Maks Verver

Hi. This sounds like a problem with SourceForge and how it decides which version to serve you (probably something related to browser User-Agent sniffing). I doubt it's something that can be fixed by the Golly maintainers. Fortunately you can find all files for the project under: https://sourceforge.net/projects/golly/files/golly/ The current Linux version is this one: https://sourceforge.net/projects/golly/files/golly/golly-4.2/golly-4.2-gtk-64bit.tar.gz Also, many Linux distributions ship Golly...

I assume you're using the Linux binary distribution of golly? If so, I'd suggest trying either installing the official golly Debian package (https://packages.debian.org/buster/golly, though version 3.2 is somewhat out of date), or building the latest version from source (instructions are in docs/Build.html).

If the grid size is reasonable small, just enumerating all cells is fairly easy to do with a Lua script. See attachment for an example. Note that the output message shows up in the status bar on the top left (under "Generation=...").

Hi Hactar, I added support for reading multi-state Macrocell files in the HashLife algorithm, as long as only binary cell states (values 0 or 1) are used. This is read support only. The HashLife algorithm still writes the classic format with 8-square leaf cells for backward compatibility and because those files are often smaller (though the difference isn't very large). The commit is here: https://sourceforge.net/p/golly/code/ci/830453f273b952a200cf70e2c916135bbd7c0f67/ If you want to try it out,...

As another datapoint: I can run Golly on Arch Linux using XFCE as the window manager just fine; both the AUR package and the binary distribution work (using wxgtk2,which is wxWidgets 3.0.4 built with GTK 2). If this is related to OpenGL, perhaps the problem is specific to the display drivers used? For refenence, I'm using the intel xorg driver with i965 mesa driver. (If you're unsure: the xdriinfo and glxinfo commands may be useful.) Adam/reporter: which display drivers are you using?

Note wxgtk2 and wxgtk3 both provide wxWidgets 3.0.4; the difference is that they are built against GTK 2 and 3 respectively. The binary golly distribution (which you can download from SourceForge) is built against GTK 2, so if you want to use that one, you need to install wxgtk2. The source distribution can be built against either one, which is why the golly AUR package depends on just wxgtk. On Arch linux, I would suggest installing the AUR package (which will probably pull in wxgtk2 by default)....

This affects fullscreen mode too, not just windowed mode, and like Brandon says,...