[Lazarus] IDE problems

[Mattias Gaertner]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 22:17:05 -0300
Junior <lazarus.linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> Fixing the link:
> 
> http://www.meadows.pair.com/Screenshot%20-%2011252013%20-%2006:57:09%20PM.png
> 
> Em 25-11-2013 21:49, brian escreveu:
> > On 11/25/2013 06:45 PM, Mattias Gaertner wrote:
> >> On Mon, 25 Nov 2013 18:26:48 -0500
> >> brian <brian at meadows.pair.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi folks,
> >>>
> >>> Something has spontaneously gone wrong with the IDE on my setup. I say
> >>> spontaneously because I was in the middle of debugging a program when
> >>> suddenly everything but the source window disappeared. I eventually
> >>> had to abort Lazarus and re-start the program, but now I see some very
> >>> strange behaviour :-
> >>>
> >>> 1) Pull-down menus stay pulled down, even when I've selected an entry.
> >>
> >> What Lazarus version do you use?
> >>
> >>
> >>> 2) Only the object inspector or the source editor can be visible at
> >>> any one time - select one, and the other vanishes.
> >>>
> >>> There are probably a few other quirks too, but those are the most
> >>> annoying two.
> >>>
> >>> In my Delphi days, there used to be a desktop configuration file which
> >>> you deleted if the IDE got all screwed up, and then when you ran the
> >>> program again you were back to all the defaults.
> >>>
> >>> Is there such a file for Lazarus? I assume this isn't a
> >>> version-specific question, but anyway, I'm running Lazarus under
> >>> 64-bit Debian multi-home, and the version is the latest as downloaded
> >>> by fpcup_linux_x64 two days ago, SVN revision 43478.
> >>
> >> The config files are under Linux in $HOME/.lazarus.
> >>
> >
> > Thanks, Mattias. I tried renaming .lazarus and then ran lazarus up 
> > again, but no change in the behaviour. Let me show you the sort of 
> > thing I see, screenshot attached. Any time I click a pulldown menu, 
> > the source window disappears, and as you will see, the pulldown menus 
> > stay there.
> >
> > P.S. Didn't know about the 100 KB size triggering a moderator review. 
> > OK, the .png is here.
> >
> >> http://www.meadows.pair.com/Screenshot - 11252013 - 06:57:09 PM.png

I have never seen such a bug with the LCL.
Does that happen only with Lazarus?
What window manager do you use?
Is that the LCL QT widgetset?

Mattias