Cell icons not working and buggy zooming

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kaarel
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Cell icons not working and buggy zooming

Post by kaarel » May 25th, 2020, 10:09 pm

I somewhat recently upgraded to Ubuntu 20 and some things in Golly have broken. The cell icons don't work, in the edit bar where it should show them it shows weird light squares with dark pixels instead. The cells themselves are invisible in scales below 1:8 and don't have icons otherwise. This makes some rules very annoying to work with.
Selected invisible scribbles and broken icons in edit bar
Selected invisible scribbles and broken icons in edit bar
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Also, scrolling to zoom is buggy and keeps increasing/decreasing two times quickly when I scroll.

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x = 17, y = -54, z = sdsds, x="'\n ,.b3s, :?:dfsf, rule = B33-33-/s2cekain32-3-232cekain322-323-1-ce6-cekain
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Re: Cell icons not working and buggy zooming

Post by Andrew » May 26th, 2020, 3:33 am

kaarel wrote:
May 25th, 2020, 10:09 pm
I somewhat recently upgraded to Ubuntu 20 and some things in Golly have broken. ...
A couple of things to try:

1. Run golly using the following alias (I suspect it won't fix the icon problem but worth trying first):

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alias golly="UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0 ./golly"
2. Download one of the builds mentioned here (depending on if your system is 32-bit or 64-bit):
viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4235#p86529
Let us know if that helps.

Finally, if you have a choice then consider dumping Ubuntu for another flavor of Linux (I prefer Mint). Every new Ubuntu version seems to break some wxWidgets code.
Also, scrolling to zoom is buggy and keeps increasing/decreasing two times quickly when I scroll.
If you mean the scale changes by a factor of 2 each time you zoom then that's deliberate.
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Re: Cell icons not working and buggy zooming

Post by kaarel » May 26th, 2020, 12:02 pm

It works! The scrolling seems also fixed. :D Golly also seems to crash way less than before.
(the scale changed by 4* not 2*)
The only problem is that the filesystem bar icons don't work, but that's not that bad.
Thanks!

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x = 17, y = -54, z = sdsds, x="'\n ,.b3s, :?:dfsf, rule = B33-33-/s2cekain32-3-232cekain322-323-1-ce6-cekain
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