Hi Fred,
Have you tried just X-Window without xfce4? In FreeBSD there were some
problems with the keyboard in that particular window manager...right now
NetBSD works well for me, but I think I will try again dflybsd... maybe I
can make it work with lxqt or with openbox or something...

On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 9:59 PM vasi vasi <funl...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I don't know what is happening... maybe all have desktop computers or
> Thinkpads.... O also was not able to find any report... and don't know how
> to post a report... maybe they will do something before new version comes
> out...
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 9:57 PM Fred van Stappen <fi...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Ha ok, perfect.
>>
>> I did a search in the issues and commits but no mention about
>> keyboard-mouse problems with Xorg.
>>
>> Could it be that only you, theregister-testers and me have that problem?
>>
>> (Or maybe we are the only testers...) 😉
>>
>> Fre;D
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *De :* vasi vasi <funl...@gmail.com>
>> *Envoyé :* jeudi 15 juin 2023 20:48
>> *À :* General list for MSEide+MSEgui <
>> mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> *Objet :* Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New release?
>>
>> I remember also trying 5.8 and not able to use X... on a real hardware. I
>> don't test on virtual... I effectively install on my wife's laptop :P
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 9:38 PM Fred van Stappen <fi...@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Yes, we hope.
>>
>> But what is strange is that I have try with the previous release 5.8 and
>> the same: no keyboard for Xorg.
>> So maybe it happens only on virtual machine ( I tested with VMware and
>> VirtualBox without luck ) and they dont care about VM, only "direct"
>> machine are concerned.
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *De :* vasi vasi <funl...@gmail.com>
>> *Envoyé :* jeudi 15 juin 2023 20:02
>> *À :* General list for MSEide+MSEgui <
>> mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> *Objet :* Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New release?
>>
>> https://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/projects/dragonfly/roadmap
>>
>> There says that DragonflyBSD 6.6 is out in 15 days... lets hope...
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 8:52 PM Fred van Stappen <fi...@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Vasi.
>>
>> I dont have problems with the mouse on DragonFly (I did the same that you
>> explained).
>>
>> But it is the keyboard...
>>
>> And I am not he only one:
>> https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/06/dragonfly_bsd_6_4/
>>
>> They explain their installation before test, here what they say:
>>
>> ...
>>
>> pkg install xorg
>>
>> The result worked perfectly, although it's extremely basic. So, we
>> installed the slim desktop manager for a graphical login, and rebooted…
>> only to find that once the GUI launched, our keyboard stopped working. So,
>> we reinstalled the OS a *third* time, and this time installed Xfce 4
>> instead. That came up perfectly, but again, the keyboard stopped working.
>>
>> Such are the joys of trying out experimental operating systems, but
>> unfortunately, the pressure of online publishing deadlines meant that our
>> step-by-step process of learning by trying it and breaking things had to
>> end.
>>
>> Fre;D
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *De :* vasi vasi <funl...@gmail.com>
>> *Envoyé :* jeudi 15 juin 2023 19:41
>> *À :* General list for MSEide+MSEgui <
>> mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> *Objet :* Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New release?
>>
>> I've seen your reply, hope that guys will come to help.
>>
>> BTW Fred, you know what blocked my mouse in X-Window under NetBSD? When I
>> added in /etc/rc.conf the following line:
>>
>> wsmoused=YES
>>
>> There is stil wsconsole=YES there but doesn't affect the keyboard in X...
>>
>> It might be true also for DragonflyBSD?
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 7:19 PM Fred van Stappen <fi...@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Hello Vasi.
>>
>> So we went to the same schools!
>> (And if your age is in your Lazarus-forum account, I am older than you 😉
>> )
>>
>> I answered to your post in Lazarus forum (thanks to doing that).
>>
>> https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,55217.msg482695.html#msg482695
>>
>> Wait and see...
