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wyattb

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Registered: 2025-06-18

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[SOLVED] F3D gives error message when reading configuration file

Running latest kubuntu (KDE/Ubuntu) F3D 2.2.1

Any thoughts. Here is the command and output:

~$ f3d --config ~/config.json

options must be a string, a boolean or a number

Here is my config.json without any indentations in case there are hidden bad characters.

[
{
"options": {
"light-intensity": 2.0
}
}
]

Last edited by wyattb (2025-06-18 17:19:44)

gromit

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Re: [SOLVED] F3D gives error message when reading configuration file

Did you try to quote the two already?

[
    {
        "options": {
            "light-intensity": "2.0"
        }
    }
]

wyattb

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Registered: 2025-06-18

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Re: [SOLVED] F3D gives error message when reading configuration file

I did not, because I got everything off their website. But I did something better. I installed the  3.x version and works fine. Thanks!

GloW_on_dub

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Re: [SOLVED] F3D gives error message when reading configuration file

F3D dev here. The doc on the website is for the last release 3.1 (well, technically for master, but that another story), not 2.2.1, which uses another format for config file.

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] F3D gives error message when reading configuration file

Moderator Note

OP doesn't appear to be using archlinux, but arch does have an F3D package and this thread has useful info.
Moving to GNU/Linux Discussion .

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