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Re: GUI window menus don't "open" (macOS)
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Friedrich Beckmann |
Subject: |
Re: GUI window menus don't "open" (macOS) |
Date: |
Mon, 7 Nov 2016 19:12:16 +0100 |
Hi Sebastion,
thanks for the feedback. Good to know that pspp needs a more recent X Server.
Friedrich
> Am 07.11.2016 um 19:04 schrieb Sebastian Winkler <address@hidden>:
>
> Hi Friedrich
> Just a quick heads up: today I updated to XQuartz 2.7.11 and the issue seems
> to be resolved.
> Best regards,
> Sebastian
>
>
> From: Sebastian Winkler <address@hidden>
> Reply: Sebastian Winkler <address@hidden>
> Date: 20 October 2016 at 19:05:21
> To: Friedrich Beckmann <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: GUI window menus don't "open" (macOS)
>
>> Hi Friedrich
>>
>> I went from native 1280×800 to 1152×720. In that lower resolution the menus
>> displayed normally. After switching back to the superior resolution the
>> correct behavior was maintained until quitting XQuartz.
>>
>> I am quite positive that the flickering rectangles are misplaced vestiges of
>> the not-appearing menus, as they show the very instance a menu title is
>> triggered and have different widths analogous to the respective menus.
>> (Regarding their height, I have the impression that they are cropped by the
>> top boundary of the main window.)
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Sebastian
>>
>>
>> Sebastian Winkler
>> R. Cap. Filipe Sousa 89-1 | 2500-140 Caldas da Rainha | Portugal
>> fix: +351.262 092 250 | mobile: [pt]+351.934 414 733, [de]+49.15 140 357 453
>>
>> From: Friedrich Beckmann <address@hidden>
>> Reply: Friedrich Beckmann <address@hidden>
>> Date: 19 October 2016 at 23:41:38
>> To: Sebastian Winkler <address@hidden>
>> Cc: pspp-users <address@hidden>
>> Subject: Re: GUI window menus don't "open" (macOS)
>>
>>> Hi Sebastian,
>>>
>>> thanks for your report. I think the flickering rectangle during startup is
>>> the „startup screen“ which is supposed
>>> to show up during program load. On my macbook this is also only a short
>>> white rectangle. However your change
>>> in screen resolution seems to be important. Could you tell me which screen
>>> resolution you use
>>>
>>> a) The resolution which shows the problem
>>> b) The resolution that you used to remove the problem
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Friedrich
>>>
>>>
>>>> Am 19.10.2016 um 23:13 schrieb Sebastian Winkler <address@hidden>:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Friedrich,
>>>> I am now running Sierra, but the problem first surfaced under El Capitan
>>>> (with both: 0.10.2 and 0.10.4).
>>>> echo $LANG in Terminal yields an empty line.
>>>> I deactivated pspp-devel and installed pspp, but the problem remains.
>>>> But I found another interesting workaround (apart from installing a more
>>>> recent version of Inkscape which may not at all times be so readily
>>>> available): I noticed that PSPP’s main window would always be drawn
>>>> partially off-screen. Also, there is a white, rectangular flickering,
>>>> possibly the size of the menu, visible in the upper left corner of the
>>>> screen, the first time I try to activate it. (After the first attempt, the
>>>> flickering is reduced to the single uppermost left pixel of the screen.)
>>>> So I thought that screen layout — I only use one screen — and size may be
>>>> an issue and that PSPP was trying to draw the menus somewhere where they
>>>> don’t belong. Anyway, I changed the screen resolution (to the next lower
>>>> option) and that made the menus work correctly. And they continue to work
>>>> after changing the resolution back, until quitting XQuartz.
>>>> This finding also corroborates with the error messages I included in my
>>>> first mail.
>>>> I hope this is helpful.
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Sebastian
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sebastian Winkler
>>>> R. Cap. Filipe Sousa 89-1 | 2500-140 Caldas da Rainha | Portugal
>>>> fix: +351.262 092 250 | mobile: [pt]+351.934 414 733, [de]+49.15 140 357
>>>> 453
>>>>
>>>> From: Friedrich Beckmann <address@hidden>
>>>> Reply: Friedrich Beckmann <address@hidden>
>>>> Date: 19 October 2016 at 18:32:26
>>>> To: Sebastian Winkler <address@hidden>
>>>> Cc: pspp-users <address@hidden>
>>>> Subject: Re: GUI window menus don't "open" (macOS)
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Sebastian,
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks for trying the pspp stand-alone bundle. Could you tell me which
>>>>> MacOS version
>>>>> you run? I only tried this on ElCapitan and it would be interesting to
>>>>> see how it works
>>>>> on other MacOS Versions.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regarding the macports installation, could you maybe try
>>>>>
>>>>> echo $LANG
>>>>>
>>>>> in a terminal window, i.e. not in pspp?
>>>>>
>>>>> Could you uninstall pspp-devel and try the pspp package?
