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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

https://github.com/tildearrow/furnace/issues/570 wrote:

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:

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?

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?

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

Noticed your user name

I made some electronic music using the name WormGear

@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.)

/usr/bin/zenity --ldd

Mike.

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.

BarryK wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 2:36 am

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:

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

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

Success the script replacement worked.

Thank you.

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