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

[Peter Kuykendall]

Thanks David.  You're still tagged as the point of contact, lucky guy LOL.
Perhaps the current team will update that.

>From AUTHORS
Tux Typing Original Author:
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Sam Hart <hart at geekcomix.com>

Current Maintainer and Lead Coder:
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David Bruce <davidstuartbruce at gmail.com>


Peter Kuykendall
7659 S. Rosemary Circle
Centennial, CO 80112

Voice: 720-663-7581


On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 8:35 PM David Bruce <davidstuartbruce at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> > 7659 S. Rosemary Circle
> > Centennial, CO 80112
> >
> > Voice: 720-663-7581
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>
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> David Bruce
>
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