- From: "Adrian S." <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] Some notes on installing TeXmacs 1.0.20 on Ubuntu 13.10,
- Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2013 18:13:18 -0600
I just found a workaround to have the maxima menu correctly appear and
disable the indicator-appmenu just for texmacs with qt
QT_X11_NO_NATIVE_MENUBAR=1 texmacs
makes it so the menu appears in the the window, and correctly displays it.
Hope this helps someone. This is great for me, since I liked the qt
version more. Also, the new pdf-renderer does have transparency in the
pdf exported in the qt version.
Peace.
-Adrián.
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Adrian S. <address@hidden> wrote:
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I just wanted to share my experiences compiling TeXmacs in Ubuntu 13.10.
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For installation in Ubuntu 13.10, I was not sure what to install, so I
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followed the dependencies in the package texmacs-src (which is for
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1.0.18), which are:
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autotools-dev
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cdbs (>= 0.4)
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debhelper (>= 7.0)
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ghostscript
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guile-1.8-dev
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imagemagick
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ispell
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libfreetype6-dev
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libimlib2-dev
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libjpeg-progs
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libltdl-dev
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libqt4-dev
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librsvg2-bin
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libtiff-tools
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libx11-dev
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libxt-dev
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netpbm
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quilt
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r-base-core (>= 2.0)
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x11proto-core-dev
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xfig
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From these, I think r-base-core and xfig are not really needed. The
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packages listed ones allow it to compile, however:
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The configure script found guile2, and tried to compile against it.
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Aparently TeXmacs does not work with guile2, and needs guile1.8...
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After putting guile1.8 and guile1.8-dev, all compiled nicely.
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Then the newer version of ubuntu uses Maxima 5.30, which is
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incompatible with TeXmacs. Previous versions of Maxima work just
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fine.
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A long time ago, I had asked a problem regarding the menu created when
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one starts a Maxima session. What is supposed to happen is that when
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one starts a Maxima session, one should see a new entry en the top
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menu saying "Maxima" and inside of which there are several options
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about operations that can be performed inside the session. Compiling
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the X version of texmacs (with the --disable-qt option) works just
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fine. However, the compiled Qt version of texmacs does not create the
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new menu. At first I thought that this was TeXmacs fault, but then I
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notice that the binary qt version in Windows does create the menu.
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After a bit of digging, I realized that this is a Unity problem in
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Ubuntu. The problem is solved by removing the package
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"indicator-appmenu" in Ubuntu.
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This removes the Apple-like "global menu", which is common for all
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applications. This method is probably not the best way to do it,
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because if affects all applications; but is the only workaround that I
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have found (Other tricks like using "UBUNTU_MENUPROXY=0 texmacs", or
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using "APPMENU_DISPLAY_BOTH=1 texmacs" did not work)
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The package sage still uses a modified version of the Python plugin
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that has several problems, but is now able to plot graphics, which was
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missing for a while.
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The new version of sage also shows some annoying symbols due to using
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unicode , but it is a somewhat minor, though annoying, problem. I will
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take a look to see if there is an easy fix to at least that. I
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suggested a version of the sage plugin, but was not included.
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I must say that the SVN version is impressive, and the improvements
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done for the beamer style, and for the exportation of documents with
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the beamer style to PDF are extraordinary.
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I am very happy with TeXmacs. I appreciate all the terrific work that
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is being done.
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I wonder if there is some work in the Mathemagix plugin, to see a bit
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what we should aim to regarding writing plugins.
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Hope this notes are useful to someone else.
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Peace.
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-Adrián.
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