>>
>> Fre;D
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *De :* vasi vasi <funl...@gmail.com>
>> *Envoyé :* jeudi 15 juin 2023 15:15
>> *À :* General list for MSEide+MSEgui <
>> mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> *Objet :* Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New release?
>>
>> I also worked for a while with wordstar editor for MS-DOS, loved that
>> piece of software...  Thankfully, UNIX/Linux have their console
>> untouched... and still be able to provide a graphic system...
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 4:12 PM vasi vasi <funl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Most surely I launched them from mc in console... is how I work almost
>> all the time (the first thing I install in an operating system is Midnight
>> Commander) ... that is how I started in computers... from a console... :D
>> old guy here...
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 4:00 PM vasi vasi <funl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Can't remember if I launched my app from console with mc or from file
>> manager... now I have NetBSD installed :(
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 7:52 AM Fred van Stappen <fi...@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Vasi.
>>
>> Ho, nice, I just see your post in Lazarus forum, thanks for the
>> compliments.
>> I hope we will have answers.
>>
>> So you was able to compile and run Lazarus on OpenBSD, good news.
>> Is it ok with Lazarus apps to run with 2xclick or is it the same as
>> msegui apps ?
>>
>> Fre;D
>> ------------------------------
>> *De :* vasi vasi <funl...@gmail.com>
>> *Envoyé :* jeudi 15 juin 2023 06:09
>> *À :* General list for MSEide+MSEgui <
>> mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> *Objet :* Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New release?
>>
>> Fred, thank you for the solution, this comes after I posted on the
>> lazarus forums....
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 15, 2023 at 6:17 AM Fred van Stappen <fi...@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Vasi.
>>
>> I did not find the reason why 2xclick or using a launcher with the
>> application path freeze the application.
>> I suspect that maybe it is because the binary must be hardened (make a
>> PIE executable with parameters "-Cg -k-pie -k-znow" but fpc does not allow
>> it for NetBSD).
>>
>> Anyway, there is a clean workaround using a script or a launcher.
>>
>> The command of the launcher/script would be "xterm -iconic
>> /path/of/application".
>> The application will run as expected, but there will be xterm iconized
>> (that will disapear when closing the app).
>>
>> Fre;d
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *De :* vasi vasi <funl...@gmail.com>
>> *Envoyé :* mercredi 14 juin 2023 03:54
>> *À :* General list for MSEide+MSEgui <
>> mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> *Objet :* Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New release?
>>
>> It is ok Fred, two new operating systems out of three is an excellent
>> score.  And these were harder than DragonflyBSD which can use the FreeBSD
>> repository... Some day,  we will get X to work in dflyBSD, on a different
>> version. You did an amazing job, thank you!
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 3:19 AM Fred van Stappen <fi...@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Vasi and everybody.
>>
>> > Yep, I can confirm the double-click problem. The IDE works when
>> lunched from console.
>>
>> Tested on OpenBSD and there is the same problem too, good in console, not
>> good from 2xclick.
>> Maybe somebody could ask why on fpc forum?
>>
>> Anyway I did some more test (form console) of mseide on OpenBSD and
>> NetBSD and all seems ok.
>>
>> So I updated the binaries in the assets of last release.
>> https://github.com/mse-org/mseide-msegui/releases/tag/5.8.0
>> ( I did have more luck when reinstalling OpenBSD, he allows me to upload
>> now ).
>>
>> But for our friend DragonFly, I did try all, even now install it on a
>> other older computer.
>> Same problem with Xorg: mouse works but not the keyboard. ;-(
>> So, sorry, but I cannot engage the combat.
>>
>> Fre;D
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *De :* vasi vasi <funl...@gmail.com>
>> *Envoyé :* lundi 12 juin 2023 22:37
>> *À :* General list for MSEide+MSEgui <
>> mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> *Objet :* Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New release?
>>
>> Yep, I can confirm the double-click problem. The IDE works when lunched
>> from console.
>> The froze happens with mseide and applications that it creates,. Not with
>> apps from NetBSD repo...
