Currently i have to work from windows because of frequent crashes, menus disappearing and the material editor. I’m obviously not complaining, I am very grateful for the awesome SDK even if I can only use it on windows. Just wondering when I’ll (if) I will be able to go back to linux. Thanks.
On Xubuntu 12.04 Kernel 3.5 the SDK (stable and nightly) is running without any Problems. I head all the time no problems with crashes or disappearing of menus.
Maybe there is a problem with your version of Java sdk or graphic driver?
Na, it’s mostly linux issues, and only indirectly related to drivers etc. Cf. http://hub.jmonkeyengine.org/groups/jmonkeyplatform/forum/topic/sdk-platform-base-7-2-please-test-1/?topic_page=3&num=15#post-185266
The issues were changing from linux release to linux release so I guess the proper question is “when does linux support java and opengl properly”.
I too have intermittent crashes, they are hard to get a handle on (usually when dialogs are requesting stuff like Skybox wizard and so on) and often I just restart the SDK and get on with what I was doing.
Is there (or easy to make) some kind of crash report that could be enabled? Something to help us linux folks remember to collect some data and find workarounds for the common issues? Maybe the SDK can detect an unclean shutdown and pop up a JTextPane showing the log.
Is the crash reported anywhere? Because if it just crashes to desktop then how are we supposed to know what’s caused it?
@Momoko_Fan said:
Is the crash reported anywhere? Because if it just crashes to desktop then how are we supposed to know what's caused it?
Shouldn't they have logs for that?
Anyway, I'm on Ubuntu 11.10 and everything seems to be working just fine for me. But I only started using it recently so..
I have had no problems with Ubuntu 12.04 gnome 3.
The IDE has some window sizing and refresh issues under Xfce. I am sure you can do some searching for netbeans gtk errors and someone would have a simple fix for the problem.
I have had issues in the past with eclipse and xfce and there is usually an env. var that can be set to fix the window problems.
I’ve only one issue with Ubuntu 12.04. I have dual monitors and when I launch a jme3 window, it appears on my second monitor. This doesn’t happen for a JFrame such as the initial screen, but the second screen which is the application chosen that is launchen from the splash screen appears on my second screen (my television) but there are no crashes or so, it works in fact surprisingly well.
I use the libs from eclipse btw. I couldn’t get the sdk to load the views of the models / scenes neither on wodows nor Linux, so I’m just using it from eclipse instead trying to learn by changing the examples.
@Momoko_Fan said:
Is the crash reported anywhere? Because if it just crashes to desktop then how are we supposed to know what's caused it?
I was thinking that the IDE log (same as view->IDE log) could be shown at start-up if the IDE wasn't shutdown cleanly. It might have some indication to what in the IDE triggered the crash (even if the crash is most likely something in AWT/GTK, wouldn't be the first time), but maybe that would be more annoying than helpful.