Monodevelop Stetic Designer Not Working

skanky · 2014-11-08 22:18:22

Just installed monodevelop 5.0.1:

Mono 3.10.0 (tarball Mon Oct 6 20:46:04 UTC 2014) (64-bit)
GTK+ 2.24.25 (Raleigh theme)

I have no DE and am using spectrwm WM.

monodevelop works generally, except for the stetic designer.

I'm trying to use gtk# and have the following packages installed:

mono 3.10.0-1
mono-addins 1.1-1
monodevelop 5.0.1-1
monodevelop-debugger-gdb 5.0.1-1
art-sharp 2.24.2-4
gconf-sharp 2.24.2-4
gconf-sharp-peditors 2.24.2-4
gnome-sharp 2.24.2-4
gnome-vfs-sharp 2.24.2-4
gtk-sharp-2 2.12.22-1
libgnome-sharp 2.24.2-4

I can't open it by clicking on the "designer" tab, only by opening the window in the "User Interface" branch of the solution tree. Once it's open, I can edit a window's properties, but I can't add any widgets to the window - drag and drop doesn't work.

I've tried running from the cmd line and had no messages.

A web search threw up a similar issue on a Linux Mint forum thread from four years ago, that had no response.

Any suggestions as to how I should debug this?

Edit: search result clarification.

Last edited by skanky (2014-11-08 22:33:28)

skanky · 2014-11-10 18:17:33

I've found this facility: http://monodevelop.com/Developers/Articles/Logging which I should have spotted before.
It resulted in some glib errors/warnings being displayed:

GLib-Critical: Source ID XXX was not found when attempting to remove it

A search suggests[1] that this is a side-effect of md using a treeview control and nothing connected.

Not sure how many use monodevelop (not many, I should think), but has anyone else seen this behaviour?
There's nothing on their bug tracker and it's fundamental enough for me to think that it must be a foible peculiar to my system.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/231 … -remove-it

bartonc · 2014-11-29 08:23:25

Your GTK2 theme may be something that you want to play with, but I've never experienced anything other that look & feel issues with mine (currently Clear Looks phenix).

We need to loby the maintainer of The official package to update that package.
The offical release is bound to have fewer (if any) issues. I'm running 5.7 from github without issue.
I've posted my PKGBUILD here.

pacman -Qi $(pacman -Qsq mono) | grep -Ei "(name|version)"
Name : art-sharp
Version : 2.24.2-4
Name : gconf-sharp
Version : 2.24.2-4
Name : gconf-sharp-peditors
Version : 2.24.2-4
Name : gnome-vfs-sharp
Version : 2.24.2-4
Name : libgnome-sharp
Version : 2.24.2-4
Name : mono
Version : 3.10.0-1
Name : mono-addins
Version : 1.1-1
Name : mono-tools
Version : 3.10-1
Name : monodevelop-git
Version : r32430.4504f30-1
Name : ttf-google-fonts
Version : 20131228-1
Name : webkit-sharp
Version : 0.3-5
Name : xsp
Version : 3.0.11-1

Last edited by bartonc (2014-11-29 08:49:51)

skanky · 2014-11-29 10:51:11

Many thanks for this. I should have thought to try monodevelop-git earlier.
I've just tried our monodevelop-git package and g0t the same build error as Ba7a7chy in the comments at the package page.

So I installed the AUR package, nuget-cert and it worked.

However, my problem persists, unfortunately. I don't have a gtk theme set-up as far as I know. I'll have a look at that when I next get a chance.

Here's my equivalent list:

 pacman -Qi $(pacman -Qsq mono) | grep -Ei "(name|version)"
Name           : art-sharp
Version        : 2.24.2-4
Name           : dina-font
Version        : 2.92-4
Name           : gconf-sharp
Version        : 2.24.2-4
Name           : gconf-sharp-peditors
Version        : 2.24.2-4
Name           : gnome-vfs-sharp
Version        : 2.24.2-4
Name           : libgnome-sharp
Version        : 2.24.2-4
Name           : mono
Version        : 3.10.0-1
Name           : mono-addins
Version        : 1.1-1
Name           : mono-tools
Version        : 3.10-1
Name           : terminus-font
Version        : 4.39-1
Name           : webkit-sharp
Version        : 0.3-5
Name           : xsp
Version        : 3.0.11-1

bartonc · 2014-12-19 06:52:08

@skanky: AUR has been updated. Now at 5.8 with a modern PKGBUIL and all depends
-- Including ['gnome-sharp'] which is not picked up the the pacman query that I gave --.
I wonder if installing gnome-themes-standard will have the desired effect.
That package may just pull in any missing gtk pieces if not supply them. BTW my DE is Cinnamon.

Out of curiosity I checked this:

$ ls /usr/lib/monodevelop/AddIns/MonoDevelop.GtkCore
total 1460
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Nov  9 23:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root   4096 Nov  9 23:11 ..
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 652288 Nov  9 23:08 libstetic.dll
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    541 Nov  9 23:08 libstetic.dll.config
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 209201 Nov  9 23:08 libstetic.dll.mdb
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 235520 Nov  9 23:08 libsteticui.dll
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    541 Nov  9 23:08 libsteticui.dll.config
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 109125 Nov  9 23:08 libsteticui.dll.mdb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    352 Nov  9 23:08 libsteticui.xml
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    524 Nov  9 23:08 libstetic.xml
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 194048 Nov  9 23:08 MonoDevelop.GtkCore.dll
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  50746 Nov  9 23:08 MonoDevelop.GtkCore.dll.mdb
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   1064 Nov  9 23:08 MonoDevelop.GtkCore.xml

I wonder if your builds, thus far, have been grabbing all of the AddIns.

Last edited by bartonc (2014-12-19 09:37:17)

skanky · 2014-12-19 10:08:46

Thank you for the update. I've now updated to the latest version of mondevelop-git (thanks for the heads-up). Still get the same behaviour.

I've checked and have gnome-themes-standard installed. I've also got all the items in that directory, as listed. Nice ideas though and will give me another line of enquiry when I get the time - I'm hoping to get a bit more time to look into this over the next couple of weeks (very busy with work and other stuff at the moment). I may though, end up moving this developement stuff to another machine - not specifically to fix it, but it might sort it out as a side-effect.

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Monodevelop Stetic Designer Not Working

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