Does anyone use the combo arch+motif? on openbsd I use motif and it works great, but on my arch machine I tried to get motif to work (with different versions iirc), but I failed so I settled with gtk instead, thinking that this was the standard option anyway (and forgot to document my different attempts so I can't recall exactly which version of motif I tried) Koen
On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 2:40 PM David O'Toole <deeteeoh1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey there. Thank you, I want to use the motif version too because a lot of > the fancy extensions only work in motif, unfortunately I tried it out and > ran into an issue where suppressing graphical updates does not work and > causes the user interface to misbehave because my software scheme mosaic > opens and closes a lot of sounds. The gtk version seems fine on this task > but the motif versions malfunctions and hangs. I'm looking for a work > around. I thought I would send this message to the list because my > follow-ups with Bill were off list. > > On Sat, Sep 14, 2019, 4:47 AM John Rigg <c...@jrigg.co.uk> wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 04:11:01AM -0700, b...@ccrma.stanford.edu wrote: >> > The gtk version of Snd is caught in-between versions. >> > I thought gtk 4 was "right around the corner" years >> > ago and started trying to port everything to it. >> > Since the changes between version 3 and 4 are enormous, >> > and (it turned out) gtk 4 really isn't ready yet, >> > I got trapped. Snd itself works (though I am not >> > happy with it) in gtk 2/3 but does not work in 4, >> > and the *.scm files are not in any consistent version. >> > I use motif which is still (thank goodness) available >> > from debian and fedora. I suppose I could return to >> > the gtk3 scheme files. The real problem is that I >> > think the gtk interface is ugly, so it's hard to >> > get up the energy to work on it. >> >> Another motif user here. It's much nicer IMO than the GTK >> interface. The ICS version of motif as used by Debian is >> still actively maintained (some Linux distros eg. Void >> still use the Open Motif version, which is unmaintained >> and buggy). >> >> John >> _______________________________________________ >> Cmdist mailing list >> Cmdist@ccrma.stanford.edu >> https://cm-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/cmdist >> >> _______________________________________________ > Cmdist mailing list > Cmdist@ccrma.stanford.edu > https://cm-mail.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/cmdist >
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