>>
>> Bit I couldn't compile myide project from the apps folder, there is an
>> error in the mseformatstring if I am correct, an internal error...
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 11:10 PM vasi vasi <funl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Rather a bug than anything else... I think is related to the distro CD...
>> which didn't go well for me when I tried to install the system... I
>> succeeded installing it online from their repos... I suspect there are some
>> bugs...
>>
>> They have quite an impressive network stack, but such little errors to go
>> unobserved... It is shocking...
>>
>> Anyway, you deserve lot of rest, to gain two more different operating
>> systems for msegui is quite an accomplishment in such a short time!
>> Congratulations! And thank you very much!
>>
>> BTW, I will see if I have the same problem with the double-click on
>> launching the app...
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 9:03 PM Fred van Stappen <fi...@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Re-hello Vasi.
>>
>> Note that you need to run the application via console, strangely if you
>> 2Xclick on the binary, the application run then freeze.
>> I did try for other binaries (not fpc binaries) and it is the same.
>> Maybe a protection feature (or a bug).
>>
>> Fre;D
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *De :* Fred van Stappen <fi...@hotmail.com>
>> *Envoyé :* lundi 12 juin 2023 19:57
>> *À :* General list for MSEide+MSEgui <
>> mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> *Objet :* Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New release?
>>
>> Hello Vasi.
>>
>> Yep, I finally managed to tame the directory access.
>> Now, with last commit, all (should) works perfectly, included mseide, no
>> more perpetual loop at run, nor crash and file-dialogs are working ok.
>>
>> NetBSD was not easy to tame, mainly because of missing or wrong doc.
>> For example, https://man.netbsd.org/dirent.3
>> The declaration of
>>
>>  uint16_t        d_namlen;
>>
>> is wrong, it should be uint8_t and make the things not work, changing to 
>> uint8 fix it.
>>
>>
>> Also there is a bug with readdir_r(), sometime it never reach to the end of 
>> the directory and does a perpetual loop.
>>
>> I use now readdir(), this one is ok.
>>
>> It was a hard battle but we win.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> Fre;D
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *De :* vasi vasi <funl...@gmail.com>
>> *Envoyé :* lundi 12 juin 2023 17:36
>> *À :* General list for MSEide+MSEgui <
>> mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> *Objet :* Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New release?
>>
>> NetBSD is in full transition to clang but it cannot give up on gcc also,
>> so, there are two different linkers with different configurations and
>> expectations. With resulted programs that cannot find their shared libs so
>> is a total mess... Hopefully, NetBSD 10 will ease things... But not only
>> the BSD world, Linux also... there are efforts towards clang...
>>
>> Until then, even for C programs there are problems... Because I don't
>> know other way, I had to copy-symlink all libraries from X11R7 to /usr/lib,
>> not only six of them (thanks for the pointer)... I'm pretty sure there is a
>> right way to do it?  A manual or something (it wasn't this mess a few years
>> back...)
>>
>> For example for lockf () function, (if I remember correctly, because I am
>> now on the linux laptop) you get errors and if you look at the man manual,
>> things are like in linux, but it ends up that you really must change the
>> value of one parameter the way compiler suggest it... In the end, raylib
>> 4.0 compiles and runs ok but the timing is wrong because of
>> incompatibilities with the timer functions that are yet to be solved... A
>> nice graphical library that we have a pascal translation for. At least, in
>> OpenBSD didn't worked at all (mouse problems in glfw library)...  We really
>> need some pointers from the developers and the porting team... Typhoon
>> Relational Database needed also some interventions... Because, asking users
>> to do what we do is a no-no... But at least, things are working...
>>
>> Otherwise, NetBSD snappier for me than OpenBSD... Your pointers were
>> helpful. I had an X11 freeze trying mseide but I switched to the console
>> and killed the X... No system crash, and I activated the journaling for the
>> file system, just to be sure is recoverable... It works better than in
>> OpenBSD...
