I was posting about it around April 13, 2021: https://groups.google.com/g/leo-editor/c/Pf4Wh0IT6H4/m/EHJFY86VAQAJ On Monday, March 7, 2022 at 4:24:50 PM UTC-5 tbp1...@gmail.com wrote:
> It will be fixed after @Edward, myself, or someone else can reliably > reproduce the problem. It happened to me last year - I'm sure it was the > exact same problem since the weird symbols were the same - but for the CTRL > key instead. That went away so I thought that it had been fixed. I know > that it was not purely a Qt problem because I wrote a little pyqt test > program - not running in Leo - and did not get the bad symbols. > > I sympathize because the program is totally unusable this way, but we've > got to find something different about your machine/installation. > > I don't recall your history with this now, but are you able to install it > without pip and try that? The best way would be to clone the git repo and > run that. In the worst case, you could also either install a different > version of Python, or at least create a new virtual environment to get a > clean an install as possible. If I were doing this, I would pip-install > some earlier version of Leo (like 6.3, maybe?) so as to get the > dependencies installed. Then I would run the git-repo clone version. > > If you don't know what any of this means, someone here can walk you > through it, I'm sure. I can tell you that I'd feel crippled if I couldn't > use Leo any more, so I have some idea how you feel! > > > On Monday, March 7, 2022 at 2:06:16 PM UTC-5 gar wrote: > >> Hello, the team! >> >> Can you please tell me what is the status of this issue? Is it going to >> be investigated? Or you failed to reproduce it and threw it away? >> Actually my work with leo is absolutely paralyzed. I use the win-key >> intensively, even for a kind of alt-tab. Leo outlines become dirty even >> when I think that I don't use it. >> Leo's recent master suffers from it, pip's 6.5 and 6.4 too. The latest >> version where it doesnt is 6.3. >> >> Maybe the best solution is to downgrade to some version where it is >> absent and never upgrade. I agree with that too - in case this issue is not >> going to be fixed. >> User pbg at Dec'18 reported that he succeeded to reproduce it and >> provided you with the trace. Is anything else needed? >> >> Thanks. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/de6cf53c-f660-4a44-9083-faac311b5553n%40googlegroups.com.
