Re: The gst-browser is broken in Ubuntu 20.04

2021-01-19 Thread s...@pandora.be
Ubuntu has several (many) desktop choices. Is Gary using Ubuntu with GNOME 3 ? There are also exists Kubuntu with KDE Plasma or Ubuntu-MATE with MATE. MATE (pronounced with emphasis on the 'e', like in Yerba Mate) is a project that originated on Linux arch and parabola.

Re: The gst-browser is broken in Ubuntu 20.04

2021-01-18 Thread bill-auger
FWIW, gst-browser also was broken on debian8, fedora24, and ubuntu16 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-smalltalk/2017-01/msg2.html i have not done such a thorough evaluation since then; but i suspect that it has been broken on those distros ever since - however, it is worth noting that

Re: The gst-browser is broken in Ubuntu 20.04

2021-01-17 Thread Gary Highberger
Got it. Thanks! On Sun, Jan 17, 2021, 10:47 AM s...@pandora.be wrote: > > You could also try an older version of Ubuntu or > https://ubuntu-mate.org/about/ which is a fork of GNOME-2 (MATE) on > Ubuntu. > > I haven't used Ubuntu MATE (https://ubuntu-mate.org) but it may have the > necessary

Re: The gst-browser is broken in Ubuntu 20.04

2021-01-17 Thread s...@pandora.be
You could also try an older version of Ubuntu or https://ubuntu-mate.org/about/ which is a fork of GNOME-2 (MATE) on Ubuntu. I haven't used Ubuntu MATE (https://ubuntu-mate.org) but it may have the necessary GTK2 libs. > I don't know enough about GTK but in your case I'd check whether the old

Re: The gst-browser is broken in Ubuntu 20.04

2021-01-17 Thread s...@pandora.be
For what it's worth , gst-browser is working for me on Solaris 11.3. I don't use it (I just use the CLI) but gst-browser a.k.a. VisualGST seems to work. See screenshot in attach. Also the about box of VisualGST (as it seems to be named), refers to https://github.com/MrGwen/gst-visualgst but

Re: The gst-browser is broken in Ubuntu 20.04

2021-01-16 Thread bill-auger
if this is regarding the .deb package in the ubuntu repos, you should report it as a bug to ubuntu; because only the package maintainer could fix that problem the last i knew though, gnu-smalltalk was lacking a maintainer in debian - presumably, it has no maintainer in ubuntu either so you may

The gst-browser is broken in Ubuntu 20.04

2021-01-16 Thread Gary Highberger
Hi everyone, >From what I've read, gst-browser could be a handy debugging tool. It appears to be broken. No biggie. I'm just documenting my find. Gary $ gst-browser Gtk-Message: 17:44:10.276: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module" Object: CFunctionDescriptor new: 1 "<0x7fd9836d6750>"