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Bug #1385020
Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1385020

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Michael Stout (mrroboto40571) wrote on 2015-07-01:

I confirm that I also have been having text entry issues with kicad since I started 2 months ago on a Ubuntu 14.10 machine. Cursor movement, delete, and backspace don't work correctly.

My workaround#1 : move mouse to highlight text and simply type over it.

My workaround#2 : in Ubuntu/Unity if I click on the Unity icon to search for another application this somehow clears the buffer of stored up backspaces/cursor movement. So for example, I'll add text to EESCHEMA "Stuff this component innn case of" and I'll want to delete the repeated n's. If I open the text to edit, I press the left arrow 5 times and find the cursor has not moved at all. I then click on the Unity Launcher icon and if I move focus back to the kicad/eeschema window, the cursor has suddenly moved those 5 spaces. The same effect works for delete and backspace.

I have:
Ubuntu 14.10
Unity 7.3.1
using kicad BZR5852 (but it's been doing this ever since I started using kicad 2 months ago)
Wxwidgets 2.8 and 3.0 are present on my system (found from a dpkg -l search)

in case the root of this issue lies with WX widgets, here's what I have:
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii wx-common 3.0.1-3 amd64 wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI
un wx2.8-doc <none> <none> (no description available)
un wx2.8-examples <none> <none> (no description available)
ii wx2.8-headers 2.8.12.1+dfs amd64 wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI
un wx3.0-doc <none> <none> (no description available)
ii wx3.0-headers 3.0.1-3 amd64 wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI
un wxpython2.6-0 <none> <none> (no description available)

I am not an experienced Ubuntu nor Linux in general user. Any questions to me will have to be explicit and simplified. My WAR#1 has worked but it is a pain in the butt when there is a long string of text I must enter such as the painful BOM generation add on command line.

I confirm that I also have been having text entry issues with kicad since I started 2 months ago on a Ubuntu 14.10 machine.  Cursor movement, delete, and backspace don't work correctly.

My workaround#1 :  move mouse to highlight text and simply type over it.

My workaround#2 : in Ubuntu/Unity if I click on the Unity icon to search for another application this somehow clears the buffer of stored up backspaces/cursor movement.  So for example, I'll add text to EESCHEMA "Stuff this component innn case of" and I'll want to delete the repeated n's.  If I open the text to edit, I press the left arrow 5 times and find the cursor has not moved at all.  I then click on the Unity Launcher icon and if I move focus back to the kicad/eeschema window, the cursor has suddenly moved those 5 spaces.  The same effect works for delete and backspace.

in case the root of this issue lies with WX widgets, here's what I have:
||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
+++-==============-============-============-=================================
ii  wx-common      3.0.1-3      amd64        wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI 
un  wx2.8-doc      <none>       <none>       (no description available)
un  wx2.8-examples <none>       <none>       (no description available)
ii  wx2.8-headers  2.8.12.1+dfs amd64        wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI 
un  wx3.0-doc      <none>       <none>       (no description available)
ii  wx3.0-headers  3.0.1-3      amd64        wxWidgets Cross-platform C++ GUI 
un  wxpython2.6-0  <none>       <none>       (no description available)

I am not an experienced Ubuntu nor Linux in general user.  Any questions to me will have to be explicit and simplified.  My WAR#1 has worked but it is a pain in the butt when there is a long string of text I must enter such as the painful BOM generation add on command line.