[SOLVED] official audacity in endeavouros has truncated

andrewysk · 12-05-2020, 11:18 AM

Hii,

I just installed audacity from official repo.. but how come the "device tool bar" is always half clipped off ?
I have to drag it out and adjust it so that the whole wordings are complete.. not half gone.

Any idea how to remove this imperfection ?

Please refer to the device too bar at the mouse pointed area.. it is half gone..

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Thanks

Brains · 12-05-2020, 11:48 AM

I've seen this before, and if I remember correctly, installing proprietary graphics driver fixed it.

rnturn · 12-05-2020, 12:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewysk

Hii,

I just installed audacity from official repo.. but how come the "device tool bar" is always half clipped off ?
I have to drag it out and adjust it so that the whole wordings are complete.. not half gone.

Any idea how to remove this imperfection ?

Please refer to the device too bar at the mouse pointed area.. it is half gone..
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Thanks

Based on the attached screen capture, it looks like it's got something to do with the menu font size you're using. On openSUSE+nouveau (my ancient Nvidia card has no current driver) the only display artifact I find annoying is that that series of drop down menu buttons are, initially, too narrow to fully display the selected option. Unless I drag the little divider at the end of that menubar over to the right and the button width is lengthened, the text in the buttons is truncated. My menu fonts are small enough that the bottom of the text is not getting lopped off.

What distribution and video card+driver are you using? Could be useful information for others who might be experiencing the same thing. (In case this is something graphics driver-related as suggested above.)

Cheers...

andrewysk · 12-05-2020, 12:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brains

I've seen this before, and if I remember correctly, installing proprietary graphics driver fixed it.

Weird isn't it.. other all good, only that particular tool bar is not.. how come that has to do with graphic card driver ? oh well.. will try your method.. but not now.. too much thing todo to learn to install graphic driver.. never done that before.. sound's complicated.. lol

Thanks for your opinion and advice.

andrewysk · 12-05-2020, 12:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rnturn

Based on the attached screen capture, it looks like it's got something to do with the menu font size you're using. On openSUSE+nouveau (my ancient Nvidia card has no current driver) the only display artifact I find annoying is that that series of drop down menu buttons are, initially, too narrow to fully display the selected option. Unless I drag the little divider at the end of that menubar over to the right and the button width is lengthened, the text in the buttons is truncated. My menu fonts are small enough that the bottom of the text is not getting lopped off.

What distribution and video card+driver are you using? Could be useful information for others who might be experiencing the same thing. (In case this is something graphics driver-related as suggested above.)

Cheers...

By "distribution" you meant which linux ? sorry i don't get you by distribution.
As for video card and driver, i am using MSI laptop GP602QE Leopard.. which is using dual graphic card with nvidia 940M (shared memory).
Right now it is constantly using Nvidia card (the led color indicate either build-in card - blue led, nvidia - red led).

Code:

$ inxi -G
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel 
           Device-2: NVIDIA GM108M [GeForce 940M] driver: nvidia v: 455.45.01 
           Device-3: Acer MSI Integrated Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.9 driver: intel,nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 
           1: 1920x1080~60Hz 2: 1920x1080~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4600 (HSW GT2) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.2.3

Brains · 12-05-2020, 12:28 PM

Likely not a graphics driver issue, it appears you have Nvidia 455.45.01 installed.

Quote:

OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4600

The quote above suggests you were using the Intel graphics when the inxi command was run.

andrewysk · 12-05-2020, 12:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brains

Likely not a graphics driver issue, it appears you have Nvidia 455.45.01 installed.

The quote above suggests you were using the Intel graphics when the inxi command was run.

Really ?!

I only know how to punch the buttons and paste the display, but do not really know how to analyze the result.
Can you pls teach me what does those means.. how do you tell that the moment i execute the inxi command it is using build in video card ? and that 455.45.01.. is that the latest version ? else how do you know it could be not the driver issue ?

