Rendering issue on track list [SOLVED]

Audacity Help Forum GNU/Linux
1

I’m using Archlinux I3 gaps windows manager, Audacity v2.3.3 from Arch community repo.

Everything seems to work but track list is not rendering correctly.
By ‘not rendering correctly’ I mean, It does not redraw contents when it’s supposed to, like when I scale tracks, I drag other window over there, etc.
I attached screen capture for reference.

Log output: https://pastebin.com/feQcnLnz

Thanks for working on this great software, I hope it gets fixed soon :sunglasses:
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2

Are you using Wayland? If so, then as a test, try logging into an Xorg session.

3

No, I’m using Xorg.

4

This looks like it’s an incompatibility between WxWidgets and i3 (see issues #539 and #2395 on https://github.com/i3/i3)

Which version of WxWidgets has Audacity been built with? Is it using gtk2 or gtk3?
The minimum required version for Audacity is wx3.0 the recommended version is wx3.1.1 with gtk2.

5

I’m using Archlinux prebuilt binary so I can’t tell exact version.
But from package dependency list (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/audacity/)
It looks like it has been built with wxgtk3 and gtk3. I will try building development version with gtk2.

6

You are right, I built development version with wxgtk2, and it works fine.
What I did is installing wxgtk2 package and modifying PKGBUILD from AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/audacity-git/)

build() {
  cd "$srcdir/$_pkgname"
  WX_CONFIG=wx-config-gtk3 ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-libsamplerate
  make
}

to

build() {
  cd "$srcdir/$_pkgname"
  WX_CONFIG=wx-config ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-libsamplerate
  make
}

(just in case someone else bumps here for same issue)

7

Thanks for getting back to us with this information.
I’ll close this topic as “solved” so that it is easier for others to find.

Update: This issue has also been logged on the Audacity bug tracker.