Preferences not showing as expected

[Phlogs]

Describe the bug When I open the Preferences menu, it appears as shown in the screenshot below. I really need to access MIDI control to the GO button, quite basic but for now I can only trigger single cues separately editing one by one. Any help really welcome, and thank you for all the wonderful job done on LiSP, looking forward for new releases!

To Reproduce

1. Go to 'File>Preferences'
2. Not finding "Layout Controls" nor "Plugins" as shown in Docs (everything looks different, actually)

Screenshots

Linux Show Player version:

• 0.5.3

OS Version

• Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS

[s0600204]

Hi @Phlogs,

The documentation describes LiSP version 0.6 - you're running 0.5.3, which doesn't have this feature. To get the ability to configure MIDI control globally, rather than cue-by-cue, you would have to update.

Currently, the only way to get 0.6 is to either install it from a FlatPak or install it manually. Instructions for both approaches may be found in the documentation.

Note that 0.6 cannot read the show-files created by 0.5.x, so if you do upgrade you would have to recreate any show-file.

[Phlogs]

Thank you for the quick reply! I'm having some troubles installing in both ways described.

For the flatpak way, when I type: ~$ sudo flatpak install LinuxShowPlayer-master-x86_64.flatpak I get: error: The application org.linux_show_player.LinuxShowPlayer/x86_64/master requires the runtime org.kde.Platform/x86_64/5.15-23.08 which was not found

I tried manually too, checked all the packages in the list (some I had to find the closer one, not sure I managed in all cases), and when I run: ~/linux-show-player-ci-master$ poetry install I got: Creating virtualenv linux-show-player-7-04OIuy-py3.10 in /home/av/.cache/pypoetry/virtualenvs Installing dependencies from lock file

Package operations: 24 installs, 0 updates, 0 removals

• Installing pycparser (2.21) • Installing certifi (2023.11.17) • Installing cffi (1.16.0) • Installing charset-normalizer (3.3.2) • Installing cython (0.29.36) • Installing idna (3.4) • Installing packaging (23.2) • Installing pycairo (1.25.1): Failed

ChefBuildError

Backend subprocess exited when trying to invoke build_wheel

running bdist_wheel running build running build_py creating build creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-310 creating build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-310/cairo copying cairo/__init__.py -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-310/cairo copying cairo/__init__.pyi -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-310/cairo copying cairo/py.typed -> build/lib.linux-x86_64-cpython-310/cairo running build_ext Package cairo was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing 'cairo.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'cairo' found Command '['pkg-config', '--print-errors', '--exists', 'cairo >= 1.15.10']' returned non-zero exit status 1.

at ~/.local/share/pipx/venvs/poetry/lib/python3.10/site-packages/poetry/installation/chef.py:164 in _prepare 160│ 161│ error = ChefBuildError("\n\n".join(message_parts)) 162│ 163│ if error is not None: → 164│ raise error from None 165│ 166│ return path 167│ 168│ def _prepare_sdist(self, archive: Path, destination: Path | None = None) -> Path:

Note: This error originates from the build backend, and is likely not a problem with poetry but with pycairo (1.25.1) not supporting PEP 517 builds. You can verify this by running 'pip wheel --no-cache-dir --use-pep517 "pycairo (==1.25.1)"'.

• Installing pyqt5-qt5 (5.15.2) • Installing pyqt5-sip (12.13.0) • Installing urllib3 (2.1.0)

Then I tried anyway: ~/linux-show-player-ci-master$ poetry run linux-show-player I got: Warning: 'linux-show-player' is an entry point defined in pyproject.toml, but it's not installed as a script. You may get improper 'sys.argv[0]'.

The support to run uninstalled scripts will be removed in a future release.

Run 'poetry install' to resolve and get rid of this message.

Traceback (most recent call last): File "<string>", line 1, in <module> File "/usr/lib/python3.10/importlib/__init__.py", line 126, in import_module return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level) File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1050, in _gcd_import File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1027, in _find_and_load File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 992, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1050, in _gcd_import File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1027, in _find_and_load File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 1006, in _find_and_load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 688, in _load_unlocked File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 883, in exec_module File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 241, in _call_with_frames_removed File "/home/av/linux-show-player-ci-master/lisp/__init__.py", line 20, in <module> from appdirs import AppDirs ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'appdirs'

[s0600204]

checked all the packages in the list (some I had to find the closer one, not sure I managed in all cases)

A more distro-specific list may be found in this discussion concerning the manual installation instructions.

Package cairo was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing 'cairo.pc'

The file it's looking for is contained within the libcairo2-dev package. I would expect this to have been pulled in by another dependency, but if it isn't then I guess we'll need to add it to the list of prerequisites.

[Phlogs]

I managed! Thank you so much! I had to install the libgirepository1.0-dev package too, because gobject-introspection-1.0.pc was missing.

Just one last obstacle on my way : I've got a 4k display on my laptop, and I found that for the version 5.3.0 I could scale correctly the application launching with this command: QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1 linux-show-player

With poetry it does not work, obviously...any idea? It looks a bit strange, have to resize every time the windows to read something.

[FrancescoCeruti]

error: The application org.linux_show_player.LinuxShowPlayer/x86_64/master requires the runtime org.kde.Platform/x86_64/5.15-23.08 which was not found

You can run the following before installing LiSP:

flatpak install org.kde.Platform/x86_64/5.15-23.08

With poetry it does not work

It should work, but from Qt 5.14 you should use QT_ENABLE_HIGHDPI_SCALING=1 poetry run linux-show-player, according to the ArchWiki

[Phlogs]

It should work, but from Qt 5.14 you should use QT_ENABLE_HIGHDPI_SCALING=1 poetry run linux-show-player, according to the ArchWiki

Hello Francesco! It works! Thank you so much for helping me, looking forward to using this new version.

Maybe it will be useful for others or for you to find a solution, even after installing the org.kde.Platform/x86_64/5.15-23.08 flatpak didn't solved the issue...but with poetry works for me, so as far as I'm concerned problem solved! Thank you again :D