[xcrysden] xcrysden not starting with fedora 34 (gnome 40)

[Rudra Banerjee]

Dear Gavin,
Thank you very much for the time you have spend to help me on this issue. If you have not deleted the fedora virtual box, may I request you to update fedora 34 (`sudo dnf update`)? I am requesting this because, during the update, you will see that xorg-x11-utils is replaced by some other packages. After that you will probably have the same problem as I am facing.

If you kindly check and find the same behaviour, we may ask Tony's help, beside creating a bug report in fedora bugzilla,

Regards,
Rudra
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From: Rudra Banerjee <bnrj.rudra at live.com>
Sent: 30 April 2021 20:39
To: XCrySDen mailing list <xcrysden at democritos.it>
Subject: Re: [xcrysden] xcrysden not starting with fedora 34 (gnome 40)

Dear Gavin,
May I request you to confirm your virtualbox installation is in wayland? I have tried exact same process, and got the same error as notified.
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From: xcrysden-bounces at democritos.it <xcrysden-bounces at democritos.it> on behalf of Gavin Abo <gsabo at crimson.ua.edu>
Sent: 30 April 2021 16:00
To: xcrysden at democritos.it <xcrysden at democritos.it>
Subject: Re: [xcrysden] xcrysden not starting with fedora 34 (gnome 40)


I can now confirm it also worked for me when I clicked the gear icon on the login screen on Fedora 34 and selected "GNOME on Xorg" following the Fedora documentation at:


https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/configuring-xorg-as-default-gnome-session/


I got the xcrysden-1.6.2-linux_x86_64-shared.tar.gz at


http://www.xcrysden.org/Download.html


and decompressed it (tar xvf xcrysden-1.6.2-linux_x86_64-shared.tar.gz).


I got the Togl2.0-8.4-Linux64.tar.gz at


https://sourceforge.net/projects/togl/files/Togl/2.0/


and decompressed it (tar xvf Togl2.0-8.4-Linux64.tar.gz).


In the extracted Togl2.0-8.4-Linux\lib\Togl2.0 directory, I created a symbolic link (ln -s libTogl2.0.so libTogl.0.2) following the post at:


http://www.democritos.it/pipermail/xcrysden/2020-February/001980.html


I set XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR in my .bashrc:


export XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR=/home/username/xcrysden-1.6.2-bin-shared
export PATH=$PATH:$XCRYSDEN_TOPDIR


I set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the Togl2.0-8.4-Linux\lib\Togl2.0 directory following the post at:


http://www.democritos.it/pipermail/xcrysden/2020-February/001982.html


I closed and opened a new terminal to load the new .bashrc settings.


Finally, it opened without error when I ran in a terminal the command: xcrysden


On 4/30/2021 3:35 AM, Gavin Abo wrote:

Thanks as I wasn't aware that Fedora switched Xorg to Wayland.  That might explain why I had to compile xcrysden following the steps in my previous post below for it to work with Wayland.


There is a lot of interesting information on Wayland.


https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/wayland#XWayland

https://gist.github.com/probonopd/9feb7c20257af5dd915e3a9f2d1f2277

https://www.osnews.com/story/132975/think-twice-before-abandoning-xorg-wayland-breaks-everything/


I haven't tried following Fedora's documentation myself yet to switch Wayland to XOrg to see if the xcrysden 1.6.2 binary package (xcrysden-1.6.2-linux_x86_64-shared.tar.gz) will run on my computer with having to compile it with (xcrysden-1.6.2.tar.gz).


https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/configuring-xorg-as-default-gnome-session/


On 4/29/2021 11:56 PM, Rudra Banerjee wrote:
Dear all, I confirm that the problem reported is problem due to Wayland. in xorg, it is working fine.
Is there any solution please?
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