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Richard, you might also look into mplayer's slave mode. It can work very nicely with a helper app to handle the commandline startup and options. It could be a pretty deep rabbit hole as far as possible features and robustness but you might find it worth the adventure. I played with this some years a...

Hi, lemondizon, there are many reasons why you might choose one disro over another and why you might select a particular desktop environment. There is certainly no shortage of advice on the internet, but it's not always easy to know if what you're reading is honest advice or distro evangelism and di...

Keep in mind that using the 'shell()' function to launch an application is blocking unless you take special precautions to overcome that. It's not difficult but you have to be aware of the problem and know a solution :) . There are several threads here (search "shell non-blocking") which discuss tha...

'launch document' also works here in Arch Linux. 'get shell' is not going to work. Try typing the path to any non executable document in a terminal and see what happens. That's what you're doing when you use 'get shell("/some/path/to/non-executable")'

This is an issue with the LiveCode IDE that surfaced early in version 9 and became a problem in version 8.1.10 (backported "improvements'?) after having not been a problem in earlier versions. I think it's incorrect to suggest that Plasma is responsible. There are issues involving the tools palette ...

I don't know what a "working plan" is in terms of UI elements, but if you're seeing the LC Menu/Toolbar submarine beneath other windows maybe just set the style of revMenubar to palette? From his first post he seems to be talking about the habit of the tools palette to disappear in Plasma and the t...

Many RSS readers have an auto-discover feature which will find the feed link for websites which have a feed but don't make it easy to find and subscribe to. In this age of "social" media and nonsense, people running blogs are being discouraged from publishing a feed link because it reduces "connecti...

the link is: http://forums.livecode.com/feed.php

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I use XFCE with LiveCode, and have done since LC 2.2 with no problems whatsoever. Not to gang up on you, Richmond... It might be helpful to curious readers for you to specify you're having good fortune using Xubuntu. If you've switched distros then let us know what's working for you now, please! I ...

My experience testing LiveCode in various distros and desktop environments is that the IDE functions similarly in Plasma in all the tested distros. It's a little inconvenient but nothing showstopping. Some other desktop environments are much more variable. It's been a while since I spent time testin...

I see you're using Plasma. This is a problem in Plasma. Sometimes it's related to whether or not the message box or property inspector is open. You may notice the property inspector plays hide and seek, too, sometimes. Typically, clicking on the main menu bar or a working stack brings the tools pale...

Sorry, Richard, I don't have any helpful advice. The IDE itself behaves differently in Arch depending on which DE you run but I haven't really looked into this specifically regarding the browser widget. I might now, just for fun, but even then I could only report my experience. I don't have any of t...

On Arch Linux / Plasma the browser widget functions and shows it does support WebGL2, according to the test page.

You should not expect 32bit apps to open in a 64bit distro I don't know why not. That was my shorthand way of saying you can't hold the expectation that it will "just work" in any and every installation. Distros vary in how easy they make 32 bit compatibility, and many distros have heavy and light ...

I'm pretty sure the problem is your ARM CPU is not supported. I believe Livecode requires an Intel/AMD CPU.