TIC-80
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ui not appearing in Lubuntu (BadWindow)
I'm on Lubuntu 20.04 LTE.
I started tic80 a couple of times successfully.
Then i toggled window un/decorate (a generic menu item on any window in lubuntu). Then i tried "tic80 --fullscreen"
Since then i'm no longer able to run tic80 at all.
In this log ~/.config/lxqt/debug.log i see lines like this appearing whenever i try to run tic80
2022-08-13 03:19:39.691 (0x7ffe0936a5d0) Warning: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 22508, resource id: 41943054, major code: 3 (GetWindowAttributes), minor code: 0 2022-08-13 03:19:39.691 (0x7ffe0936a5d0) Warning: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 22509, resource id: 41943054, major code: 2 (ChangeWindowAttributes), minor code: 0
I do see a window flashing and then disappearing again.
On the shell where i started tic80, i get this
TIC-80 tiny computer version 1.0.2164 (b09c50c) https://tic80.com (C) 2017-2022
hello! type help for help
which looks like a prompt but whatever i type there nothing happens.
I uninstalled and reinstalled tic80 to no avail.
It looks like lxqt remembers something invalid about this programs window. Not sure what or how. I even copied /usr/bin/tic80 into a different filename in a different place to no avail: same effect, same lxqt logging.
I'm having the same problem, but after running a second instance of tic80.
I found a way to make it work again:
mkdir /tmp/tic_80
tic80 --fs=/tmp/tic_80/
So it seems the default file system folder was corrupted.
Digging deeper: erasing ~/.local/share/com.nesbox.tic/TIC-80/.local/ solved it and allowed me to recover my working files.
(Be careful because it may be confusing depending on how accustomed you are with Linux: I just deleted the last .local folder; the inner one)
Thanks, that solves the problem.
So narrowed down: in lubuntu, using 1.0.2164 (b09c50c): when i start with --fullscreen it's broken (ui is not appearing). Then no matter how i restart it stays broken. Only after clearing ~/.local/share/com.nesbox.tic/.local i get it working again.
