin requires the use of X11
for MacOSX 10.4 or higher. For information on using SAOImage
DS9 with IRAF under MacOSX, please see The Macintosh IRAF
Web Page
6-9-2005 Linux GNOME and KDE
An issue concerning Linux GNOME and KDE, animated cursors and X windows
resources has come to our attention. There is a bug within the X11
server in which memory is not freed properly if your window manager
uses animated cursors (the watch / hour glass cursor for example). In
this case, a small amount of memory is allocated and not freed each
time DS9 changes the cursor to indicate that it is busy. While the
amount of memory is quite small, it can accumulate over time. For
example, if you where to pan, zoom, and rotate an image over 200 times,
the amount of memory involved becomes quite large and can lead to
instability with the X windows server.
The work-around involves setting the X windows resources database to
enforce the use of standard, non animated cursors:
$ xrdb -merge
Xcursor.theme_core: false
Xcursor.core: true
<cntrl-D>
or set these resources in your .Xresources or .Xdefaults file.
6-29-2004 Plot
In certain cases when the data contains x errorbars, and there values
are quite large, compared to the data itself, and if displayed with
errorbar style 2, the rendering may become corrupted. In this case,
only use style 1.
6-29-2004 IRAF
DS9 now supports IRAF's new IIS image display protocol. However, there
is
one minor problem with the mscred task msczero. Before
using msczero, issue the following command in the cl:
cl> set disable_wcs_maps=""
cl> flpr