#3 text window flickers on Plasma

[Christian Lehmann]

Kubuntu 18.04, Plasma 5.12.7, Bluefish 2.2.10:
I have a file loaded into Bluefish. If the cursor (not just hovering graphic cursor, but text cursor located by click) is in the text window, the window content flickers/shakes. This stops on two conditions:

• It stops as soon as the cursor is moved out of the text window and located (by click) elsewhere.
• After about 10 seconds, it stops by itself. However, flickering restarts on each new click and on each keyboard strike, thus, while typing in text.
  Flickering does not happen if the cursor is in the files list panel or in the directory tree panel.
  Please consider that writing under such conditions is a strain.

[Olivier Sessink]

I don't have a computer with KDE running. However, googling for the problem it seems to be related to plasma and GTK3. You can build Bluefish with gtk2, possibly that helps?

[Christian Lehmann]

Am 24.03.19 um 21:32 schrieb Olivier Sessink:

I don't have a computer with KDE running. However, googling for the
problem it seems to be related to plasma and GTK3. You can build
Bluefish with gtk2, possibly that helps?

I have never built any application on Linux (this is also why I did not
react to your earlier request to test a code modification), so I need
some help with it. The most up-to-date instruction appears to be

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/postlfs/bluefish.html

However, there is an older instruction

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1426958&page=2

which mentions a lot more commands to be issued. So the first question
is whether the more recent instruction is really complete.

Second question: I see that the command .configure may be followed by
parameters. So how do I set the parameter for gtk2?

Thanks for help,

Christian

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[Olivier Sessink]

apt-get install automake autoconf make libtool intltool libgtk-2-dev libxml2-dev libenchant-dev libgucharmap-2-90-dev python-dev
./autogen.sh
./configure --with-gtk2
make
sudo make install

[Dr. Martin Senftleben]

This ticket can be closed. Bluefish runs fine on Plasma 5.26.4 (Manjaro, but I guess this will also be the case on other systems).

[Dr. Martin Senftleben]

This ticket is being closed since no further information is made available and many code updates have probably fixed this issue as well.