Subj : Audacity (was GIMP Up)
To   : Mike Powell
From : Barry Martin
Date : Mon Sep 08 2025 07:12:00


Hi Mike!

 >  MP> The issues I was having with Audacity appear to be related to
 >  MP> LXQt, but only on my laptop.  If I use gnome flashback instead,
 >  MP> the glitch (the key stroke shortcuts quit working in the middle
 >  MP> of a project) goes away.
 >  MP> With LXQt/IceWM on my other machine, it also seems to work fine.
 > That's a good discovery!  I'm wondering if the problem with the key
 > shortcuts is possibly due to a small cache?  Cache gets filled with the
 > project (before being written to the hard drive) and so FIFO kicks in
 > and you loose the shortcut information.
 MP> Not sure that'd be the case here.  We are talking about clips
 MP> that are maybe 8-10 seconds long where I would only be cutting
 MP> out some "dead air" and applying an amplify and a noise reduction
 MP> effect.  Once I apply one effect, regardless of which one, the
 MP> keyboard shortcuts (like cut, paste, spacebar to play, etc.) stop
 MP> working.  CTRL-Q to quit keeps working, though.

I'd agree: short clips/files like that shouldn't fill a cache and dump 
FIFO.  I could see something like "after editing five or six short clips
I loose my shortcuts".

Hey, here's something I remembered from when you typed "once I apply one
effect, regardless of which one".  Years ago I had a communications 
utilty and every time I did a specific option (forgot which one) the 
utilty froze.  Didn't need the option  all the time.

Re-install the utility, all was fine - until next time.  Eventually
found the problem was a specific file was being altered so just 
re-install that one file (umm, this was from floppy!).  Eventually 
renamed the file on the hard drive to 'hold the place', re-installed the
one file (so to a different spot on the hard drive because the original
file was holding its original position), and all was fine, never needed 
to re-install.  

OK, so finding that being-altered file might be a near-impossibility 
now, so maybe rename the original utility to hold all the spots and 
re-install?  (Reboot to have the system update the paths, the 
re-install.)  

utility and 


 MP> In past I have had no issue working with such clips, or working
 MP> with ones closer to two minutes long.  Only started with the
 MP> upgrade to 13 and the new version of audacity that came with it.

 MP> I suspect it is some odd thing missing, or set funny, that is
 MP> causing some incompatability betweeen audacity and lxqt.  It is
 MP> not worth troubleshooting as it works fine with gnome-flashback,
 MP> and I am fine using either on that machine.

 MP> Mike

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