Thank you, LoneVVolf: It is not clear to me how to obtain the PKGBUILD for Tuxguitar, since it is distributed through pacman. I tried to include an Archaudio repo, hoping that another version would be available via AUR. Alas! No such luck. Alan On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 1:24 PM, LoneVVolf <lonewolf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 19-07-15 20:06, Alan E. Davis wrote: > >> Tux guitar works well, so far; however, when trying to access >> Documentation >> through "Help>Documentation" Tuxguitar hangs. I've spent some hours >> researching this problem, and have gotten nowhere. Every google search I >> make leads one to mention of SWT, and apparently the most up to date 4.2 >> version, and some issue regarding gtk. >> >> <snip> >> Also interesting, in the "About" screen, is the following information: >> >> This product include third party libraries: >> -> SWT (Standard Widget Toolkit): http://www.eclipse.org/swt/ >> -> iText (Free Java-PDF library): http://www.lowagie.com/iText/ >> >> The documentation is pretty good, in general, on the Archlinux Wiki. I >> could not find much useful information regarding this problem with >> Tuxguitar with respect to Archlinux, even there. >> >> Can someone shed some light, or, better still, suggest a way to solve this >> problem. I suppose I can try to get a PDF of the docs, and use that. >> >> Alan Davis >> >> >> > |The PKGBUILD has this line twice : export > CLASSPATH=/usr/share/java/swt.jar:$CLASSPATH That makes tuxguitar use the > archlinux SWT version. The problems likely come from arch SWT being newer > then wat tuxguitar expects. Try building the package yourself with those > lines commented. Note that you need to make sure the tuxguitar provided > swt.jar is included in the package. | > > -- “That is the way to learn the most, that when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don’t notice that the time passes.” --- Albert Einstein
