Pharo image does not recognize middle mouse click on Debian - pharo

Related to this question, which was never really answered...
I'm running Debian Testing on a Lenovo Thinkpad T530.
I downloaded Pharo using the zeroconf script. About says
Pharo3.0
Latest update: #30860
I noticed that middle click didn't bring up the morphic halo as I expected, based on the description in Pharo by Example, nor did it do anything as far as I could tell.
I ran the Pharo VM with a Squeak image (as suggested by this answer), and middle mouse did exactly what I would have expected.
I couldn't find any more information about this, so I'm asking here.
Is there a way to enable the middle mouse? Is this a bug?

Try shift + middle click.
(I'm using Debian Testing on T520)

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The Godot Engine Editor's IDE/GUI seems to be slow and to ignore mouse interaction

I'm using Godot_v3.2.1-stable_win64.exe(current Godot version) on my Windows 10. When running a project everything seems to work fine but when using the actual IDE of the Godot engine it seems like the IDE screen doesn't update fluidly on every mouse interaction but like only every 5 seconds instead (as like FPS would be low).
So mostly on hovering or clicking something it would light up or be triggered after you clicked on some other thing elsewhere (which is stupid of course).
This makes it even impossible to hit a button sometimes in the IDE.
E.g. when renaming a file a Window/Box for renaming pops up but you do not see it, because the IDE screen isn't updated. So if you don't blindly click on the box (which you don't see) the option for renaming is lost, because the box closes when clicking anywhere else. See what I mean?
Thank you for listening. Have a great day.
This is a known issue. Try updating your graphics driver to the latest version provided by Intel (not your OEM).

Mouse right-click inoperative in Pharo 2.0 and 3.0 under Windows XP and 7

I installed Pharo 3.0 on my ASUS Windows 7 laptop and settled in to run through the ProfStef tutorial. But I could not get past the first panel - I could not 'doit'.
I installed Pharo 2.0 on the laptop. Same story. I turned on the touchpad. Nope. I installed Pharo 2.0 and 3.0 on a Windows 7 desktop. No, the mouse right button is not recognized there.
I installed Pharo 2.0 on a Gateway Windows XP and the right-mouse button did not work there either.
Finally, knowing that Pharo is a fork of Squeak, I installed Squeak 4.3 on the original laptop. The right-click is recognized by that package.
Does right-click means something in Pharo other than what I am expecting?
This appears to be a known issue.
Reference here on the Pharo Open Issues area.
I didn't create a user to dig deeper at the link provided there, but you can check it out.
My guess is that, since it's pretty darn important, it will be resolved soon.
This is very likely a VM problem. The latest update on this issue is from February 14 2013, work still in progress.
Pharo and Squeak use different VMs, which explains the different behaviours you're seeing.
To evaluate an expression (i.e. "doit") you don't need the right click. You can simply use ctrl + d (or alt + d, I'm on Mac, so I don't know which one's the command button). So simply select the code you want to evaluate and "doit" and you're good.
If you want feedback, you can also "print it" (ctrl + p), "inspect it" (ctrl + i) or "explore it" (ctrl + shift + i).
I have raised the priority of that issue (case 7545 on FogBugz) so we have a look at it before releasing Pharo3
No, it is not. That's not related: it has something to do with the following of implementors when pressing over a class or a selector. And btw, that issue tracker is not active anymore (that issue is old, more than a year). We should close it, but we let it there for documentation issues. For now, we are using https://pharo.fogbugz.com.
Anyway... about your problem: I couldn't reproduce it. How are you installing your pharo distributions?
I tried two ways:
http://get.pharo.org
(it works in windows if you have a decent shell installed)
and the pharo launcher:
https://ci.inria.fr/pharo-contribution/job/PharoLauncher-Win-Package/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/pharo-ci/pharo_installer.exe
Both are "the recommended" ways of installing, even if they are not properly publicised in the pharo web site (something that we should change during the course of the day :) )