>>
>> So, it seems that NetBSD requires the most work from the three of them...
>> but I expect dflyBSD to be as easier as FreeBSD (if we make mouse and
>> keyboard to work on X)...
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 6:18 AM vasi vasi <funl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Excellent progress!
>> I also lost the night configuring NetBSD, setting the firewall,
>> installing apps... now is up and running, just to make those X11 symlinks.
>> Also having some difficulties in compiling a C library, but not mseide
>> related...
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 12:22 AM Fred van Stappen <fi...@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Allez, the very last for tonight.
>>
>> I found the guilty of the icons and images not show and the error message
>> of corrupt X11 atom.
>> It is the image property bmo_graymask.
>> And in all the mseide project all images or images list have
>> "bmo_graymask = true".
>> When setting bmo_graymask := false for all image and image-list the icon
>> and image are ok.
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/mse-org/mseide-msegui/assets/3421249/3452e988-1504-44df-a9e9-84ecdf65806a
>>
>> By the way, I never understood that property "bmo_graymask", setting it
>> to true or false dont change anything on other os.
>>
>> It is a excellent news because fighting with X11 is a other story.
>>
>> So, perfect, the icons and images problems are solved.
>> I will clean all the code, set bmo_graymask := false for eveybody and do
>> the commit tonight.
>>
>> Only remains the access to directory in file dialog that resists.
>> But not for longtime (but not for tonight).
>>
>> Fre;D
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *De :* Fred van Stappen <fi...@hotmail.com>
>> *Envoyé :* dimanche 11 juin 2023 21:06
>> *À :* General list for MSEide+MSEgui <
>> mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> *Objet :* Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New release?
>>
>> Ooops, in previous post, the screenshot was without the run, here the
>> good one.
>> In the terminal, no more cry of X11 for bad atom.
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/mse-org/mseide-msegui/assets/3421249/73bae81e-f28c-4790-b26c-5f408a9a2975
>>
>> Note too that file access via the file-dialog is not yet perfect, for
>> creating the project I have to write the full path + name, playing with the
>> directory-icons was not ok.
>>
>> So, to resume, still some work but it will be possible to terminate the
>> combat.
>>
>> Fre;D
>> ------------------------------
>> *De :* Fred van Stappen <fi...@hotmail.com>
>> *Envoyé :* dimanche 11 juin 2023 20:53
>> *À :* General list for MSEide+MSEgui <
>> mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> *Objet :* Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New release?
>>
>> OK, I created a new project directly in NetBSD using mseide-pre-alpha,
>> with a button and a image on his face.
>> Compiled and run.
>> And there the button has his ico-image:
>>
>> https://github.com/mse-org/mseide-msegui/assets/3421249/ec05ff42-2058-4c2f-9c39-746d9ac4d462
>> And no more cry when passing with mouse on the button about invalid atom.
>>
>> Hum, hum, hum.
>>
>> So could it be that the _mfm.pas gives problem and maybe oblige, for all
>> imported image, to re-do-it when compiling a project in NetBSD?
>>
>> Anyway I have to stop for the moment this exploration.
>> Yes, it is not a combat out-of-the-box, but sure we will win.
>>
>> Fre;D
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *De :* vasi vasi <funl...@gmail.com>
>> *Envoyé :* dimanche 11 juin 2023 19:53
>> *À :* General list for MSEide+MSEgui <
>> mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> *Objet :* Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New release?
>>
>> Yeah, we are back to gtk and its connection to xlib...
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 8:44 PM Fred van Stappen <fi...@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Re-hello Vasi.
>>
>> OK, I found the option in xfce4 to show the icons in menu.
>>
>> But, sadly, the icons in mseide-menu are still not shown.
>> So it seems not to be related.
>>
>> Fre;D
>> ------------------------------
>> *De :* Fred van Stappen <fi...@hotmail.com>
>> *Envoyé :* dimanche 11 juin 2023 19:03
>> *À :* General list for MSEide+MSEgui <
>> mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> *Objet :* Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New release?
