Working browser widget/linux-flavour combinations?

[panagiotis merakos]

Hi all,

The Browser widget does work as expected in the *64-bit* Linux versions we
officially support. I have an Ubuntu 16.04 VM and I can confirm this.

**However**, several users have reported some strange problems on
particular Linux distros (including Ubuntu 16.04), which although they seem
unrelated to each other, they are actually related.

One of those problems is the "something" dialog. Another problem is the
non-functional Dictionary (note that the Dictionary uses the Browser
widget).

The common factor of all those problems seems to be locale-related. If you
see those problems, the workaround is to launch LC from the terminal using
this command:

LC_ALL= LC_NUMERIC=C "path/to/livecode_executable"

For anyone interested, see bug
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16848 and all the bugs that are
mentioned there.

Best regards,
Panos
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On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 8:54 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> However "showcase" the browser widget may be you should remember that, as
> far as I can see,
> Linux versions come a long way down the food chain.
>
> Richmond.
>
>
> On 3/9/17 10:42 pm, hh via use-livecode wrote:
>
>> Thanks Richmond.
>>
>> There are bug reports from Sept 2016 reporting this 'something'-answer you
>> describe above.
>>
>> I tested with Mint 173 to latest, 32bit. Always had to kill LC 8/9 after
>> the
>> the something-dialog, exactly as reported to LQCC (#17715 and links
>> there).
>>
>> I can not believe that nothing changed since then: The browser widget is a
>> 'showcase'-member of all LC advertising. Should at least basically work.
>>
>> Richmond wrote:
>>> Xubuntu 16.04 64-bit, 8.1.3: "something". Had to KILL Livecode.
>>> As above, 9.0.0 DP-6: no obvious difference. Tut, tut, tut.
>>>
>>
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