From: Andreas Kohlbecker Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2014 12:25:55 +0000 (+0000) Subject: adding faq entry on crashes in KDE and other ubunu desktop environments X-Git-Tag: 3.6.0~813 X-Git-Url: https://dev.e-taxonomy.eu/gitweb/taxeditor.git/commitdiff_plain/8a78e9e7fbd919d529df93b9a61bf23faab510cc adding faq entry on crashes in KDE and other ubunu desktop environments --- diff --git a/src/site/fml/troubleshooting.fml b/src/site/fml/troubleshooting.fml index 826ca7f08..a27c259c6 100644 --- a/src/site/fml/troubleshooting.fml +++ b/src/site/fml/troubleshooting.fml @@ -57,5 +57,26 @@

The editor should launch again.

+ + The Taxonomic Editor crashes or freezes in recent Ubuntu versions + +

In recent Ubuntu versions (13.04, 13.10) the Taxomomic Editor crashes frequently (KDE) or freezes for some time (GNOME). The crashes in KDE are due to a bug which affects all Eclipse indigo (3.7) RCP based applications. Even this bug is currently discussed in the affected developer communities: launchpad bug 1241101, eclipse bug 419729 the cause of this bug is still unclear. +

+

In KDE the crash occurs when the oxygene_gtk is being used. Therefore switching to another GTK2 theme is known as a temporary solution. The GTK2 theme Raleigh has been sucessfully used as a replacement to the oxygen_gtk2. You can either configure it globally or set the environmanet variable GTK2_RC_FILES for the application to run.

+

+ GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Raleigh/gtk-2.0/gtkrc "/path/to/EDIT Taxonomic Editor/TaxonomicEditor" +

+

The font size is usually too big in the default configration of this theme. In order to have a nicer font, you can create a file named .gtkrc-eclipse in your user home folder with the following content:

+
style "eclipse" {
+        font_name = "Ubuntu 9"
+}
+class "GtkWidget" style "eclipse"
+
+

Finally, to launch the Editor, use following command line:

+

+ GTK2_RC_FILES=/usr/share/themes/Raleigh/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:~/.gtkrc-eclipse "/path/to/EDIT Taxonomic Editor/TaxonomicEditor" +

+ +