>>
>> Hello Vasi.
>>
>> Indeed, there are no icons in xfce4 menus.
>> I think you get something there.
>>
>> I did try to have the icons shown but did not find a option for that.
>>
>> Maybe related with the not shown icons of mseide.
>>
>> If you try the last commit of mseide-msegui, you should compile the
>> mseide and run it.
>> There are 2 things that are not working (maybe more but I did not see).
>>
>>
>>    1. The icons are not shown for menu and in the debugger form.
>>    2. When you pass with the mouse on a menu with icons, there is a
>>    message in console from where you run mseide: "a X11 atom is not
>>    recognized".
>>
>>
>> Maybe both are related.
>>
>> Sadly I have to take a break in msegui exploration this week, loooot of
>> things to do.
>>
>> I hope you will have luck and that you will find the guilties.
>> When I am more free, I will jump back into it.
>>
>> For DragonFly, till now I did not find a solution to make the keyboard
>> work in a Xorg session and so did not try yet msegui on DragonFly.
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>> Fre;D
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *De :* vasi vasi <funl...@gmail.com>
>> *Envoyé :* dimanche 11 juin 2023 15:13
>> *À :* General list for MSEide+MSEgui <
>> mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> *Objet :* Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New release?
>>
>> Fred, your xfce4 shows icons in menus?
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 5:49 AM Fred van Stappen <fi...@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Re-hello Vasi.
>>
>> Ooops, sorry I did only read your first line, I did not see there was a
>> follow.
>>
>> About the reboots, I my case, for testing msegui, I needed lot of reboot!
>>
>> This because at beginning, nothing was working and when finally the
>> compilation was ok, running the ide crashed the system.
>> So boot needed but, because of the "su" bug (that I did not know), I
>> could not login after boot and must reinstall all the system.
>>  And retesting the mseide binary after some change (and using the "su"
>> with Xorg console) still crash, so reboot, without working login, -->
>> reinstall the os, retest, recrash, reinstall, retest, recrash, ... untill I
>> found the guitly: "su" in Xorg console.
>>
>> Now it is ok, if I have a crash, I can reboot without the need to
>> reinstall all because I use "su" in shell-terminal of the system.
>>
>> Fre;D
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *De :* vasi vasi <funl...@gmail.com>
>> *Envoyé :* dimanche 11 juin 2023 01:22
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>> *Objet :* Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New release?
>>
>> Actually, won't help to create a user as part of wheel group, having
>> admin rights and using just sudo or doas? Can'r wait to install it... Last
>> time, I did not had such problems... but it was a different computer...
>>
>> Thanks for the movie, Fred.
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 1:13 AM Sieghard via mseide-msegui-talk <
>> mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Fred,
>>
>> you wrote on Sat, 10 Jun 2023 17:37:44 +0000:
>>
>> > Note that with NetBSD using the "su" command in a Xorg terminal will
>> > destroy the pam config (for login+password). And you will not be able to
>> > login anymore (and must reinstall all the system).
>>
>> Ihat's a really _very_ bad thing...
>>
>> > So for all the things you need a root access, terminate the Xorg session
>> > to come back to terminal-no-gui, login as normal user, then use the "su"
>> > command to do the things that need root access.
>>
>> Does NetBSD's Xorg NOT have the LeftAlt-Ctrl-F<n> hot key function to
>> switch to a text mode console? Or is that just disabled by default, as
>> many Linux Xorg/Gooey^WGUI installations do it by now, somewhere setting
>> a "ServerFlags" section 'Option     "DontVTSwitch"        "true"'?
>>
>> (There's a program, "chvt", that can do the switch too, but that requires
>> root rights to be used, so it's useless here.)
>>
>> Creating a "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" file with just the contents
>> "Section "ServerFlags"
>>         Option      "DontVTSwitch"        "true"
>>  EndSection"
>> _might_ suffice, but it may neccessary to also include a line like
>> '       Option      "ServerLayout" "X.org Configured"'
>> for Xorg to accept it.
