Kylix 3 Startup Problems
Sam Waters
to expect a not-too-difficult installation of Kylix... The actual
installation process completed easily enough (most likely due to the
right choices made from other people's experiences), but now I'm
encountering problems I never heard of before, and can't find any
mention of them even with specific searches.
I knew from Andreas's posts not to use kernels later than 2.6.10, but I
wanted the latest, stablest, cleanest distro possible that would run
Kylix. One can find several posts describing success with Slackware 10,
so that's what I chose; using both kernels 2.4.26 and 2.6.7, and KDE of
course. The following behaviors are the same under both kernels.
I haven't even gotten far enough to find any "development difficulties"
because of the severe problems with the user interface--the keyboard
and the video. The video (under Kylix only) is much slower than
anything else running on the system; perhaps that's due to Wine? or
more accurately(?), a 3+ year old Wine running on a newer distro?
BUT THE KEYBOARD problems are enough to drive me insane. Many of the
most used keystroke sequences DON'T WORK, or do weird things while they
don't work <G>! A few examples, in order of discovery: F12 does *not*
(usually) toggle between the form and Code Editor. It normally flickers
the form and leaves you back where you were. Ctrl-F9 should compile the
project, but it doesn't; it doesn't seem to do anything. Invoking that
function from the menu does work, and F9 does compile and run the
project. AND, if you try to reset a running program with Ctrl-F2, it
doesn't reset, it plays hide-and-seek with all the various Kylix
windows. Again, doing it from the menus works.
Does anyone know what's going on here? and how to FIX IT?
Could Wine be the problem for all of it? Is it OK to replace with a
more recent version, or is that intimately tied with the "old" Kylix?
(It's installed in Borland's Kylix directories.)
Thank you very much for any help with this very distressing
development, before I even get to developing!
siegfriedn
If so try setting the Keyboard Shortcut Scheme (In the Control Center -
Regional& accessibility -> Keyboard Shortcuts) to the Windows Scheme and
try again. For me is solved things like Crtl-F7 during debug for example.
Siegs
siegfriedn
Also check out this link to some google cached postings regarding the
F12 toggle problem.
look for 'Focus Stealing'
Siegs
Sam Waters
FANTASTIC!! I applied both fixes immediately without testing first one
and then the other. THEY WORKED perfectly. And it feels WONDERFUL to
have my beloved Delphi on Linux!
Thank you VERY MUCH!!
Sam