Hello. So I just got my very first arduino 8) and downloaded the IDE from the site... but it doesn't show any text, at all. Only when I put the mouse overthe icons in the green-ishbar. and in the text editor. But the Menus and the compiler output show nothing, at all! I'm using Manjaro Linux 64-bit if that has anything to do... I guess it does
I tried building from source, but the result is the same. I'm thinking it maybe has to do with the fonts? If that's the case, what's the best possible solution? and if not... what can I do? I have the source so I wouldn't mind making a change somewhere... but I'm no java programmer so don't expect me to know about that.....
Anyway, thanks in advance
So thanks to Peter_n I found a workaround. All I did was run te Windows version with wine. However the windows version won't allow me to upload to serial port, so I had to map (in my mind) the menu I see on the windows version to the invisible menu on the linux version no big deal
When I read the title, I thought you would be using linux. I think I had this once in linux.
The Arduino IDE for Windows has its own subset of Java and doesn't need Java to be installed.
The Arduino IDE for Linux uses the system Java.
You could try to install a different version of Java. I checked the Repositories of archlinux, but it seems there is only one version of Java. Perhaps you could remove all java packages and reinstall a minimal Java set.
Or you could try the newer Beta version of the Arduino IDE.
You could even try to run the Windows version of the Arduino IDE in wine.
Peter_n:
When I read the title, I thought you would be using linux. I think I had this once in linux.
The Arduino IDE for Windows has its own subset of Java and doesn't need Java to be installed.
The Arduino IDE for Linux uses the system Java.
You could try to install a different version of Java. I checked the Repositories of archlinux, but it seems there is only one version of Java. Perhaps you could remove all java packages and reinstall a minimal Java set.
Or you could try the newer Beta version of the Arduino IDE.
You could even try to run the Windows version of the Arduino IDE in wine.
Thanks man. I took your advice on running it over wine. That solves a porblem, now I encountered another '¬¬
To keep you up to date with my adventures (I'm sure you missed a lot of sleep by now wondering what had happened with my arduino coding) I found a couple command like tools while I waited for an answer. They failed miserably. Or I failed, I don't mind blaming others anyway. So I saw your response and, well, I wanted to install wine to play Dwarf Fortress anyway (DF won't run on 64-bit loonix u.u). Now I know what the menu says! Of course through wine... IDK something about serial port being busy. So I try it out in my invisible-menu native version aaaaaaand.... serial ports are greyed out. I panic and search google for an answer. I don't have "rw" permissions on the serial port! sudo chmod 777 ttyACM0 should do the work.... shouldn't it?
No! So I do sudo ./arduino and....
error parsing gtk-icon-sizes string: ' '
Well at least it SEEMS to be the source of the "strings not showing" problem.
I go to serial port and... IT EXISTS! thank you all, thank you.
Anyway, yeah, I tried it out with the infamous blink, and it compiled and uploaded succesfully!
whew, that was tiresome. But I got it working.
Why the verbosity, you ask?
well maybe someone else has the same problem, actually, I should update my original post... anywya, yeah, thank you people
Of course through wine... IDK something about serial port being busy. So I try it out in my invisible-menu native version aaaaaaand.... serial ports are greyed out. I panic and search google for an answer. I don't have "rw" permissions on the serial port! sudo chmod 777 ttyACM0 should do the work.... shouldn't it?