>>
>> Be sure to scan Xorg's log file (Xorg.0.log) whether it had the intended
>> effect or just rose a warning or an error. Read the Xorg man page!
>>
>> > Or do this after boot, before to run "startx" command.
>>
>> You do not want to (re)boot a Unix for maintenance purposes only! Do you?
>>
>> (Ooops, THAT was looong-winded thread!)
>>
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>> ------------------------------
>> *De :* Fred van Stappen <fi...@hotmail.com>
>> *Envoyé :* lundi 12 juin 2023 19:57
>> *À :* General list for MSEide+MSEgui <
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>> *Objet :* Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New release?
>>
>> Hello Vasi.
>>
>> Yep, I finally managed to tame the directory access.
>> Now, with last commit, all (should) works perfectly, included mseide, no
>> more perpetual loop at run, nor crash and file-dialogs are working ok.
>>
>> NetBSD was not easy to tame, mainly because of missing or wrong doc.
>> For example, https://man.netbsd.org/dirent.3
>> The declaration of
>>
>>  uint16_t        d_namlen;
>>
>> is wrong, it should be uint8_t and make the things not work, changing to 
>> uint8 fix it.
>>
>>
>> Also there is a bug with readdir_r(), sometime it never reach to the end of 
>> the directory and does a perpetual loop.
>>
>> I use now readdir(), this one is ok.
>>
>> It was a hard battle but we win.
>>
>> Cheers.
>>
>> Fre;D
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *De :* vasi vasi <funl...@gmail.com>
>> *Envoyé :* lundi 12 juin 2023 17:36
>> *À :* General list for MSEide+MSEgui <
>> mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> *Objet :* Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New release?
>>
>> NetBSD is in full transition to clang but it cannot give up on gcc also,
>> so, there are two different linkers with different configurations and
>> expectations. With resulted programs that cannot find their shared libs so
>> is a total mess... Hopefully, NetBSD 10 will ease things... But not only
>> the BSD world, Linux also... there are efforts towards clang...
>>
>> Until then, even for C programs there are problems... Because I don't
>> know other way, I had to copy-symlink all libraries from X11R7 to /usr/lib,
>> not only six of them (thanks for the pointer)... I'm pretty sure there is a
>> right way to do it?  A manual or something (it wasn't this mess a few years
>> back...)
>>
>> For example for lockf () function, (if I remember correctly, because I am
>> now on the linux laptop) you get errors and if you look at the man manual,
>> things are like in linux, but it ends up that you really must change the
>> value of one parameter the way compiler suggest it... In the end, raylib
>> 4.0 compiles and runs ok but the timing is wrong because of
>> incompatibilities with the timer functions that are yet to be solved... A
>> nice graphical library that we have a pascal translation for. At least, in
>> OpenBSD didn't worked at all (mouse problems in glfw library)...  We really
>> need some pointers from the developers and the porting team... Typhoon
>> Relational Database needed also some interventions... Because, asking users
>> to do what we do is a no-no... But at least, things are working...
>>
>> Otherwise, NetBSD snappier for me than OpenBSD... Your pointers were
>> helpful. I had an X11 freeze trying mseide but I switched to the console
>> and killed the X... No system crash, and I activated the journaling for the
>> file system, just to be sure is recoverable... It works better than in
>> OpenBSD...
>>
>> So, it seems that NetBSD requires the most work from the three of them...
>> but I expect dflyBSD to be as easier as FreeBSD (if we make mouse and
>> keyboard to work on X)...
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 6:18 AM vasi vasi <funl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Excellent progress!
>> I also lost the night configuring NetBSD, setting the firewall,
>> installing apps... now is up and running, just to make those X11 symlinks.
>> Also having some difficulties in compiling a C library, but not mseide
>> related...
