Re: Accursed backdrop

2015-05-27 Thread Richmond
On 27/05/15 11:19, Mark Waddingham wrote: Last time I was in Embro (about 5 year ago), I saw only Macs in their office. If that is still the case it needs to be corrected. I would recommend a fairly current PC with Debian, and another with Windows 8.1. Yes - we use Macs as the hardware for de

Re: Accursed backdrop

2015-05-27 Thread Malte Brill
Mark wrote > You don't need a PC to run Windows or Linux - just Virtual Machines. While this is certainly true, if the users are anything like me they’ll tend to stay in the VMs host OS as much as possible and only leave the comfort zone to switch to a VM whenever it is necessary / unavoidable.

Re: Accursed backdrop

2015-05-27 Thread Mark Waddingham
Last time I was in Embro (about 5 year ago), I saw only Macs in their office. If that is still the case it needs to be corrected. I would recommend a fairly current PC with Debian, and another with Windows 8.1. Yes - we use Macs as the hardware for development. The reason is simple - it is th

Re: Accursed backdrop

2015-05-26 Thread Bob Sneidar
None that actually matter. ;-P Bob S On May 26, 2015, at 10:08 , Richmond mailto:richmondmathew...@gmail.com>> wrote: I would be interested to know how many of these problems/show-stoppers are confined to Linux. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: Accursed backdrop

2015-05-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: > On 26/05/15 22:17, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> So I know the engine team uses Linux extensively. What I don't know >> is whether IDE team members use Linux at least a full day each week, >> as would seem useful for Windows as well. > > I am sure they don't. > > It might not be a b

Re: Accursed backdrop

2015-05-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/05/15 22:17, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond wrote: > Last time I was in Embro (about 5 year ago), I saw only Macs in their > office. If that is still the case it needs to be corrected. In all fairness, I've corresponded about Linux specifically with Peter, Mark, and others, and had a long

Re: Accursed backdrop

2015-05-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: > Last time I was in Embro (about 5 year ago), I saw only Macs in their > office. If that is still the case it needs to be corrected. In all fairness, I've corresponded about Linux specifically with Peter, Mark, and others, and had a long and pleasant discussion about it in pers

Re: Accursed backdrop

2015-05-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/05/15 21:31, Richard Gaskin wrote: AFAIK the ones I listed here and the subject of this thread, the backdrop issue, are all specific to Linux. There are a few oddities on Windows that may be critical, and perhaps even on Mac, but it would seem that the IDE team presumably uses Macs m

Re: Accursed backdrop

2015-05-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: > On 26/05/15 19:10, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> Ironically, last time I demo'd LC at a conference I had to run my >> presentation using a much older version because I make all my slide >> shows in LC and the current version has serious problems with >> fullscreen on Linux #14638

Re: Accursed backdrop

2015-05-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/05/15 19:10, Richard Gaskin wrote: Mark Wieder wrote: On 05/25/2015 10:57 PM, Richmond wrote: This is a load of #$%^@& and needs to be sorted out: Agreed. I actually hadn't played with the backdrop on linux in 7x before. I got the same results as you, with the exception that I was usin

Re: Accursed backdrop

2015-05-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: On 05/25/2015 10:57 PM, Richmond wrote: This is a load of #$%^@& and needs to be sorted out: Agreed. I actually hadn't played with the backdrop on linux in 7x before. I got the same results as you, with the exception that I was using two monitors, so I brought up a terminal

Re: Accursed backdrop

2015-05-26 Thread Malte Brill
I guess this is related to bug #13935 Best, Malte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livec

Re: Accursed backdrop

2015-05-25 Thread Mark Wieder
On 05/25/2015 10:57 PM, Richmond wrote: This is a load of #$%^@& and needs to be sorted out: Agreed. I actually hadn't played with the backdrop on linux in 7x before. I got the same results as you, with the exception that I was using two monitors, so I brought up a terminal prompt in the sec

Re: Accursed backdrop

2015-05-25 Thread Richmond
On 05/25/2015 05:03 PM, Roger Eller wrote: Why only one machine is affected remains a mystery. You can either uncheck the backdrop in the menu (one of the main menus I think, not prefs), Thanks; found that. or use the command - set the backdrop to empty. ~Roger On May 25, 2015 9:29 AM,

Re: Accursed backdrop

2015-05-25 Thread Roger Eller
Why only one machine is affected remains a mystery. You can either uncheck the backdrop in the menu (one of the main menus I think, not prefs), or use the command - set the backdrop to empty. ~Roger On May 25, 2015 9:29 AM, "Richmond" wrote: > I have just installed the Community version of LC 7