PB & Ubuntu 10.10, Kubuntu 10.10 & Xubuntu 10.10

[dhouston]

I have made clean installs of these and ran sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtk2.0-dev libgnome2-dev libgnomeprintui2.2-dev libxine-dev libsdl1.2-dev libiodbc2-dev

I have both PB and my source on a USB drive. There were no problems with Kubuntu or Xubuntu but Ubuntu balked when I tried to start PB with an error message saying "There is no application for executable files." I had to move the PB directory to my home folder AND change the permissions on each of the executables in /purebasic/compilers to allow them to run as executable files.

[GBeebe]

Sounds like Ubuntu was thinking you were trying to open the executable binary instead of executing it. Very Odd. My 10.10 is still downloading. I'll find out how it goes tomorrow.

[Motu]

did you try

./purebasic

?

[dhouston]

did you try
./purebasic

No. I tried double-clicking the executable and tried creating launchers - both of which work with Kubuntu and Xubuntu as well as with earlier versions of Ubuntu.

I was able to keep my source on the USB drive which is the important thing as I want all the flavors of Linux that I test my app on to be using the same version of the source. I sure don't want to have to maintain different versions for all of the myriad of Linux versions.

[GBeebe]

Well, I gave 10.10 a shot and I have to say that I'm very disappointed. All of my pb games run slow, even the ones that use opengl. Even with debugger off and even when compiled. All other games work fine, OpenArena, Super Maryo Chronicles, etc... What gives? Everything worked fine on 9.04 and 10.04. I would think that it's an Ubuntu 10.10 only problem, but why would it only have a problem with my PB stuff?

@dhouston, I had to set all the binaries in the compilers directory to have "allow executing file as program" permissions.

[PureLust]

Hello there,

I've just installed Ubuntu 10.10 in a virtual VMWare-Workstation Machine and plan to install PB 4.51 on it.
Before I install PB, I'd like to "pimp" the desktop-design a bit.

I've already installed some themes, BUT ... i cannot get the transparent Effects to work, neither the thumbnail-previews for the opened windows or other graphically gimmicks like window-switching effects.

I've installed compiz fusion icon to do that and anything seems to work fine - except the pointed things.

Any suggestion what could be the reason for this?
Could it be, because it's running in a VM and the graphic-power is not height enough for such graphically gimmicks?

Maybe someone of you has some experiences with Linux running in VMs or has an suggestion what I may have done wrong that transparency etc. is not working?

Thanks and Greetz, PL.

[Edit:] Added a Screenshot, where you could see the "missing" transparency:

[GBeebe]

Is that a Windows 7 theme for Gnome? Eeew. I don't see where your transparent problem is, in that picture.

[PureLust]

I don't see where your transparent problem is, in that picture.

The Window-Frames and the StartButton-Menu should have transparency and should look like this:



But the transparency is only One Thing that is Not working As it should do.
The 3D-taskswitching animation and the thumbnail-previewimages of the taskbar-symbols are not working As well:
E.g.: http://www.nickles.de/c/s/i/691-41.htm

[Trond]

It's because it's running in a VM.