Beta Testers for Sigil-2.3.0 Needed

[retiredbiker]

Originally Posted by KevinH

If you can recreate a sample epub (single page) that shows the issue that would help.

- flashing

- Your previously compiled PageEdit with system Qt should continue to work,

So I tried to make a small epub that would do the preview text-->left thing with a big image; I could not repeat it with a new book. Preview worked perfectly with even huge un-coded images: text properly displayed and put the image off to the right and scrollable.. (I was originally testing on an old, old book that I knew was a mess, so something else likely was wrong. Hardly worth chasing.)

Turned off hardware acceleration and the flashing is gone. Not much acceleration needed in an editor anyway!

PageEdit will not start from within Sigil 2.3...it just ignores clicking on the X. I checked the path and it is OK, and of course I can run PageEdit from the CL.

Cheers!

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by retiredbiker

Yep, I turned that off and all the flicker stuff goes away.

The funny start-up screen is still there.

Any debug output when starting Sigil from a terminal? You may see some WebEngine DIR_APP_DICTIONARIES noise, but it can be safely ignored.

I'm assuming you're using the kernel's built-in AMD Radeon drivers? It is my understanding that most people don't resort to proprietary drivers for Radeon like they do for Nvidia.

[DiapDealer]

Originally Posted by retiredbiker

PageEdit will not start from within Sigil 2.3...it just ignores clicking on the X. I checked the path and it is OK, and of course I can run PageEdit from the CL.

This doesn't surprise me now that I think about it. If both were using the system Qt, this would just work. But the Sigil launch script diddles $LD_LIBRARY_PATH in order to force the usage of the Qt that sigil was built with. In this case that's 6.7.2. But PageEdit was built against 6.2.4 and is being forced to abide by the current $LD_LIBRARY_PATH that Sigil set.

Let me look at how Sigil launches PageEdit.

[retiredbiker]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Any debug output when starting Sigil from a terminal? You may see some WebEngine DIR_APP_DICTIONARIES noise, but it can be safely ignored.

I'm assuming you're using the kernel's built-in AMD Radeon drivers? It is my understanding that most people don't resort to proprietary drivers for Radeon like they do for Nvidia.

No, all the terminal gives is

Debug: initial styleHints colorScheme:  Qt::ColorScheme::Light
Warning: Path override failed for key base::DIR_APP_DICTIONARIES and path '/usr/local/lib/sigil/qtwebengine_dictionaries'
Path override failed for key base::DIR_APP_DICTIONARIES and path '/opt/qt6/6.7.2/gcc_64/libexec/qtwebengine_dictionaries'
Path override failed for key base::DIR_APP_DICTIONARIES and path '/opt/qt6/6.7.2/gcc_64/libexec/qtwebengine_dictionaries'

No, I never touch the video drivers. This box is from System76 and less than a year old, so I can't see the video becoming obsolete...but who knows in this world!

I do have a non-standard monitor: it is a 42-inch TCL 4K television, run through the hdmi port. It has never given any problems, though.