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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Did you install wxpython (phoenix) with pip? you have some python stuff in
~/.local.

Maybe just try to clear that out completely, or explicitly set PYTHONPATH
to the site-packages path of your install location?

On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 20:51, Tom Crane <TPCkicad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks for the quick response.  In the past I have been bitten by old
> libraries in non-standard places derailing other application builds but
> can't see anything obviously amiss here.
>
> My $LD_LIBRARY_PATH EV is empty.  I checked where ldconfig looks and could
> not see anything incriminating outside the standard install locations for
> Slackware distros (/usr/lib64 & /lib64).  See
> https://www.mklab.rhul.ac.uk/~tom/kicad/ldconfig-p.txt for the O/P of
> 'ldconfig -p'.
>
> I also tried stracing open* calls in pcbnew.  See
> https://www.mklab.rhul.ac.uk/~tom/kicad/strace-pcbnew2.lis.  Again
> nothing
> jumped out as problematic.  All calls to Python related files seem to
> reference python v.3.8 ones as expected.
>
> The build scripts I am using are release version 'SlackBuild' scripts I've
> hacked to use the git development code.  See
> https://www.mklab.rhul.ac.uk/~tom/kicad/SlackBuild/.  The tom_build.sh
> script calls the main build script kicad-git.SlackBuild.
>
> Thanks
> Tom
>
> On Thu, 5 Nov 2020, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>
> > Are you using a build script? If so please link it.
> > Also check if you partially installed in multiple locations, sucha as
> where ldconfig looks and echo LD_LIBRARY_PATH from your runtime env.
> >
> > Nicl
> >
> > tor. 5. nov. 2020 16.26 skrev Tom Crane <TPCkicad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >       I have been using recent builds for the past few weeks.  They are
> usable
> >       but I have a couple of outstanding problems which I'm not sure how
> to
> >       diagnose/fix.
> >
> >       (1) I have strange behaviours with open Kicad application windows.
> For
> >       example I have a Kicad project, eeschema and pcbnew windows open
> on a
> >       single display. If I let the mouse pointer move from the project
> window to
> >       the eeschema or pcbnew window then input focus immediately
> transfers to
> >       the eeschema or pcbnew window.  This is without touching any mouse
> >       buttons.
> >
> >       Similarly moving the mouse pointer back to the project window has
> no
> >       effect (as it should) but moving it between the eeschema and pcbnew
> >       windows transfers input focus as soon as it enters the other
> window.
> >
> >       There is a similar effect when moving between unrelated (eg. an
> xterm)
> >       windows and either eeschema or pcbnew.  Here the eeschema or
> pcbnew window
> >       does not receive input focus (which remains with the xterm as it
> should)
> >       but the eeschema or pcbnew window does move up the window
> 'stack'.  eg. if
> >       I have an eeschema windows partially covered by a pcbnew window,
> partially
> >       covered by an xterm window which has input focus, then moving the
> mouse
> >       pointer from the xterm to an uncovered section of the eeschema
> window will
> >       cause it to move up the stack and fully cover the pcbnew window.
> >
> >       I get this behaviour with both accelerated and standard graphics
> set.
> >
> >       The above behaviours were observed with the KDE desktop.  I get
> similar
> >       behaviour with my usual window manager (fvwm95) except that the
> window
> >       focus never switches.
> >
> >       I also find that when invoking the DRC check that the DRC Control
> Window
> >       disappears immediately after popping-up and has to be
> 're-acquired' by
> >       clicking the pcbnew tab on the fvwm95 taskbar.  I suspect this is
> another
> >       facet of these window problems.
> >
> >       I don't get this behaviour with any other applications but Kicad
> is the
> >       only wxWidgets/wxPython based one I currently use and so the
> problem could
> >       there at the library level rather than within Kicad on my
> >       distro/Kicad+dependencies build.
> >
> >       None of this is a show-stopper but it is irritating.
> >
> >       Any ideas?
> >
> >
> >       (2) I am unable to use any Kicad scripts.  Clicking on pcbnew -->
> Tools
> >       --> scripting console I get the "Error: unable to create Python
> Console"
> >       pop-up and the following on the console,
> >
> >         Traceback (most recent call last):
> >          File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
> >          File "/usr/share/kicad/scripting/kicad_pyshell/__init__.py",
> line 17, in
> >       <module>
> >            import wx
> >          File "/usr/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/wx/__init__.py", line
> 12, in
> >       <module>
> >            __version__ = wx.__version__.VERSION_STRING
> >       AttributeError: partially initialized module 'wx' has no attribute
> >       '__version__' (most likely due to a circular import)
> >
> >
> >       I built kicad with Python3 support (see below) so it should be
> using that
> >       and not Python2 (for which I don't have a wxWidgets build) but I
> suspect
> >       it might still be calling Python2.
> >
> >       Any ideas?
> >
> >       Many thanks
> >       Tom Crane
> >
> >       Build details:
> >
> >       Application: KiCad
> >       Version: (5.99.0-6755-g3b10d1583), release build
> >       Libraries:
> >            wxWidgets 3.1.4
> >            libcurl/7.70.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1h zlib/1.2.11 brotli/1.0.9
> libidn2/2.3.0
> >       libpsl/0.21.1 (+libidn2/2.3.0) libssh2/1.9.0 nghttp2/1.41.0
> >       Platform: Linux 5.4.6-mklab x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK, ,
> >       Build Info:
> >            Date: Nov 2 2020 16:07:07
> >            wxWidgets: 3.1.4 (wchar_t,wx containers) GTK+ 3.24
> >            Boost: 1.74.0
> >            OCE: 6.9.1
> >            Curl: 7.72.0
> >            ngspice: 30
> >            Compiler: GCC 9.3.0 with C++ ABI 1013
> >       Build settings:
> >            KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
> >            KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
> >            KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
> >            KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
> >            KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
> >            KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
> >            KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
> >            KICAD_SPICE=ON
> >
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