Downloaded Furnace Tracker starts but can't open or save files (Solved)

[vormgear]

I download and was able to run furnace tracker version 0.6
But i cant save or open files. When i try i get a dialogue window with the option buttons for OK or cancel but no way to select a folder location. I've run this version of furnace tracker on a arch and and Debian based system before without a problem.

Im running easyOS kirkstone 5.4.9 off a USB drive.

[kamemo]

I've never used this app, but I downloaded furnace-0.6pre7-linux.tar.gz from https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace/releases.
I hope, this is the right app.
After extracting, the app started normally. Then I tried to open or save a file and got the same error as you.

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That is the first time, I see this bug. With other apps I got no problems so far. I am also using EasyOS 5.4.9.
This is a pre-release version in beta state. Perhaps it is a bug in the app.

[vormgear]

I don't think its just furnace I got the same problem with vcv rack. I also tried some other programs to see if i could duplicate the weird save dialogue. Krita, Audacity and My paint all seemed to work correctly by displaying the correct file dialogue for saving files.

[MochiMoppel]

What you see is a yad dialog, but that's not what Furnace expects:

Zenity/KDialog must be installed on Linux for the system file picker to work.

I can confirm that both Furnace-0.6pre1.AppImage and furnace-0.6pre7-linux.tar.gz run fine in Bookworm64, but the file picker does not work. Puppies, and I guess that EasyOS is no exception, have yad installed, often with zenity symlinked to yad. I've never seen an original zenity. AFAIK yad is a fork of zenity and *should* be compatible. Obviously it is not.

If you are really keen to go to the bottom, here is how zenity/yad is called from Furnace:

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zenity --file-selection --filename=/root/ --title Open File --separator= --file-filter compatible files|*.fur *.dmf *.mod *.fc13 *.fc14 *.smod *.fc --file-filter all files|* --confirm-overwrite

Yad doesn't understand --file-selection. For yad it should be --file. Some of the following options are also not understood by yad. Your best bet is to obtain an original zenity. Maybe copying it from the "Debian based system" would work?

[vormgear]

Thank you for the help. To get zeneity set up would i just need to grab the Debian package and install it on easyos or would the solution require something more involved?

[rockedge]

I think you can grab the dependencies and it should work.

Noticed your user name

I made some electronic music using the name WormGear

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[mikewalsh]

@vormgear :-

Try this. It's the Zenity .deb package for Debian 11. I've had to add a 'fake' .gz to the end for the forum to allow upload, so just remove it before use.....that will return it to a standard .deb package. Attached below.

(It's now a shared library, rather than a binary like the older ones, but that shouldn't prevent it from functioning. You may need to run 'ldd' on the 'zenity' library to see if there's any missing dependencies.)

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/usr/bin/zenity --ldd

Mike.

[BarryK]

The yad project has a zenity-compatibility script:

https://github.com/v1cont/yad/blob/mast ... /zenity.sh

Maybe we could improve that a bit, have /usr/bin/zenity as a script rather than a symlink to yad.

[MochiMoppel]

Maybe we could improve that a bit, have /usr/bin/zenity as a script rather than a symlink to yad.

This function just adds icons to the dialog but what we need is change the syntax. I tried to modify the function but it didn't work. Some arguments have spaces in them and proper quoting gets lost during the process. But using zenity as a wrapper script rather than a symlink is definitely the way to go...

@vormgear I think I have found a very easy solution. Please replace the symlink /usr/bin/zenity with following script /usr/bin/zenity:

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#!/bin/bash
exec yad "${@/--file-selection/--file}"

Fixes the file picker but otherwise works just like the symlink.

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[vormgear]

Success the script replacement worked.

Thank you.

[BarryK]

@MochiMoppel
Thanks for that script, I have put it into EasyOS, instead of the symlink.