Your issues in (1) are by design.
Whether that design is correct or not is another story.
I actually removed that behavior on Windows because Microsoft has a stable api to determine top level window for focus.
Linux does not and GDK used to be but with the fragmented x11/wayland mess, they removed the api call support to determine top level window.
And removing the focus calls instead are going to lead a rabbit hole of things not working like hotkeys.
On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 9:14 PM Tom Crane <TPCkicad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 5 Nov 2020, Nick Østergaard wrote:
Thanks again for the quick follow-up.
> Did you install wxpython (phoenix) with pip?
No.
> you have some python stuff in ~/.local.
I have uploaded the modified SlackBuild scripts I used to build both the
Slackware wxGTK3 package (wxWidgets/Phoenix) and the wxPython4 package at
https://www.mklab.rhul.ac.uk/~tom/kicad/SlackBuild/ in case the problem
lies with either.
>
> Maybe just try to clear that out completely, or explicitly set PYTHONPATH to the site-packages path of your install location?
Just tried removing ~/.local and then,
export PYTHONPATH=/usr/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/
In both cases the scripting console error remains the same.
Thanks
Tom.
>
> 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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