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Dinosaur Guru  Joined: 12/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 311 |
Hi All One final issue before I can settle down and code my project. Running Linux debian 12 (Bookworm) For some obscure reason Debian decided we should'nt have desktop icons anymore. In other words only a pretty picture on the screen and you have to move either to active corners and/or find the next screen to click on your application. To use it: You have to create a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications/mmedit.desktop as per below [Desktop Entry] Name=mmedit Type=Application Terminal=true Exec=/home/dinosaur/Documents/RpiPico/MMedit5/mmedit Icon=/home/dinosaur/Documents/RpiPico/MMedit5/mmedit.ico Path=/home/dinosaur/Documents/RpiPico/MMedit5 Comment= StartupNotify=true I have copied the mmedit and mmcc executables to /usr/local/bin and made sure the permissions are set correctly. Normally this results in the icon appearing on one of the pages, but it doesn't. If I execute from the cli (which uses the /usr/local/bin/mmedit) I get errors like dinosaur@Desktop:~$ sudo mmedit However if I change directories to where mmedit was extracted to, it runs but still has errors.[sudo] password for dinosaur: QStandardPaths: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR not set, defaulting to '/tmp/runtime-root' QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (0), must be greater than 0 QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 3 QPainter::setFont: Painter not active QPainter::setPen: Painter not active QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints QPainter::end: Painter not active, aborted QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 3 QPainter::setFont: Painter not active QPainter::setPen: Painter not active QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints QPainter::end: Painter not active, aborted Segmentation fault dinosaur@Desktop:~$ dinosaur@Desktop:~/Documents/RpiPico/MMedit5$ ./mmedit QSocketNotifier: Can only be used with threads started with QThread QFont::setPointSize: Point size <= 0 (0), must be greater than 0 QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 3 QPainter::setFont: Painter not active QPainter::setPen: Painter not active QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints QPainter::end: Painter not active, aborted QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 3 QPainter::setFont: Painter not active QPainter::setPen: Painter not active QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints QPainter::end: Painter not active, aborted qt.qpa.wayland: Wayland does not support QWindow::requestActivate() qt.qpa.wayland: Wayland does not support QWindow::requestActivate() So, I can't simply click on an icon and open mmedit or mmcc. I open the file manager, browse to the correct directory, open a cli in that directory then type in ./mmedit. Bloody long winded. Has anyone got this working correctly on Debian 12 ? Would love to hear how. Regards Hervey Bay Qld. |
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TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 6099 |
Start by keeping the directory structure that is in the download. The exe has to be in the main folder with the data subfolder intact. I am not sure why you copied the exes to /usr/local/bin Think like a portable installation. I wouldn't leave it in the documents folder but it is up to you. For the desktop icon start with the files supplied in the installation folder. They look something like this [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Type=Application Terminal=false Name[en_AU]=MMEdit Exec=/home/jim/MMedit5/MMEdit Icon=/home/jim/MMedit5/mme.ico Name=MMEdit The rest is up to you. Jim VK7JH MMedit MMBasic Help |
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| Dinosaur Guru Joined: 12/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 311 |
Hi All Thanks Jim, will give the different directory structure a go. Normally Debian uses /usr/loc/bin as the first place to look for an application. If I don't succeed with that, then I will write a script that calls the console and then runs mmedit. EDIT: That worked, also keeping the Ucase/LCase correct in the names helps. Although originally I just changed the executables to all lower case. Once again thank you. Edited 2023-11-17 14:15 by Dinosaur Regards Hervey Bay Qld. |
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| Andy-g0poy Regular Member  Joined: 07/03/2023 Location: United KingdomPosts: 58 |
Desktop Icons... What desktop are you using? On KDE you just use the Appliocation menu. Add the app wherever you want it in the tree, point ther application source at MMedit, point the icon to the MMedit icon That's it all done. If you want to, you can drag the newly created icon to the application launcher favs sidebar, the working bar at the bottom of the screen, or onto the desktop My very common apps are on the bottom bar, and I leave the less common on the launcher. However there are 100's of ways to set this up, it's down to your choice. Andy |
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| Dinosaur Guru Joined: 12/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 311 |
Hi All I am using Gnome desktop and the method you mentioned does not appear to be available in that. I do keep my common apps on the bottom bar as well. But as you said, there are hundreds of ways to set this up and for some reason Debian has gone to the preferred method of housing the local installed executables in /usr/local/bin. I guess the advantage is that typing the name in a cli anywhere will find it first up. So, I managed to stick to the Debian method of .desktop file but pointing to /home/dinosaur/mmedit5 for the executable. Thanks for all the help and suggestions to all. Regards Hervey Bay Qld. |
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