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Andy Stewart - 2024-07-30

Hi Derek,

I confirm that I've seen the behavior that you've mentioned with wsjtx. This feels like a bug in WSJTX (or possibly Wayland) and I hope you will report it to the respective team. The install_ahrl script installs wsjtx from the repository (see function install_wsjtx()).

As you mentioned, would could switch from Wayland to X11, and that appears to fix the issue with wstjx.

In case people don't know how to make that switch, it is done this way:

sudo -i
raspi-config
Choose menu option 6: advanced options
Then choose menu option A6: wayland
Finally, choose menu option W1: Openbox with X11 backend
Reboot

In a day or two, I will try compiling wsjtx from source to see if that resolves the issue. I doubt that it will, but it is worth a try. If that fixes things, I'll modify the install_ahrl script to install wsjtx from source.

Regarding the chromium browser, it works fine for me here. Did you mean Chrome or Chromium?
Please give me more details so I can attempt to reproduce what you're seeing.

Thanks, and 73,

Andy
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- Derek Hughes - 2024-07-30
  
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Apologies, Chromium as shipped natively with Raspberry Pi OS..
  
  Regards
  Derek
  
  Derek Hughes BSc(Hons), MIET, ProfGCE
  Chairman Quantum Amateur Radio & Technology Society
  
  M: 07306 616 636
  E: derek@g7lfc.co.uk
  W: www.g7lfc.radio
  
  On 30 Jul 2024, at 02:23, Andy Stewart <andystewart@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
  
  Hi Derek,
  
  I confirm that I've seen the behavior that you've mentioned with wsjtx. This feels like a bug in WSJTX (or possibly Wayland) and I hope you will report it to the respective team. The install_ahrl script installs wsjtx from the repository (see function install_wsjtx()).
  
  As you mentioned, would could switch from Wayland to X11, and that appears to fix the issue with wstjx.
  
  In case people don't know how to make that switch, it is done this way:
  
  sudo -i
  raspi-config
  Choose menu option 6: advanced options
  Then choose menu option A6: wayland
  Finally, choose menu option W1: Openbox with X11 backend
  Reboot
  
  In a day or two, I will try compiling wsjtx from source to see if that resolves the issue. I doubt that it will, but it is worth a try. If that fixes things, I'll modify the install_ahrl script to install wsjtx from source.
  
  Regarding the chromium browser, it works fine for me here. Did you mean Chrome or Chromium?
  Please give me more details so I can attempt to reproduce what you're seeing.
  
  Thanks, and 73,
  
  Andy
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  [bugs:#6] X11 needs to be restored
  
  Status: open
  Group: v1.0 (example)
  Created: Mon Jul 29, 2024 09:49 PM UTC by Derek Hughes
  Last Updated: Mon Jul 29, 2024 09:49 PM UTC
  Owner: nobody
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  Hi, have today installed version 26 of AHRL on my 8GB Raspberry Pi 5 with a 32GB SD card that is running the very latest Raspberry Pi OS (Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)) ...
  
  uname -a
  Linux hampi-g7lfc 6.6.31+rpt-rpi-2712 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.6.31-1+rpt1 (2024-05-29) aarch64 GNU/Linux
  
  The OS was downloaded today from the Raspberry Pi website and has been updated so that there are no more updates to be installed.
  
  Unfortunately, when I load WSJT-X there are no borders around the window and no min/max/close controls. I know I have to disable Wayland and enable X11, but I thought I'd let you know of the issue.
  
  The other problem is, since performing th install, I can no longer load the Chrome browser.
  
  Many thanks for your help.
  
  Regards
  Derek
  
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Andy Stewart - 2024-07-30

Hi Derek,

As I mentioned, the Chromium browser is working fine for me when installed from the repository. Are you seeing something different? The install_ahrl program doesn't touch Chromium, it only installs ham radio applications and their required libraries.

At this point, I don't see a bug in AHRL that I need to fix. Do you agree? If not, please explain.

Thanks, and 73,

Andy
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- Derek Hughes - 2024-07-30
  
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Hi, many thanks for your support - it is much appreciated.
  
  Running Chromium from the command line, lesson learned, reveals an error message not displayed when running the browser from the command line.
  
  I’d forgotten that I’d changed the host name and wouldn’t have put two and two together even if I had.
  
  The error indicated that the browser was already installed in another profile; deleting the profile resolved the issue.
  
