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#20 4Pane not displayed as normal user
Hello,
I have 4Pane installed for many years on my Debian system, now it is Bullseye version.
For several days, when launching 4Pane as root using /usr/bin/4Pane command, 4Pane is displayed and I have the message :
Negative content width -6 (allocation 1, extents 4x3) while allocating gadget (node toolbar, owner GtkToolbar)
several times, then : gtk_box_gadget_distribute: assertion 'size >= 0' failed in GtkScrollbar
But it works.
And as user, with/usr/bin/4pane , I get just this line :
*** Caught unhandled unknown exception; terminating
And it is not displayed.
Do you need more information ?
Hi,
I'm sorry to hear that. FWIW I'm on bullseye too, without crashes.
Those are standard GTK+ spam; they don't matter.
which does matter!
Yes please. From where did you get 4Pane? 4Pane 8.0 from https://www.4Pane.co.uk/Download.htm or SourceForge; the official debian bullseye 7.0 deb; or did you compile your own?
Did it ever work for you, as a user, on bullseye? If so, can you think of any change just before the crashes started? e.g. an apt upgrade, or making a change in your 4Pane settings?
Does it happen as soon as you start 4Pane, or only after you do something in it? If the latter, then what?
What happens if you (close 4Pane, then) temporarily rename its configuration file; that might be ~/.4Pane, or more likely ~/.config/.4Pane. Then restart 4Pane. Does it still crash? If not, there must be something wrong with the original .4Pane.
That's enough suggestions for now...
Regards,
David
Bonjour,
I answer inside your message below :
Le 04/04/2023 à 17:03, David Hart a écrit :
Otherwise, I reinstalled 4pane from these mirrors ; There is now the
release 7.0-1
No crash, but no display... and no new .config/4Pane created.
I hope that helps you, and I don't see other thing to do. Perhaps
compiling it from sources, but I am not too familiar with that...
Please don't hesitate to ask me other tries, I am retired, so I have
free time !
Regards,
Jean-Luc
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#20That's a shame. A damaged .config/.4Pane was the most likely cause, and the easiest to fix.
Though, did you check there isn't also a ~/.4Pane? If there is, that would be 'found' first and, if it's damaged,...
Another question: which Desktop environment and Window manager are you using? I don't see why it should be a problem, but just in case. Oh, and is this a standard AMD64 architecture?
Otherwise you could try debugging the crash. That means installing the debug package, 4pane-dbgsym, and the debugger gdb. Then, in a terminal, type:
and see what the output says.
Effectively there was a ~/.4Pane. And I only put it in ~/.config . And
that works perfectly ! I don't see why that change... I don't think
there has been a problem « between the chair and the keyboard » ! (:-)
Thank you very much for your help, David !
Another answer : I use most of the time Awesome as window manager
(https://awesomewm.org/) because it is very light and fast, and it can
be used by the keyboard : it's more convenient than using the mouse all
the day.... But I installed also Cinnamon, Xfce and Mate, as Debian has
all that in its deposits. I use them only for special uses, for example
when I am helping somebody by phone, to have the same view.
My harware config is an MSI MPG B550 motherboard and an AMD Ryzen5
5600X, so completely standard.
By the way, 4Pane is not completely translated in French ; in fact I
don't see where the language can be configured.
If you agree, I could participate to the translation. In that case, I
will need some information about the way and the tools for translating.
Now I have already translated some man pages as those of awesome,
windowmaker, anacrontab and more, and I would be very interested to
learn more about the Linux translation system, by translating an
application not too big as 4pane.
Finally, I think it will be not necessary to try debugging now, since
the problem has been easy to solve. But if you are really interested, I
could do it, please let me know it.
Best regards,
Jean-Luc
Le 04/04/2023 à 20:58, David Hart a écrit :
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#20That explains it. Presumably that .4Pane was somehow damaged.
Do you mean you just moved ~/.4Pane to ~/.config/ ? I wouldn't expect that to have fixed any problem :/ Still, as long as it works...
We are all different. Some are mouse-people, others keyboard-people (guess which I am). But 4Pane does provide lots of keyboard shortcuts too.
It's very kind of you to offer. Translations are done through Transifex.
This is the current languages page and, as you say, neither Fr nor fr_FR are anywhere near complete.
If you want to help, you will need to register with Transifex, go to the 4Pane page, then apply to be added to the Fr/fr_FR team(s). If nothing happens, there may be a way to contact me (DavidGH) direct, as I'm the team Coordinator.
Le 05/04/2023 à 15:19, David Hart a écrit :
Jean-Luc
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