Hi, I'm in the process of moving some of my development workover to some virtual machines. As a consequence I am running OpenSCAD via a x-windows server (Xming). The VM is running Ubuntu 14.04 and I've installed OpenSCAD 2015.03-1. When OpenSCAD is run on the Ubuntu desktop the File menu appears at the top of the screen. From here I can export to STL. However, when I run OpenSCAD over x-windows I don't get the top menu and the only way I export to STL is to enable the editor pane, where there is button. I would rather not have the editor window open as I'm using an external editor. Would it be possible to add or move the 'Export to STL' button to the console pane? Regards, Ian. -- View this message in context: http://forum.openscad.org/Running-OpenSCAD-with-Xwindows-tp13639.html Sent from the OpenSCAD mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

On 08/29/2015 05:00 PM, IanW wrote: > However, when I run OpenSCAD over x-windows I don't get the top menu and the > only way I export to STL is to enable the editor pane, where there is > button. I would rather not have the editor window open as I'm using an > external editor. > > Would it be possible to add or move the 'Export to STL' button to the > console pane? > This is probably the Ubuntu bug again. Ubuntu messes with the normal menus. Maybe the procedure from the FAQ helps to workaround the issue: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/FAQ#I.27m_not_getting_any_menubar_when_running_OpenSCAD_in_Ubuntu.2C_how_can_I_get_it_back.3F ciao, Torsten.

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015, at 11:11 AM, Torsten Paul wrote: > On 08/29/2015 05:00 PM, IanW wrote: > > However, when I run OpenSCAD over x-windows I don't get the top menu and the > > only way I export to STL is to enable the editor pane, where there is > > button. I would rather not have the editor window open as I'm using an > > external editor. > > > > Would it be possible to add or move the 'Export to STL' button to the > > console pane? > > > This is probably the Ubuntu bug again. Ubuntu messes with the normal > menus. > > Maybe the procedure from the FAQ helps to workaround the issue: > > https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/FAQ#I.27m_not_getting_any_menubar_when_running_OpenSCAD_in_Ubuntu.2C_how_can_I_get_it_back.3F > > ciao, > Torsten. > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > Discuss@lists.openscad.org > http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org If that doesn't work then I would try using a different window manager on the ubuntu system, like XFCE. Similar to what these folks did http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2190722 -- don bright hmbright@fastmail.fm

Hi Torsten, Thank you very much for the link. Using QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME= openscad works.. So I will use that for now. I'm not comfortable with removing the appmenu-qt5 package as I'm not sure what other side effects there may be. Regards, Ian On 29/08/2015 17:11, Torsten Paul wrote: > On 08/29/2015 05:00 PM, IanW wrote: >> However, when I run OpenSCAD over x-windows I don't get the top menu and the >> only way I export to STL is to enable the editor pane, where there is >> button. I would rather not have the editor window open as I'm using an >> external editor. >> >> Would it be possible to add or move the 'Export to STL' button to the >> console pane? >> > This is probably the Ubuntu bug again. Ubuntu messes with the normal menus. > > Maybe the procedure from the FAQ helps to workaround the issue: > > https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/OpenSCAD_User_Manual/FAQ#I.27m_not_getting_any_menubar_when_running_OpenSCAD_in_Ubuntu.2C_how_can_I_get_it_back.3F > > ciao, > Torsten. > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenSCAD mailing list > Discuss@lists.openscad.org > http://lists.openscad.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.openscad.org