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Old 07-12-2024, 05:13 PM   #42
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Sigil 2.3.0 on Linux

I spent a few hours today doing my usual tasks on a variety of books with the new build. Mostly, everything worked perfectly, but I found a few things:

I usually run Sigil maximised. When first opened, Sigil will open a maximised window, but an area to the right is blank. In other words, Sigil does not take up its full window. Clicking the maximise/resize window control twice fixes it. If I quit Sigil with a smaller window, it restarts in a smaller window and fills it; then maximising works fine.

PageEdit does not work, does not start. I expect I'll need a new version compiled against the Qt6.7 files. (I don't use it much, only to check a page view.)

When a search causes a new file preview to be displayed, sometimes the text in the preview is scrunched over to the left. This happens when there is an image in that file that is not coded to stay in bounds -- some large image with no code to make it display properly. This comes and goes, it is hard to repeat exactly. I don't think I've ever seen it in older versions. In the same text file, once the text is pulled back with the bottom slider, scrolling up and down past the image does not cause this...only a search.

In general, the preview screen seems to flicker and flash quite a bit, I haven't noticed this in 2.2. Hard to describe; as you do other work like maybe remove a tag pair, it happens out of the corner of your eye. A subtle thing. Black vertical bars seem to flicker on the extreme right.

As I was installing the new Qt files, I saw some file with Wayland mentioned go by, So I booted up in Wayland to see how it worked (I normally don't use it). Well, everything looks subtly different but it all seems to work OK. The one thing that is really annoying is pop-up boxes (like to inset an ID) have no borders at all and are hard to see. But I doubt Wayland stuff will be a priority any time soon.

Pictures attached to show all the above, including my video settings.

If anything else comes up, I'll post it.
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