[Tux4kids-tuxtype-dev] No settings.txt in Mint 19 64 bit (1.8.3-2)

[David Bruce]

Hi Peter,

I haven't worked on tuxtype for several years, but I installed in just
now on my ubuntu 18.04 machine and it starts correctly.  I do know
that ~/.tuxtype/settings.txt is not a required file - it's been a
while, but from what I recall we just used that to save some
additional config settings.  I got the same message on startup about
that file not being found, but the program then launched successfully
and all the main activities work.

I'm pretty sure your real error is the next line from  Xorg.  I'm
afraid I'm not able to help much with that.  Tuxtype and tuxmath both
use SDL 1.2, which is now pretty dated.  I guess you can see if
tuxmath installs and runs.

I'm cc'ing the tuxpaint list as tuxpaint is still actively developed,
and someone there may know more about issues related to SDL and Xorg.

Regards - David

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 8:45 PM Peter Kuykendall
<peterkuykendall at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just installed this and it won't start.  It appears that it didn't create settings.txt.  Is there a workaround?
>
> tech at tech-PC:~$ sudo apt-get install tuxtype
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Recommended packages:
>   fonts-sil-doulos
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   tuxtype
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0 B/93.9 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 293 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Selecting previously unselected package tuxtype.
> (Reading database ... 343921 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack .../tuxtype_1.8.3-2_amd64.deb ...
> Unpacking tuxtype (1.8.3-2) ...
> Setting up tuxtype (1.8.3-2) ...
> Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1.1) ...
> Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
> Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23+linuxmint6) ...
> Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1) ...
> tech at tech-PC:~$ tuxtype
> load_settings_filename(): no theme-specific settings found: /home/tech/.tuxtype/settings.txt
> X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  151 (XFree86-VidModeExtension)
>   Minor opcode of failed request:  10 (XF86VidModeSwitchToMode)
>   Value in failed request:  0x2bd
>   Serial number of failed request:  131
>   Current serial number in output stream:  133
> tech at tech-PC:~$ ls -lh /home/tech/.tuxtype
> total 0
> tech at tech-PC:~$
>
> Thanks
>
> Peter Kuykendall
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