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ahura

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Registered: 2016-02-20

Posts: 57

Menus not working in TexStudio and TeXmaker

I'm experiencing a weird problem with my LaTeX editor, TeXstudio (TeXmaker exhibits the same behavior). When I click the drop-down menu headings (like "File", "Edit", etc.), the heading is highlighted, but no menu appears.
Running texstudio from a terminal gives

** (texstudio:1958): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to accessibility bus: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-8l7pKyq79O: Connection refused
XmbTextListToTextProperty result code -2
XmbTextListToTextProperty result code -2
XmbTextListToTextProperty result code -2
XmbTextListToTextProperty result code -2
XmbTextListToTextProperty result code -2

I'm having trouble figuring out what this means and if it's related to the problem. Any help is very welcome.

GenkiSky

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Registered: 2017-04-04

Posts: 82

Re: Menus not working in TexStudio and TeXmaker

Searching online for "XmbTextListToTextProperty result code -2" has many hits online, with various suggestions on things to try. It would help if you said which ones you looked at and tried. Generally it seems to be an issue with QT applications and localization.

cmorgenstern

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Registered: 2012-06-21

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Re: Menus not working in TexStudio and TeXmaker

Similar issue was reported here on Antergos (Arch derivative). Try the following per the forum suggestion:

$ sudo pacman -S vte3

Then as root:

# locale-gen

Last edited by cmorgenstern (2017-08-27 22:17:25)

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ahura

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Registered: 2016-02-20

Posts: 57

Re: Menus not working in TexStudio and TeXmaker

Thanks, this fixed the menu problem, but I'm still getting the terminal error when launching TeXstudio.