xaralx and slackware not working properly?
i installed xaralx a couple different ways,first i downloaded a tgz.for slack,and the gui came up for xara but with no template.so i opened the template folder and selected the portrait template.what i got was this;an error occured(file does not exist)when opening the file a4.this happens with all templates.so obvious ly i cant use xara!
i also down loaded the autopackage and ran it successfully.but i get the same error?
now heres the kicker it used to work!but now it doesnt?slack is stable and usually i can run just about anything.im using kde 3.9 and using the stable version of xaralx.
ver..7rev16.im baffled cause it used to work.does anyone have some answers or ideas on how i can fix this?any help would be highly appreciated!!!!!
Rick:confused:
Re: xaralx and slackware not working properly?
Rick what has changed on your system?
Did you install a new release of slackware?
Is the correct version of wxwidgets installed?
How about the C/C++ versions?
I do not recall all the dependencies for XaraLX and the program has not been updated for over a year. Newer versions of any of the dependencies can break the performance of XaraLX.
Re: xaralx and slackware not working properly?
i believe i installed wx gtk,wich has wxwidgets1.8(i think)basically i installed,libmspack,cairo,pango,atk,glib2.0,just to get wx gtk to compile.
as for whats different im not exactly sure,ive installed alot of dependencies for other programs.im using slack 12.1,and this is a new installation,i had to reinstall after some really bad commands.i used all newer dependencies,so maybe thats the problem.
i dunno,im completely lost.:confused: as for the c++ ihave the standard gcc,and cmake that came with slack.
Re: xaralx and slackware not working properly?
XaraLX has not been updated so any of those changes could cause the program to no longer work.
Hopefully one of our members that uses Linux will be along with some more helpful information.
I removed linux from my systems some time ago, so I cannot make any tests.
Re: xaralx and slackware not working properly?
well ok.thanx,i also got this message when starting xara from the commandline;
xaralx:24630): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_window_move: assertion `GTK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
maybe its a gtk problem?
Rick
Re: xaralx and slackware not working properly?
Rick I think that error is due to a newer version of the GTK+ and it does not recognise a subroutine call being made by XaraLX.
It is possible the routine is named differently in the new version or that it requires different types of parameters to be passed than the older version LX is calling.
Re: xaralx and slackware not working properly?
Have you gone through and checked that all deps for Xaralx are there in your new install?
check for WxWidgets lib
and the WxXtra lib
Re: xaralx and slackware not working properly?
i think your right!what ill do is uninstall the newer version of gtk and install an older version,ill have to find the page i found and didnt bookmark on installing xaralx.
ill have to probably redo the dependencies-prereqisits.i think ill look it up and just try gtk first.thanks for the info!!!
Rick:)
Re: xaralx and slackware not working properly?
Re: xaralx and slackware not working properly?
Of course, if a newer gtk+ version is being used, you could either change the version to call within the spec file and repackage it or ask one of slacks devs to look into it