Yes, downloading fresh vm+pharo works (I was thinking I have a recent VM too -- sorry for adding to the confusion). The with issues is this one:
PharoX$ ../Pharo9/pharo-ui -version 5.0-202002121043 Wed Feb 12 11:06:45 UTC 2020 gcc 5.4.0 [Production Spur 64-bit VM] CoInterpreter * VMMaker-CompatibleUserName.1580983506 uuid: 7aff73cb-5a2e-5002-a356-37de4e762a49 Feb 12 2020 StackToRegisterMappingCogit * VMMaker-CompatibleUserName.1580983506 uuid: 7aff73cb-5a2e-5002-a356-37de4e762a49 Feb 12 2020 VM: 202002121043 https://github.com/pharo-project/opensmalltalk-vm.git Date: Wed Feb 12 11:43:20 2020 CommitHash: 52202d8 Plugins: 202002121043 https://github.com/pharo-project/opensmalltalk-vm.git Linux travis-job-93347cf3-9798-4672-8c23-706b9ceb049b 4.15.0-1028-gcp #29~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 12 16:31:10 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux plugin path: /home/danil/L/Pharo9/pharo-vm/lib/pharo/5.0-202002121043 [default: /home/danil/L/Pharo9/pharo-vm/lib/pharo/5.0-202002121043/] вс, 27 дек. 2020 г. в 13:14, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@netc.eu>: > hi, > > I still have no problem with any of that. > So you will have to be more specific : which image version, which VM > version, which linux version. > > Esteban > On Dec 27 2020, at 10:51 am, Danil Osipchuk <danil.osipc...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I can confirm text input is severely broken backspace/del (tried on Linux > buster, but it seems to be an image problem) -- control characters > themselves get inserted into text pane. > Type a string into a pane, ex. '123456789', position cursor somewhere in > the middle, press del/backspace/ left&right arrows. If you inspect the > string you'll see control characters inside (evident at 'Items' tab) > regards, > Danil > > вс, 27 дек. 2020 г. в 02:08, Martin McClure <mar...@hand2mouse.com>: > > If anyone can get recent (within the last week or so) 64-bit Pharo9 > images to work on Linux, please let me know how you did that! I've tried > everything I can think of and no luck. > > For the purposes of this query, "working'' means that you can open a > playground, type into the it, then backspace over what you've typed. > > If you can do that on Linux, this information would be much appreciated: > > * What build are you running? > * What VM are you running and where did you get it? > * How do you launch it? If from the command-line, what arguments? > > Thanks, > -Martin > >