Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-18 Thread Randall Morgan
John, We are about in the same boat but I have a few years on you in using Gambas. I worked with a 4004 and the 74181 ALUs... I was lucky enough to have access to a Altair 8800. Though I am 5 years your junior... The 6809 and I spent a lot of time together. I even built a 6809 emulator. I think y

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-18 Thread John Leake
> If you use BackBox, uninstall metacity and try to delete ~/.cache/sessions. > Assuming you still have xfwm4 installed. Done and I do have xfwm4 installed and I am back to an almost unusable system. -- Want excitement? M

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-18 Thread John Leake
> John, not to offense, but your messages are mess. What is your distro, > Ubuntu or BackBox? Why metacity?? Neither of them uses metacity. Hi Jussi, No offence taken. I have been trying to find out why my threading is a mess but have not got to the bottom of that yet. BackBox 3.13 is based on D

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-18 Thread John Leake
> /me scratches head... Ubuntu 12.04LTS with metacity and gnome2? I thought > Ubuntu switched to Unity a LOOONG time ago or am I missing something here? The distro is BackBox 3.13 which is Ubuntu 12.0.4 LTS with a light front end instead of all that unity bloatware. ---

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-18 Thread Jussi Lahtinen
If you use BackBox, uninstall metacity and try to delete ~/.cache/sessions. Assuming you still have xfwm4 installed. Jussi On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 2:07 PM, Jussi Lahtinen wrote: > John, not to offense, but your messages are mess. What is your distro, > Ubuntu or BackBox? Why metacity?? Neither

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-18 Thread Jussi Lahtinen
John, not to offense, but your messages are mess. What is your distro, Ubuntu or BackBox? Why metacity?? Neither of them uses metacity. Jussi On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 12:51 PM, John Leake wrote: > >>> Some of the symptoms > >>> > >>> > >>> (1) System wide keyboard short cut

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-18 Thread Dimitris Anogiatis
/me scratches head... Ubuntu 12.04LTS with metacity and gnome2? I thought Ubuntu switched to Unity a LOOONG time ago or am I missing something here? On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 3:51 AM, John Leake wrote: > >>> Some of the symptoms > >>> > >>> > >>> (1) System wide keyboard short

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-18 Thread John Leake
>>> Some of the symptoms >>> >>> >>> (1) System wide keyboard short cuts all fucked up. >>> (2) No Window decoration. >>> (3) Window layering, focus, bring to top - knackered. >>> (4) Default position on window launch not what it used to be. >>> (5) Thunderbird text menus not w

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-18 Thread John Leake
> Gambas cannot destroy your system, installed from source of from binary > packages. This is something else. Any suggestions ? -- Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, cho

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-18 Thread Benoît Minisini
Le 18/09/2014 10:58, John Leake a écrit : >> Some of the symptoms >> >> >> (1) System wide keyboard short cuts all fucked up. >> (2) No Window decoration. >> (3) Window layering, focus, bring to top - knackered. >> (4) Default position on window launch not what it used to be. >

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-18 Thread John Leake
>> Some of the symptoms >> >> >> (1) System wide keyboard short cuts all fucked up. >> (2) No Window decoration. >> (3) Window layering, focus, bring to top - knackered. >> (4) Default position on window launch not what it used to be. >> (5) Thunderbird text menus not working.

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-18 Thread John Leake
> Some of the symptoms > > > (1) System wide keyboard short cuts all fucked up. > (2) No Window decoration. > (3) Window layering, focus, bring to top - knackered. > (4) Default position on window launch not what it used to be. > (5) Thunderbird text menus not working. (6) Fir

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-18 Thread John Leake
Hi Jussi, One good thing here is that the system seems faster unless it is the volume of adrenalin coursing through my arteries. What a bloody mess. Hi Randal, I have been a self employed software engineer for more than 30 years with a degree in Electronics and Physics. I built my own video card

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-17 Thread Randall Morgan
Hi John, I run a system similar to yours. Still running 12.04 LTS and have not only routinely built Gambas 3 from source but, I have gone back and forth between the repo versions and the trunk code. If you take care to ensure all the listed prerequisites are installed, Gambas 3 build fine and does

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-17 Thread Jussi Lahtinen
Hard to believe it is Gambas issue. I think your window manager has crashed, either restart it or reboot. If it is config issue, then it's more complicated. Jussi On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 3:47 AM, John Leake wrote: > I cannot deal with this right now. Despite purging Gambas3 autoremove > and u

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-17 Thread John Leake
I cannot deal with this right now. Despite purging Gambas3 autoremove and update and reinstalling my desktop it has all turned to ratshit!!! On 18/09/14 01:39, John Leake wrote: > WARNING - building Gambas3 can fuck up your desktop. > My window borders have vanished. > >

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-17 Thread John Leake
WARNING - building Gambas3 can fuck up your desktop. My window borders have vanished. -- Want excitement? Manually upgrade your production database. When you want reliability, choose Perforce Perforce version control. Pred

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-17 Thread John Leake
Sorry guys I did about sixteen hours on this yesterday and only had about 4 hours sleep last night so I will just have to call it a dorris and let all you fit youngsters slug it out. -- Want excitement? Manually upgrade yo

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-17 Thread John Leake
What is going on here ? I really do not understand. I (John Leake the gambas newbie) started a new thread about the problems I was experiencing in attempting to build from svn trunk. Please do not loose sight of the fact that it all worked in the end (which is a major achievement). I was careful

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-17 Thread Benoît Minisini
/// My God! Stop using the same thread for all subjects! /// Le 18/09/2014 00:16, T Lee Davidson a écrit : > This again brings up an issue I brought up previously: that every page > on the old wiki should have that same notice that is on the home page. > > "THE WIKI IS NOW IN READ-ONLY MODE. > THE

Re: [Gambas-user] Building /trunk, deprecated documentation

2014-09-17 Thread T Lee Davidson
This again brings up an issue I brought up previously: that every page on the old wiki should have that same notice that is on the home page. "THE WIKI IS NOW IN READ-ONLY MODE. THE NEW WIKI IS NOW HOSTED AT http://gambaswiki.org"; I asked if that could be done, but I don't see it yet. And, I re