i’m attempting to run GRC for my research and studies in EE at FAU, Boca
Raton. i recently switched two OSs from Windows8 (and XP) to Ubuntu
linux
(in anticipation of running webSDR software from Pieter in the
Netherlands)
… on my notebook, whether i launch GRC from terminal mode or
quick-launch
on the left, i cannot build flow-graphs in the IDE because i cannot
drag/drop/double-click blocks from the menu on the right into the
development pane. Ubuntu seems to expect me to drop blocks on the
quick-launch bar on the left because it goes dim and highlights my Home
Folder and Trash as if i was going to make an app quick-launch-able.
this post should also go to an Ubuntu forum but since i’m new to that
flavor (i used Suse years ago), i’m unfamiliar with helpful forums
within
the Ubuntu community… if anyone can point me in the right direction,
your
help will most certainly be appreciated
sam/kg4g-go
ps: thx to marcus leech for his wonderful script that installs GRC; he
pointed me in ur direction
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 1:35 PM, Salvatore M. [email protected]
wrote:
Folder and Trash as if i was going to make an app quick-launch-able.
this post should also go to an Ubuntu forum but since i’m new to that flavor
(i used Suse years ago), i’m unfamiliar with helpful forums within the
Ubuntu community… if anyone can point me in the right direction, your help
will most certainly be appreciated
sam/kg4g-go
ps: thx to marcus leech for his wonderful script that installs GRC; he
pointed me in ur direction
Hi Sam,
That’s a very odd error. I’m using various versions of Ubuntu
(including 12.04) and don’t have that problem. My best guess is that
it’s some issue between your graphics card/driver and the display
manager.
A quick thing to try. If you grab and drag the block from the block
tree to the canvas and then hold it there for a couple of seconds,
does anything change? What if you drag and drop very quickly? (I have
some recollection of seeing an issue like this at some point).
i wish it was that simple … i thot it was Unity hosing me up so i
disabled
it and lost my launch capability lol … tried autohide; din’t work …
tried
disabling again with GRC running still don’t work … am considering
reinstalling linux with KDE … i think it might be a gnome/python issue
…
i just tried killing Unity and running GRC from xterm and still don’t
work
… gonna reboot and try it … still don’t work (the symptom is - the
shell
appears to work and can start to drag-and-drop but cannot drop) … if it
was a python issue, would it work at all?
i wish it was that simple … i thot it was Unity hosing me up so i
disabled it and lost my launch capability lol … tried autohide; din’t
work … tried disabling again with GRC running still don’t work … am
considering reinstalling linux with KDE … i think it might be a
gnome/python issue … i just tried killing Unity and running GRC from
xterm and still don’t work … gonna reboot and try it … still don’t
work (the symptom is - the shell appears to work and can start to
drag-and-drop but cannot drop) … if it was a python issue, would it
work at all?
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 11:58 PM, Salvatore M. [email protected]
wrote:
yea re-installing linux and GRC din’t change a thing … that means i need a
different computer? if so, what notebooks work nicely with ubuntu and GRC?
I always consider the act of reinstalling your OS to be the nuclear
option. But you’re looking to blow up your entire planet!
I watched your video and you’ve shown a grave misunderstanding of GRC.
You are trying to drag-and-drop the categories, not the blocks
themselves. Next to each category, like ‘Misc’ or ‘Sources’, click the
right-facing triangle to open up the drop-down list of blocks in those
categories. You should be able to drag-and-drop those onto your
canvas.
