# Selecting Cells on Patch Surface

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/selecting-cells-on-patch-surface/4365
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [May 19, 2020, 3:54am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/selecting-cells-on-patch-surface/4365 "2020-05-19T03:54:50Z")
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### Author: ![carl](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ee7513/32.png) [@carl](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/carl)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2020, 6:17pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/selecting-cells-on-patch-surface/4365/5 "2020-05-20T18:17:04Z")

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Mathieu,  
I tried to install paraview on ubuntu run on windows. I get some graphics driver errors which I’ve not been able to solve.

Therefore I tried installing paraview on windows. Eventually I will want to run it on Linux, but at the point I need to do this I should have more support to resolve the driver/environment variable issues i’m having.

I’m having some issues with the windows installation. I had assumed that scripts which worked on the linux (paraFoam) would also work on the windows install, but i’m having problems.

a) a script (“TEST.py”) ran on the linux install now gives the error on the windows install:  
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

> > > File “”, line 152  
> > > spreadSheetView1.BlockSize = 1024L  
> > > ^  
> > > SyntaxError: invalid syntax

b) If I reduce the “TEST.py” script to just importing the data (lines 1-23). When I view the imported data in the GUI the screen turns to this as soon as I hit the view (eye icon). Making it impossible to use any of the menus. I get exactly the same result no matter what size I set the view to (renderView1.ViewSize = [800, 400])

> Blockquote  
> \*\*I’ve got the windows graphics issue resolved with an update of the graphics card driver \*\*  
> **[Weird display resolution](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/weird-display-resolution/3035)**

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f8cec6cd52e80f669aa117158cea3462ded2a7be.png)

On the positive side it seems that the python selection module is not importing correctly. Its just hard for me to visually confirm my script is working with the GUI issue.

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