[ros-users] RVIZ Graph Resource Name Problem

[Brian Gerkey]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:26 AM, shahmi <alfarobi0161 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a problem while  running rviz. It occured when I set the Graph Resource Name as 3dls in which it is not a valid name (because started with a number). But then, I do not know how to get it back working as it is supposed. Any thoughts? Below is the command and its output from my terminal. Thanks in advance.
>
> shah at shah-laptop:~$ rosrun rviz rviz
> [ INFO] [1286784560.678061783]: Loading general config from [/home/shah/.rviz/config]
> [ INFO] [1286784560.683859846]: Loading display config from [/home/shah/.rviz/display_config]
> [ERROR] [1286784565.480174992]: Caught exception while loading: Character [3] is not valid as the first character in Graph Resource Name [3dls].  Valid characters are a-z, A-Z, / and in some cases ~.
> [ INFO] [1286784565.487642807]: Saving general config to [/home/shah/.rviz/config]
> [ INFO] [1286784565.552436489]: Saving display config to [/home/shah/.rviz/display_config]

hi Shahmi,

There may be a ticket to file for this issue, but I suspect that you
can work around the problem by either: deleting
/home/shah/.rviz/display_config; or editing that file to change the
string '3dls' to something else.

	brian.