Hello, WSJT-X development team, I installed WSJT-X from wsjtx_1.4.0-rc2_amd64.deb on my Ubuntu system. For what it's worth, I'm using the LXDE desktop.
But WSJT-X does not show a menu bar. I cannot enter settings such as call sign or locator. Pressing F1 or F2 results in no discernible reaction, either. Any suggestion how I can make WSJT-X display the menu bar? Or else find out what is wrong? FWIW: A long time ago, this Ubuntu installation started as 12.04 plain Ubuntu. Then I didn't like their fancy desktop, so I installed XFCE packages (and threw out quite a few Ubuntu unity things) and was happy with what I had for quite some time. Recently, I upgraded to 14.04, and switched to LXDE as my desktop of choice shortly thereafter. So this computer may have a somewhat peculiar mix of packages. On the other hand, I think if the package dependencies of the WSJT-X .deb are correct, that should not matter. Here follows my installation report on wsjtx_1.4.0-rc2_amd64.deb, with some suggestions of my own sprinkled in. I went to http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx.html and read > Be sure to refer to the online WSJT-X User's Guide for the relevant > program version: The "for" can have a meaning different from the one intended, as in "please refer to Joe for ultimate guidance". I initially did misunderstand this sentence, to say something like: "Please refer to the online WSJT-X User's Guide for advice about choosing the program version relevant for you." And then I was actually looking around for the link to that guide and didn't get it. Suggestion: To cater to temporarily dense people like myself, change that text to something like > Depending on the program version you want to use, be sure to refer > to the WSJT-X User's Guide version that corresponds to it: I installed libqt5multimediawidgets5 and libfftw3-single3 and libgfortran3:i386 as recommended by http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main.html#INSTALL_LINUX I found I also needed to install libqt5multimedia5-plugins, not mentioned in the guide. But dpkg clearly told me so. Suggestion: Add libqt5multimedia5-plugins to the list in the guide. In passing: Why is libgfortran3:i386 not in the dependencies of the .deb? If it's needed, it should be there in the .deb. But neither ldd nor strace seem to think it's needed. So probably the guide needs some pruning? Vy 73 de Andreas, DJ3EI ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ wsjt-devel mailing list wsjt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wsjt-devel
