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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Linux: bug, feature request, my setup, or shut up and deal with it?

« on: September 06, 2018, 08:54:11 PM »

Chris - Thanks again for the help with the scroll bars. It's made moving around the timing window a lot easier/quicker versus using the shift/ctrl + mouse wheel to move/zoom around. 

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Linux: bug, feature request, my setup, or shut up and deal with it?

« on: August 30, 2018, 07:07:57 PM »

Thanks Chris! I did have both overlay-scrollbar and/or overlay-scrollbar-gtk2 installed. After removing them I was able to start xLights using the new .31 appImage and had both scroll bars in the timing windows. That's going to be a big time saver.  Thanks again for the help.

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Linux: bug, feature request, my setup, or shut up and deal with it?

« on: August 29, 2018, 11:23:06 PM »

From a quick google search this (undefined symbol: ubuntu_gtk_set_use_overlay_scrollbar) looks like a problem caused by my box and from the name might explain the missing scrollbars. I'll look into it more tomorrow. Let me know if you agree and/or know a fix. Thanks!

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Linux: bug, feature request, my setup, or shut up and deal with it?

« on: August 29, 2018, 11:03:20 PM »

So feeling pretty stupid about this one but just realized I'm running 18.04.1 and not 18.10. Still unable to run .30.appImage from terminal. Also not sure why the ppa didn't work if I'm on 18.04.1 - I'll need to look into that. I was able to run .21 from the term however .30 failed with:

tom@Server-705:~/Desktop/xLights appImage$ dir
xLights-2018.30.glibc2.17-x86_64.AppImage
tom@Server-705:~/Desktop/xLights appImage$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:   Ubuntu
Description:   Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
Release:   18.04
Codename:   bionic
tom@Server-705:~/Desktop/xLights appImage$ chmod a+x xLights*.AppImage
tom@Server-705:~/Desktop/xLights appImage$ ./xLights*.AppImage
./src/common/stdpbase.cpp(62): assert ""traits"" failed in Get(): create wxApp before calling this
./src/common/stdpbase.cpp(62): assert ""traits"" failed in Get(): create wxApp before calling this
/tmp/.mount_xLightgxLlRw/usr/bin/xLights: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/modules/liboverlay-scrollbar.so: undefined symbol: ubuntu_gtk_set_use_overlay_scrollbar
tom@Server-705:~/Desktop/xLights appImage$

If that doesn't help I can install and run strace.

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Linux: bug, feature request, my setup, or shut up and deal with it?

« on: August 29, 2018, 08:44:30 PM »

Thanks for the response Chris - You are correct. It did build 18.04 from GIT.

Version: 2018.30.1-1~201808282125~ubuntu18.04.1

This was the first time I built from GIT and that was due to the failing PPA build. The PPA is what I normally use and have been doing so for the past 1.5-2 years. On ANY of the versions of xLights I've had on Ubuntu (16.04-18.10) I've never had the horizontal or vertical scroll bars in the timings window. So ultimately that's what I'm trying to figure out.

As far as appImage - I can run the MuseScore appImage as demonstrated on appimage.org. When I use the xLights appImage the 'Would you like to integrate' and 'Disable question?' windows will open but nothing happens after that. Doesn't seem to matter which answers I choose.

EDIT - So I tried some older appImage versions - looks like I can get some of the older appImages to run but not the newer ones. I was successful running the 2018.10, 2018.20 & 2018.21 appImages but anything past .21 would not run. Failed to run .22,.23,.24,.25,.27,.29,30 appImages. Just nothing executes.

OH MY GOD  - I ACTUALLY have a horizontal & vertical scroll bar when using the 2018.21 appImage. Seriously, in almost 2 years that is the first time I've seen scroll bars in the timing window!

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Re: Linux: bug, feature request, my setup, or shut up and deal with it?

« on: August 28, 2018, 09:38:54 PM »

Thanks for letting me know and I see you do have horizontal & vertical scroll bars. I'm VERY jealous.

I usually use the PPA however I had a problem getting 2018.30 to install from the PPA so I ended up building it from git. I haven't been able to get the appImage to run on Ubuntu. Maybe I'll need to look into that.

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Bugs in xLights/Nutcracker / Linux: bug, feature request, my setup, or shut up and deal with it?

« on: August 24, 2018, 09:40:10 PM »

Running xLights (currently 2018.30) on Ubuntu 18.10 now but I've had the same issue with various versions of xLights on various versions of Ubuntu. I've asked about this on the facebook group with no response and have sent message to Chris with no response so I'm trying here.

When sequencing a song - should there be horizontal & vertical scroll bars in the timing area? There are when I run on my laptop with Windows but I mainly use my desktop linux box which has never had them. I've got scroll bars for the mini-windows (color, layer bending, etc) but not in the timing area. The missing vertical scroll bar doesn't bother me much but the lack of the horizontal scroll when zoomed in on a song is getting old.

Is this normal for other linux users, something incorrect with my setup or do I just need to deal with it when running on linux?

Thanks,

Tom