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 12, 2023 at 12:22 AM Fred van Stappen <fi...@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Allez, the very last for tonight.
>>
>> I found the guilty of the icons and images not show and the error message
>> of corrupt X11 atom.
>> It is the image property bmo_graymask.
>> And in all the mseide project all images or images list have
>> "bmo_graymask = true".
>> When setting bmo_graymask := false for all image and image-list the icon
>> and image are ok.
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/mse-org/mseide-msegui/assets/3421249/3452e988-1504-44df-a9e9-84ecdf65806a
>>
>> By the way, I never understood that property "bmo_graymask", setting it
>> to true or false dont change anything on other os.
>>
>> It is a excellent news because fighting with X11 is a other story.
>>
>> So, perfect, the icons and images problems are solved.
>> I will clean all the code, set bmo_graymask := false for eveybody and do
>> the commit tonight.
>>
>> Only remains the access to directory in file dialog that resists.
>> But not for longtime (but not for tonight).
>>
>> Fre;D
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *De :* Fred van Stappen <fi...@hotmail.com>
>> *Envoyé :* dimanche 11 juin 2023 21:06
>> *À :* General list for MSEide+MSEgui <
>> mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> *Objet :* Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New release?
>>
>> Ooops, in previous post, the screenshot was without the run, here the
>> good one.
>> In the terminal, no more cry of X11 for bad atom.
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/mse-org/mseide-msegui/assets/3421249/73bae81e-f28c-4790-b26c-5f408a9a2975
>>
>> Note too that file access via the file-dialog is not yet perfect, for
>> creating the project I have to write the full path + name, playing with the
>> directory-icons was not ok.
>>
>> So, to resume, still some work but it will be possible to terminate the
>> combat.
>>
>> Fre;D
>> ------------------------------
>> *De :* Fred van Stappen <fi...@hotmail.com>
>> *Envoyé :* dimanche 11 juin 2023 20:53
>> *À :* General list for MSEide+MSEgui <
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>> *Objet :* Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New release?
>>
>> OK, I created a new project directly in NetBSD using mseide-pre-alpha,
>> with a button and a image on his face.
>> Compiled and run.
>> And there the button has his ico-image:
>>
>> https://github.com/mse-org/mseide-msegui/assets/3421249/ec05ff42-2058-4c2f-9c39-746d9ac4d462
>> And no more cry when passing with mouse on the button about invalid atom.
>>
>> Hum, hum, hum.
>>
>> So could it be that the _mfm.pas gives problem and maybe oblige, for all
>> imported image, to re-do-it when compiling a project in NetBSD?
>>
>> Anyway I have to stop for the moment this exploration.
>> Yes, it is not a combat out-of-the-box, but sure we will win.
>>
>> Fre;D
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *De :* vasi vasi <funl...@gmail.com>
>> *Envoyé :* dimanche 11 juin 2023 19:53
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>> *Objet :* Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New release?
>>
>> Yeah, we are back to gtk and its connection to xlib...
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 8:44 PM Fred van Stappen <fi...@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Re-hello Vasi.
>>
>> OK, I found the option in xfce4 to show the icons in menu.
>>
>> But, sadly, the icons in mseide-menu are still not shown.
>> So it seems not to be related.
>>
>> Fre;D
>> ------------------------------
>> *De :* Fred van Stappen <fi...@hotmail.com>
>> *Envoyé :* dimanche 11 juin 2023 19:03
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>> *Objet :* Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New release?
>>
>> Hello Vasi.
>>
>> Indeed, there are no icons in xfce4 menus.
>> I think you get something there.
>>
>> I did try to have the icons shown but did not find a option for that.
>>
>> Maybe related with the not shown icons of mseide.
>>
>> If you try the last commit of mseide-msegui, you should compile the
>> mseide and run it.
>> There are 2 things that are not working (maybe more but I did not see).
>>
>>
>>    1. The icons are not shown for menu and in the debugger form.
