Thanks, Bill, that helped. (Blush...) Worked some with the new WSJT-X version. It seems to be working mostly fine now.
One peculiarity: The two decode windows suppress the underlength of all letters. When I expect "CQ", I see "CO". Where I expect "Germany", I see "Germanv". I had a few QSOs and some fun this afternoon with WSJT-X, thanks again, 73 Andreas, DJ3EI Am 11.10.2014 um 15:18 schrieb Bill Somerville: > On 11/10/2014 13:54, Andreas Krüger wrote: >> Hello, WSJT-X development team, > Hi Andreas, >> 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? > As documented in the User Guide: > > http://www.physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx-doc/wsjtx-main.html#FAQ > > the FAQ item number 6 should help you out with this issue. >> 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: > We are currently shipping the User Guide as part of the package. There > are two actions on the WSJT-X "Help" menu, one for the latest version of > the guide via the web and another to open the bundled version locally > which is the User Guide as at the time the package was built. >> >> 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. > Yes, that is a defect. We should use libqt5multimedia5-plugins as the > leaf package that drags in all the required Qt components and > dependencies that WSJT-X requires. >> 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? > The v1.4.0-rc2 Beta release used a quick and simple package generation > option in the CMake build system. This needs refinement but we (Greg > KI7MT mainly) are also implementing a comprehensive package generation > for Debian which will be suitable for inclusion in the official > repositories. > > The libfortran3:i386 requirement on 64-bit systems is not actually a > requirement of WSJT-X but of kvasd, we are stripping kvasd out of the > Debian package due to it not being FOSS and making it a user specified > add on which be hosted separately from the WSJT-X package. We will > ensure that the relevant prerequisite packages are either installed with > WSJT-X or as part of the add on component. > > Thanks for your valuable observations and suggestions. >> Vy 73 de Andreas, DJ3EI > 73 > Bill > G4WJS. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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? 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