[mono]Arabic text rendering in linux / monodevelop 2.6

I've been instructed to port a .NET/C# Windows application to linux (XUbuntu 11.10 or SliTaz 4). This application should be capable of rendering Arabic texts in part or all of its texts.
I managed to modify the Windows application so that it properly shows Arabic texts. I had to switch UseCompatibilityText to true.
When in linux, I tried to look for the same property. No luck. Is it a question of being using an old version of Mono? Is it something not yet supported?
Is there any way around this issue?
Thanks a lot in advance!
Antonio
Ok, I'm new to MonoDevelop, but I saw your posting, and I have to say that when I tried to use Arabic in an "entry" box as a quick test, I had no trouble. This MD is straight out of the box, I didn't have to do anything other than coding and grab a small piece of Arabic text. I am using MD 2.8.8.6 on my mac.
Oops, let me check the same on my Linux box. I am using Kubuntu 12.04, and MD 2.8.6.3, and the same test above works. I'm not sure what exactly isn't working on yours, maybe my test is not extensive enough, or maybe you want to upgrade your version?
Cheers

In jVI for Netbeans, the cursor won't appear

Depending on the font I use, I might see a quarter of a cursor (lower right rectangle not flashing) in the wrong place, or no cursor at all. Still, the line I'm on highlights and the column number is displayed in the lower right.
I've tried a mix of fixed-width fonts at a mix of sizes (11-14), including the default Monospace, MacVim's Menlo, the awful Courier, and another q-a site's suggested Consolas.
Any ideas how to get the cursor to show up would be great. Alternate ways to get Vi keybindings in NetBeans also acceptable, though it seems jVi is the most current / active effort.
NetBeans 7.1.2
EDIT:
Image showing no cursor with highlighting
Image showing actually two partial cursors, which I'd never seen before:
There is a problem with the Mac Retina, which is like this problem. The latest jVi release has a workaround, you need to turn on the option
Tools > Options > jViConfig > Platform > MacRetinaCursorXorBug
I had the same problem in Netbeans 8.0.2. Workaround for this is to disable following option:
Tools->Options->jVi config->platform->use modal frame
I found the solution here which solves other problems with cursor too. I hope this will help you.
Cheers
ubuntu - 14.04
java 1.7.0_121
netbeans - 8.2
jvi - 1.5.4
i had the same issue and 'use model frame' was already enabled. Enabling 'MacRetinaCursorXorBug' fixed the issue. i have set the frequency of the cursor to 500 to be on the safer side.
Enabling the option MacRetinaCursorXorBug under Tools > Options > jViConfig > Platform was the only working solution for me among a bunch of other suggested workarounds. So it's important to mention that this setting could be required even on non Mac Systems.
(Tested on environment: Netbeans IDE 8.0.2, Ubuntu 15.04 with Kernel 3.19.0-16, XFCE-Desktop 4.12, VirtualBox 4.3.28)
Setting the blink rate to 500 as suggested by develucas fixed this for me on Ubuntu and Netbeans 8.1, though it still disappears whilst moving it reappears shortly after it becomes stationary, makes jvi useable again.

X11 with window decorations on ubuntu mini distro

Goal: To display an application in the middle of the screen on a solid colour background. This means nothing else showing no gnome-desktop nothing apart from the application and the solid colour background.
Currently I'm using X11 for the background xstart -solid Grey which is great however as a test application I'm running firefox which I see has no window decorations ie: max, min title or boarder neither for that matter does xterm. I was wondering if it is possible to show the decorations without installing gnome possibly by installing just the themes eg: gnome-themes which I have done but have been unable to make the connection, or weather just running X isn't going to work without more gnome modules. I'm new to delving into the inner workings of linux as I've never had to deal with it before. I did ask a question previously which led me to xstart and xsetroot and I've been playing around with them for a bit trying to familiarise myself.
I do recognise that it is possible that I have gone about this all wrong, but if we don't try we don't learn.
If anyone knows of any tutorials or documentation that could help or if anyone has any tips I'd be grateful for the pointers.
Cheers
Chris
SOLUTION
Just thought I'd mention that I solved my issue after installing an ubuntu server distro I added xinit via apt-get then added metacity Then I edited the gconf files using gconf-editor then removed the Gnome-panels from /usr/bin However as I may possibly require them in the future I have made a copy of them before I deleted them. Thanks again for the help it was much appreciated.
The window decorations are created/managed by the window manager. If you don't have one running, you won't get window decorations.
Ok... I think I understand what you are asking. Gnome is a "Desktop", and includes with it one of many "Window Managers" called Metacity if I remember correctly. That is the part that adds the title and borders etc. There are many pure window managers(not desktops). A common and popular "Window Manager" is fluxbox although there are many others. Fluxbox does allow you to "undecroate" a window when you launch it. I'm not sure if this is what you are asking. Hopefully it is of some help.

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