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ulukai

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Registered: 2009-10-16

Posts: 82

[SOLVED] Tuxguitar - no more colored squares

I use Tuxguitar on 2 Arch machines for quite some time now and am very pleased with it. A couple of days ago I updated my 2 systems via pacman -Syu, it was only 2 weeks ago. Since then, I can't see the colored squares behind the instrument names anymore. They indicate when the instruments play, but all I see is a big empty grey area. Playback is still fine though. Happens on both machines.

Anyone else experiencing this issue? As far as I can tell, some of the most important updates between the time it was working and stopped working are the new 2.6.31.4 kernel and Gnome 2.28. I tried reinstalling tuxguitar, openjdk and also tried with other GTK themes, but all to no avail.

Also another problem that I have since then is that when I clock on tools - plugins - java sound api - configure --> I don't get the window to select a soundbank anymore. Just nothing happens.

Setup box 1:
Pentium 4
1,5 GB RAM
Nvidia FX5900XT
XFCE 4.6.1

Setup laptop2:
HP 6730b
Intel Centrino Duo 2
2 GB RAM
Intel GMA 4500
Gnome 2.28

I use OpenJDK as JRE, Java API for sound playback and Gervill as midi port.

Last edited by ulukai (2009-10-23 18:47:03)

leepesjee

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Registered: 2008-11-06

Posts: 57

Re: [SOLVED] Tuxguitar - no more colored squares

Hi ukukai,
I'm having exactly the same problems. Also using openjdk. I just tried running it with sun jdk/jre. Same issues.

ulukai

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Registered: 2009-10-16

Posts: 82

Re: [SOLVED] Tuxguitar - no more colored squares

I posted this on the Tuxguitar forum and Julian (developer) has found the problem.

Yes, i saw this problem 2 days ago after update my debian testing. this is a SWT issue with this GTK or Cairo version (not exactly sure what of both), they fixed the problem on latest SWT development version, 3.6M2

So you have to download swt 3.6
http://www.eclipse.org/swt/

Uncompress it, and replace the swt.jar that tuxguitar uses to this new one.

http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/forum/5/140 … struments/

It works fine again here

leepesjee

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Registered: 2008-11-06

Posts: 57

Re: [SOLVED] Tuxguitar - no more colored squares

Cool, Tux rocks again!

sim4lin

Member

Registered: 2008-03-09

Posts: 32

Re: [SOLVED] Tuxguitar - no more colored squares

Thanks ulukai,

This fixes a messed up chord editor as well!

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