[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#991642: kicad does not start several modules like eescheme

[Carsten Schoenert]

Hallo Hans,

Am 29.07.21 um 16:30 schrieb Hans-J. Ullrich:
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> installed kicad very fresh on my debian/testing/amd64 and discovered
> a bug.>
> The problem: It is not possible, to start modules like eescheme from
> the kicad surface.>
> This includes eescheme (CTL+E), editing symbols (CTL+L), editing PCB
> layout (CTL+P) and editing footprints (CTL+F). All of them are
> deactivated.>
> The mentioned modules can be started directly, but not out of the
> kicad surface.
I can't reproduce this here locally.
Works everything out of the box within a Gnome3 environment without some
AMD or NVidia graphic card. Just plain Intel inside GPU within the CPU.

As you don't have provided some information about the used hardware and
the used Desktop Environment it's quite difficult to start any analysis.
But I expect some issues probably related to the graphic card hardware
and their required drivers.

You have read already the information within
/usr/share/doc/kicad/README.Debian ?

> As mentioned in the forums, I tried to activate and deactivate
> graphical acceleration settings,but got no success.
You can try to narrow down the root for the issue by using strace to see
what system calls kicad is doing and what is potentially going wrong.

Especially if you call the shortcuts.

Sorry for now there isn't much I can tell you more.

-- 
Regards
Carsten