I am having an issue with Ardour 9.8.0, from AV Linux.
The Audio/MIDI Setup window works correctly for creating a session, but afterwards always remains empty when summoned. According to the forums, a Wayland problem caused this in 2023, but I’m using Enlightenment (so there’s no Wayland).
This is the 2023 problem that was solved:
The 2023 problem was also with an AMD graphics backend, but I have an Intel controller:
My Audio/MIDI Setup window isn’t resizable, and that was the root cause in the Wayland case, but could that be the explanation here, and is there anything I can do about it? I notice also that various other windows are not resizable, including the Big Clock and Audio Connections, but these seem to work properly.
However, unlike what was said in 2023, saving and reopening my session does not fix the problem, and clicking blindly on the window doesn’t do anything either.
Any ideas? TIA
Ardour Preferences > Appearance > Quirks > Allow resizing of the engine dialogs
“On some XWayland systems the engine-dialog is blank when shown a second time (from the main menu). Allowing to resize the window works around this oddity.”
I had the blank Audio/MIDI setup syndrome for a long time, but I’m not using Wayland. I’m on X11 (Debian 13 + KDE Plasma). Strangely, enabling this workaround fixed the issue for me.
Thank you, that workaround in the Quirks does the trick on my system completely, and thank you for the prompt response too.
I notice now (and had seen before) that the Preferences window doesn’t close, and seems to be fixed at full-screen size. I couldn’t see any options relating to the Preferences window itself.
Iconifying the window gets it out of the way though so there’s an easy workaround.
That is odd. is It perhaps larger than you screen?
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PS. you could attach the preferences-window to the main window (Menu > Window > Preferences > Attach) just like the other tabbed windows (Editor, Mixer, Recorder,…), and then cycle though them (Ctrl + page-up/down).
In Enlightenment, after installing a program, the top bar of the newly installed application sometimes appears outside the visible screen area upon its first launch, making it impossible to grab with the mouse. Pressing Alt and clicking inside the program window allows you to move it. Additionally, window focus issues sometimes occur—for instance, you might be unable to move a window because another one in the background is waiting for input.
I can live with that, because everything else runs wonderfully stably in AV Linux.
Yes, the window titlebar offscreen is an annoying quirk, Alt+drag moves them but it’s silly that this is needed. The developer seems to not acknowledge as a real problem. For the record AVL’s next ISO (25.3) will feature both Enlightenment and XFCE4 for those who find such quirks insufferable.