  Thanks again. Now to hook the raspberry pi up to the radio. :-)
  
  Regards
  Derek
  
  Derek Hughes G7LFC, BSc(Hons), MIET, ProfGCE
  
  Chairman Quantum Amateur Radio & Technology Society
  
  M: 07306 616 636
  E: derek@g7lfc.co.uk
  W: www.g7lfc.radio
  
  On 30 Jul 2024, at 13:57, Andy Stewart <andystewart@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
  
  Hi Derek,
  
  As I mentioned, the Chromium browser is working fine for me when installed from the repository. Are you seeing something different? The install_ahrl program doesn't touch Chromium, it only installs ham radio applications and their required libraries.
  
  At this point, I don't see a bug in AHRL that I need to fix. Do you agree? If not, please explain.
  
  Thanks, and 73,
  
  Andy
  KB1OIQ ..
  
  [bugs:#6] X11 needs to be restored
  
  Status: open
  Group: v1.0 (example)
  Created: Mon Jul 29, 2024 09:49 PM UTC by Derek Hughes
  Last Updated: Tue Jul 30, 2024 01:23 AM UTC
  Owner: nobody
  Attachments:
  
  out.txt (2.9 MB; text/plain)
  
  Hi, have today installed version 26 of AHRL on my 8GB Raspberry Pi 5 with a 32GB SD card that is running the very latest Raspberry Pi OS (Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)) ...
  
  uname -a
  Linux hampi-g7lfc 6.6.31+rpt-rpi-2712 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.6.31-1+rpt1 (2024-05-29) aarch64 GNU/Linux
  
  The OS was downloaded today from the Raspberry Pi website and has been updated so that there are no more updates to be installed.
  
  Unfortunately, when I load WSJT-X there are no borders around the window and no min/max/close controls. I know I have to disable Wayland and enable X11, but I thought I'd let you know of the issue.
  
  The other problem is, since performing th install, I can no longer load the Chrome browser.
  
  Many thanks for your help.
  
  Regards
  Derek
  
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Andy Stewart - 2024-07-30

Thanks, Derek, for closing the loop!

I'm curious to hear how this works for you when actually hooked up to the radio.

Have fun and 73,

Andy
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- Derek Hughes - 2024-07-30
  
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">Your system behaved faultlessly. Have never used a Raspberry Pi, Linux or an Icom IC-7100 before to operate FT8. Having installed AHRL yesterday, today I hooked everything together and it all just worked - no issues at all.
  
  Typically I chose a day when we were suffering a radio blackout, but made two contacts into Eastern Europe.
  
  Congratulations on producing a great product and many thanks for your support. The next installation should be really quick.
  
  Regards
  Derek
  
  Derek Hughes BSc(Hons), MIET, ProfGCE
  Chairman Quantum Amateur Radio & Technology Society
  
  M: 07306 616 636
  E: derek@g7lfc.co.uk
  W: www.g7lfc.radio
  
  On 30 Jul 2024, at 22:34, Andy Stewart <andystewart@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
  
  Thanks, Derek, for closing the loop!
  
  I'm curious to hear how this works for you when actually hooked up to the radio.
  
  Have fun and 73,
  
  Andy
  KB1OIQ ..
  
  [bugs:#6] X11 needs to be restored
  
  Status: open
  Group: v1.0 (example)
  Created: Mon Jul 29, 2024 09:49 PM UTC by Derek Hughes
  Last Updated: Tue Jul 30, 2024 12:57 PM UTC
  Owner: nobody
  Attachments:
  
  out.txt (2.9 MB; text/plain)
  
  Hi, have today installed version 26 of AHRL on my 8GB Raspberry Pi 5 with a 32GB SD card that is running the very latest Raspberry Pi OS (Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)) ...
  
  uname -a
  Linux hampi-g7lfc 6.6.31+rpt-rpi-2712 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.6.31-1+rpt1 (2024-05-29) aarch64 GNU/Linux
  
  The OS was downloaded today from the Raspberry Pi website and has been updated so that there are no more updates to be installed.
  
  Unfortunately, when I load WSJT-X there are no borders around the window and no min/max/close controls. I know I have to disable Wayland and enable X11, but I thought I'd let you know of the issue.
  
  The other problem is, since performing th install, I can no longer load the Chrome browser.
  
  Many thanks for your help.
  
  Regards
  Derek
  
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Andy Stewart - 2024-07-30

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