If what you said about that my laptop is using build-in video card instead of nvidia.. than i need to learn how to swicth it to nvidia..

The reason why the LED is red color instead blue , yet you said it is not using nvidia.. It is the linux - hardware issue.

You see, my wifi is software off, but my wifi button is lighted up all the time.
I have my touch pad dedicated hardware button is on, but my touch pad is actually not active..

Brains · 12-05-2020, 12:55 PM

The latest stable Nvidia driver released Dec. 02 2020 is version 457.51
I'm guessing you are running Ubuntu because the 455 version Nvidia driver is being used and may have been installed automatically by simply saying yes during installation to include non-free drivers. The 455 is likely the highest stable driver ported to Linux.

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how do you tell that the moment i execute the inxi command it is using build in video card ?

I have a hardware switch in my MSI GT72 6QD which allows me to use either the Intel or Nvidia, no optimus. Optimus card will switch from either Graphics device based on the application needs. For example, when you are gaming, you need the performance of the discrete Nvidia graphics, when you are hanging out at LQ, you don't need to burn up the battery using Nvidia, so the OS switches to the Intel graphics. Below is my inxi output, the last line shows which graphics device is currently providing the rendering.

Code:

jo@Willy:~$ inxi -G
Graphics:  Device-1: NVIDIA GM204M [GeForce GTX 970M] driver: nvidia v: 450.80.02 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa 
           resolution: 1920x1080~75Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 970M/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 450.80.02

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else how do you know it could be not the driver issue ?

I've never had this issue with the Intel graphics in this MSI, I find the Intel graphics kind of flawless, just not as nice or as fast as Nvidia.

Brains · 12-05-2020, 01:01 PM

You have Optimus technology because both graphics devices showed up in the output of the inxi command, mine only shows the device enabled in computer settings because that's how my unit is set up, to only use one or the other, not both like Optimus.

rnturn · 12-05-2020, 01:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewysk

By "distribution" you meant which linux ? sorry i don't get you by distribution.

Yes. Distribution == "flavor" (if you will). There are a ton of Linux distributions, mostly alike but different enough that, much of the time, it's helpful to mention it when posting.

Cheers...

andrewysk · 12-05-2020, 04:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rnturn

Yes. Distribution == "flavor" (if you will). There are a ton of Linux distributions, mostly alike but different enough that, much of the time, it's helpful to mention it when posting.

Cheers...

Code:

 uname -a
Linux enos-andrew-pc 5.9.10-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun, 22 Nov 2020 14:16:59 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

ondoho · 12-06-2020, 04:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brains

I've seen this before, and if I remember correctly, installing proprietary graphics driver fixed it.

Sorry, but this is nonsense.

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewysk

I just installed audacity from official repo.. but how come the "device tool bar" is always half clipped off ?
I have to drag it out and adjust it so that the whole wordings are complete.. not half gone.

It's got something to do with wxgtk3, a "GTK+3 implementation of wxWidgets API for GUI". IIRC wxwidgets allows to create cross-platform gui widgets and has had problems like that for... years.
Live with it, audacity is still a great tool to have.

andrewysk · 12-06-2020, 01:58 PM

ok ondoho. Got it. Thx.

rnturn · 12-06-2020, 08:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewysk

Code:

 uname -a
Linux enos-andrew-pc 5.9.10-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun, 22 Nov 2020 14:16:59 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

That shows the kernel version.

To get the distribution and release/version:

Code:

$ egrep '^NAME=|^VERSION=' /etc/*releas*

or

Code:

$ grep PRETTY_NAME /etc/*releas*

andrewysk · 12-07-2020, 01:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rnturn

That shows the kernel version.

To get the distribution and release/version:

Code:

$ egrep '^NAME=|^VERSION=' /etc/*releas*

or

Code:

$ grep PRETTY_NAME /etc/*releas*

How does these work ?
I try to look for /etc/*releas* file, but there is none exist, yet your method works! where is the source of the file that grep grab from ?