Problem with Google Earth 6

diti1 · May 20, 2011, 9:06pm

I installed Google Earth 6 on Suse 11.4 KDE4.6.3 but fonts look particularly ugly. I moved all libQt*.so to backup directory. Now Google Earth will not start. Can you help me?

mahol · May 20, 2011, 9:26pm

Sorry cannot help you, but it would be better not to use a title like “Problem with”.

martin_helm · May 20, 2011, 9:51pm

diti1 wrote:

> I moved all libQt*.so to backup directory.
What on earth made you think you should do that?

diti1 · May 20, 2011, 10:06pm

Sorry, I made a mistake. Мost likely title will be changed.

hcvv · May 20, 2011, 10:09pm

What about moving them back in place again?

diti1 · May 20, 2011, 10:11pm

In http://en.opensuse.org/Google_Earth wrote:
It seems that the Qt libraries shipping with Google Earth are not compatible with the rest of openSUSE. Try moving all libQt*.so files from /opt/google-earth to some backup directory.

diti1 · May 20, 2011, 10:34pm

I returned them back again and the GoogleEarth works.

hcvv · May 20, 2011, 11:04pm

Are you satisfied now, or do you still have some problem? When yes, please start a new thread with a GOOD title (the one I made above is probably also not quite good).

martin_helm · May 20, 2011, 10:49pm

diti1 wrote:

>
> In http://en.opensuse.org/Google_Earth wrote:
> It seems that the Qt libraries shipping with Google Earth are not
> compatible with the rest of openSUSE. Try moving all libQt*.so files
> from /opt/google-earth to some backup directory.
>
Ok that makes it clear, but do not think anyone can guess that. When you
write you moved all qt libs, I thought about the files in /usr.

You are right I checked the newest google earth and the fonts are incredibly
ugly and too large. I don’t like that myself so I will try to find out what
this is.

martin_helm · May 20, 2011, 11:12pm

Ok a bi google and experimenting shows that google-earth takes a -fn
parameter on the command line like that


google-earth -fn '*-*-medium-r-normal--10-120-75-75-p-o-iso8859-1'

which really has an effect. It does not look good, but that means we need to
find a proper font and can set it this way.

diti1 · May 21, 2011, 10:16am

I did this:

google-earth -fn ‘--medium-r-normal–10-120-75-75-p-o-iso8859-1’

no effect

here’s how it looks: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8036731/googleearth.jpeg

martin_helm · May 21, 2011, 3:37pm

diti1 wrote:

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> I did this:
>
> google-earth -fn ‘--medium-r-normal–10-120-75-75-p-o-iso8859-1’
>
> no effect
>
> here’s how it looks: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8036731/googleearth.jpeg
>
You have a problem with your graphics card, which are you using and which
driver! The textures are not shown, are they shown without the - fn … ?
What language are you running? That was just an example for my machine where
I use the german locale, the iso8859-1 might not be correct for the font you
need or the font does not exist on your machine.
The command xlsfonts shows all of them.
The locale in use can be seen if you tell the output of


echo $LANG

diti1 · May 23, 2011, 1:00pm

The textures are not shown without the - fn.
My language is Bulgarian (Cyrillic alphabet).

echo $LANG
bg_BG.UTF-8

diti1 · May 23, 2011, 1:24pm

I tried these hints: Fonts looks bad, almost unreadable, running Google Earth 6 on Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 2 - Google Earth Help
GE6 not start

Before when using GE5 and eliminated all libQt* -> GE5 worked.

martin_helm · May 23, 2011, 1:28pm

diti1 wrote:

>
> The textures are not shown without the - fn.
> My language is Bulgarian (Cyrillic alphabet).
>
> echo $LANG
> bg_BG.UTF-8
>
Before we go into the language issue. What graphics card do you have and
which driver.
Because if I understand you right, your google-earth is more or less useless
if it does not show the textures at all.
But if you want a quick shot for the language replace the iso8859-1 in the
font name with iso8859-5
google-earth -fn ‘--medium-r-normal–10-120-75-75-p-o-iso8859-5’
you may want to check also another font
google-earth -fn ‘-misc-dejavu sans-medium-i-normal–10-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-5’

The command xlsfonts shows you what exists on your machine.

diti1 · May 23, 2011, 5:15pm

My graphics card is nVidia GeForce2 MX/MX 400. Driver: NVIDIA 96.43.19

Yes it is true my GE6 is useless.

I tried several different fonts. Here’s the result: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8036731/googleearth1.jpeg
It is clear that the problem is with Cyrillic fonts.

martin_helm · May 23, 2011, 5:56pm

diti1 wrote:

>
> My graphics card is nVidia GeForce2 MX/MX 400. Driver: NVIDIA 96.43.19
>
> Yes it is true my GE6 is useless.
>
> I tried several different fonts. Here’s the result:
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8036731/googleearth1.jpeg
> It is clear that the problem is with Cyrillic fonts.
>
I have to translate that now from german to english so it may be not
precise:
Start google earth and in the menu in Tools->Options there is a check box
which should read something like “Graphics mode”, “Safe mode” or similar.
Check that box.
I hope you can read your fonts if you start google earth without any -fn
setting to make that setting?

diti1 · May 23, 2011, 6:20pm

This is terrible. There is no menu bar.>:( >:( >:(

martin_helm · May 23, 2011, 6:58pm

diti1 wrote:

>
> This is terrible. There is no menu bar.>:( >:( >:(
>
Did anything work before you tried to replace the libraries?

Remove it completely!


sudo rm /usr/local/bin/googleearth
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/google-earth

Install it again.
Is the menu bar available?

diti1 · May 23, 2011, 8:29pm

I removed it completely. Then I uninstalled it and installed it. No menu bar.