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Friedrich
>>>>>
>>>>>> Am 19.10.2016 um 19:06 schrieb Sebastian Winkler <address@hidden>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Friedrich,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> thank you answering.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My setup uses the stand-alone XQuarz application [XQuartz 2.7.9
>>>>>> (xorg-server 1.17.4)]. (“port install pspp-devel” installed a whole
>>>>>> bunch of xorg executables, but xorg-server is not among them.)
>>>>>> “xlogo” logo launches said XQuarz installation, so it seems to be
>>>>>> configured correctly.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Before writing earlier today, I completely reinstalled MacPorts and also
>>>>>> substituted the XQuarz installation from a fresh download. The problem
>>>>>> has persisted between various reboots (and a major system upgrade).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As for the language configuration, I have this curious output to offer:
>>>>>> PSPP> echo $LANG
>>>>>> .6-10: Fehler: ECHO: Syntax Fehler bei `$LANG': erwarte Zeichenkette.
>>>>>> So $LANG seems to be undefined, but pspp speaks German anyway.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have since downloaded and tested your 0.10.2 stand-alone bundle which,
>>>>>> comfortingly, works fine (including displaying in English). I had given
>>>>>> up using the precompiled bundles as they had previously stopped being
>>>>>> maintained. Anyway, I thus have working PSPP installation now, which
>>>>>> does turn the case much less urgent. :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best regards,
>>>>>> Sebastian
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sebastian Winkler
>>>>>> R. Cap. Filipe Sousa 89-1 | 2500-140 Caldas da Rainha | Portugal
>>>>>> fix: +351.262 092 250 | mobile: [pt]+351.934 414 733, [de]+49.15 140 357
>>>>>> 453
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From: Friedrich Beckmann <address@hidden>
>>>>>> Reply: Friedrich Beckmann <address@hidden>
>>>>>> Date: 19 October 2016 at 16:31:54
>>>>>> To: Sebastian Winkler <address@hidden>
>>>>>> Cc: address@hidden <address@hidden>
>>>>>> Subject: Re: GUI window menus don't "open" (macOS)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Sebastian,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> thanks for your problem report. I have just tried psppire from the
>>>>>>> latest
>>>>>>> installation of macports on my macbook pro. I have installed:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> xorg-server 1.18.4_1
>>>>>>> pspp 0.10.2
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> both in the X11 variants from macports. I cannot see missing menus.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Could you maybe describe your setup in more detail?
>>>>>>> Which version of the XServer are you using?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Could you check the remarks in the section "Comparison to the MacPorts
>>>>>>> pspp version“
>>>>>>> here: https://www.hs-augsburg.de/~beckmanf/pspp/ regarding the correct
>>>>>>> setup of the
>>>>>>> startup configuration?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regarding the language setting, could you tell us what
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> echo $LANG
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> shows as a result for your LANG environment variable?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Friedrich
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> > Am 19.10.2016 um 13:44 schrieb Sebastian Winkler <address@hidden>:
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > Greetings
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > In both, PSPP 0.10.2 and 0.10.4, the menus' contents on the data
>>>>>>> > editor window are not displayed.
>>>>>>> > Following messages keep reoccurring in the terminal output:
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > (psppire:19211): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
>>>>>>> > gtk_widget_get_preferred_height_for_width: assertion 'width >= 0'
>>>>>>> > failed
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > (psppire:19211): Gtk-WARNING **: Negative content width -11
>>>>>>> > (allocation 1, extents 6x6) while allocating gadget (node menuitem,
>>>>>>> > owner GtkModelMenuItem)
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > (psppire:19211): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkAccelLabel 0x7f9b390ef1f0
>>>>>>> > attempted to adjust its size allocation from 29,1972632292
>>>>>>> > 1x986316136 to 29,-1829176943 1x14. adjust_size_allocation must keep
>>>>>>> > allocation inside original bounds
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > This is occurring on macOS 10.12, but was manifest, before upgrading,
>>>>>>> > on macOS 10.11, too.
>>>>>>> > To test if all XQuartz applications were affected I installed a
>>>>>>> > current version of Inkscape, which had the following curious effect:
>>>>>>> > When launching PSPP directly after running Inkscape for the first
>>>>>>> > time — which is said to perform some GUI optimizations — the menus
>>>>>>> > all of a sudden did display fine. But after quitting and relaunching
>>>>>>> > XQuartz, the previous behavior (no menus) resumed. Launching Inkskape
>>>>>>> > again had no effect.
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > Another possibly unrelated point of curiosity is that psppire runs in
>>>>>>> > German, which it has never done before — my system is running in
>>>>>>> > English, although I have specified German as my second preferred
>>>>>>> > language in the systems “International” preference pane.
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > I hope this is the right forum to post this sort of issues to,
>>>>>>> > Otherwise, if you please, point me in the right direction.
>>>>>>> > Thanks you all,
>>>>>>> > Sebastian
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>> > Sebastian Winkler
>>>>>>> > R. Cap. Filipe Sousa 89-1 | 2500-140 Caldas da Rainha | Portugal
>>>>>>> > fix: +351.262 092 250 | mobile: [pt]+351.934 414 733, [de]+49.15 140
>>>>>>> > 357 453
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>>>
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