Audacity Forum

Humanguy wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 10, 2020 8:54 pm

a new Audacity shouldn't give me the same problem again, no?

If it's something about your computer that is causing the issue, then reinstalling will make no difference.
Give it a go and let us know what happens.

Thanks very much for your input on this Chris.
At least now we can ask users that are experiencing this kind of issue to check if GTK_IM_MODULE is set to xim, and if it is, then we have a workaround.

Steve

But GTK_IM_MODULE gets set to "xim" in some standard configuration files (under /usr/share/im-config/data) in Xubuntu 20.04. I've just tested this in a clean, fully updated installation of Xubuntu 20.04 64-bit. GTK_IM_MODULE is not set. :shock: So presumably, some other application or ins...

ukeduke wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 10, 2020 6:29 pm

I thought there would be a slide control to boost the right channel.

There's a "Pan" slide control in the panel on the left end of the track: https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/aud ... s.html#pan
If you move it to the right, it lowers the left channel.

monteverdi wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 10, 2020 4:51 pm

I found this solution here: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=517671 (comment 50 and following)

Interesting.
Did you have GTK_IM_MODULE=xim somewhere in your configuration files?
If so, did you put it there to solve some other problem?

In Preferences you can set defaults to "Full", then export. (https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/key ... ences.html)

By default it will install to
\Program Files (x86)\FFmpeg for Audacity\
so your current version (unless it's for an old version of Audacity) will not be affected.

Should I try to keep my recording stage unclipped Don't just "try", ensure that you "succeed". ;) Clipping is when the peaks of the waveform are literally clipped off. Clipping during recording is permanent and cannot be totally fixed (There are effects that can attempt to resto...

I think that I see what you are looking for, my file type option, it was set to FFmpeg compatible files. Yes. That's why Audacity is attempting to import the file with FFmpeg first, and only when that fails (because you don't have a compatible version of FFmpeg) does Audacity switch to importing wi...

monteverdi wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 10, 2020 7:34 pm

Starting Audacity with

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GTK_IM_MODULE= audacity

fixed the problems for me.

Regards,
Chris

How did you work that out Chris? What's the connection between window rendering and language input methods?