[Lazarus] blank window

Henry Vermaak henry.vermaak at gmail.com
Thu Jan 26 18:39:01 CET 2012


On 26/01/12 15:51, Henry Vermaak wrote:
> Hi list
>
> After I upgraded my netbook to ubuntu precise, I only get an empty
> window when I start up lazarus (or my app, which uses the lcl). When I
> run lazarus directly, it shows a grey box where the splash should be,
> then just hangs. If I use --nsc, it goes into a blank window with the
> title "Welcome to Lazarus IDE 0.9.31". Interestingly, when I run
> startlazarus, it displays the splash screen OK, but then just continues
> to the blank window.
>
> I've tried to rule out a couple of things. I'm using openbox as a wm
> with lxde, but the program behaves the same if I run it directly via
> startx. I've used previous revisions of lazarus that I've known to work,
> fpc 2.6.0 or 2.7.1, but still the same results.
>
> Could anyone offer suggestions of how I can try to debug this? Perhaps
> there are gtk debug flags that I can enable?

Further to this, the freepascal gtk2 examples appear to work correctly 
(at least the ones that build).

Henry




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