>>    2. When you pass with the mouse on a menu with icons, there is a
>>    message in console from where you run mseide: "a X11 atom is not
>>    recognized".
>>
>>
>> Maybe both are related.
>>
>> Sadly I have to take a break in msegui exploration this week, loooot of
>> things to do.
>>
>> I hope you will have luck and that you will find the guilties.
>> When I am more free, I will jump back into it.
>>
>> For DragonFly, till now I did not find a solution to make the keyboard
>> work in a Xorg session and so did not try yet msegui on DragonFly.
>>
>> Good luck.
>>
>> Fre;D
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *De :* vasi vasi <funl...@gmail.com>
>> *Envoyé :* dimanche 11 juin 2023 15:13
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>> *Objet :* Re: [MSEide-MSEgui-talk] New release?
>>
>> Fred, your xfce4 shows icons in menus?
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 5:49 AM Fred van Stappen <fi...@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Re-hello Vasi.
>>
>> Ooops, sorry I did only read your first line, I did not see there was a
>> follow.
>>
>> About the reboots, I my case, for testing msegui, I needed lot of reboot!
>>
>> This because at beginning, nothing was working and when finally the
>> compilation was ok, running the ide crashed the system.
>> So boot needed but, because of the "su" bug (that I did not know), I
>> could not login after boot and must reinstall all the system.
>>  And retesting the mseide binary after some change (and using the "su"
>> with Xorg console) still crash, so reboot, without working login, -->
>> reinstall the os, retest, recrash, reinstall, retest, recrash, ... untill I
>> found the guitly: "su" in Xorg console.
>>
>> Now it is ok, if I have a crash, I can reboot without the need to
>> reinstall all because I use "su" in shell-terminal of the system.
>>
>> Fre;D
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *De :* vasi vasi <funl...@gmail.com>
>> *Envoyé :* dimanche 11 juin 2023 01:22
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>>
>> Actually, won't help to create a user as part of wheel group, having
>> admin rights and using just sudo or doas? Can'r wait to install it... Last
>> time, I did not had such problems... but it was a different computer...
>>
>> Thanks for the movie, Fred.
>>
>> On Sun, Jun 11, 2023 at 1:13 AM Sieghard via mseide-msegui-talk <
>> mseide-msegui-talk@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Fred,
>>
>> you wrote on Sat, 10 Jun 2023 17:37:44 +0000:
>>
>> > Note that with NetBSD using the "su" command in a Xorg terminal will
>> > destroy the pam config (for login+password). And you will not be able to
>> > login anymore (and must reinstall all the system).
>>
>> Ihat's a really _very_ bad thing...
>>
>> > So for all the things you need a root access, terminate the Xorg session
>> > to come back to terminal-no-gui, login as normal user, then use the "su"
>> > command to do the things that need root access.
>>
>> Does NetBSD's Xorg NOT have the LeftAlt-Ctrl-F<n> hot key function to
>> switch to a text mode console? Or is that just disabled by default, as
>> many Linux Xorg/Gooey^WGUI installations do it by now, somewhere setting
>> a "ServerFlags" section 'Option     "DontVTSwitch"        "true"'?
>>
>> (There's a program, "chvt", that can do the switch too, but that requires
>> root rights to be used, so it's useless here.)
>>
>> Creating a "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" file with just the contents
>> "Section "ServerFlags"
>>         Option      "DontVTSwitch"        "true"
>>  EndSection"
>> _might_ suffice, but it may neccessary to also include a line like
>> '       Option      "ServerLayout" "X.org Configured"'
>> for Xorg to accept it.
>>
>> Be sure to scan Xorg's log file (Xorg.0.log) whether it had the intended
>> effect or just rose a warning or an error. Read the Xorg man page!
>>
>> > Or do this after boot, before to run "startx" command.
>>
>> You do not want to (re)boot a Unix for maintenance purposes only! Do you?
>>
>> (Ooops, THAT was looong-winded thread!)
>>
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