Goldendict-ng works on one but not the other. .

[rich52]

Running goldendict on two different machines. The desktop is showing me this mess. I’m running Kde with the latest versions. Is this a graphics card issue? I’m using Plasma with Wayland on this system. The other system is a mini-pc with integrated AMD graphics. That too is running the latest KDE with Plasma and it works. Any idea’s? I’m not sure where to start on this one.

Rich

[cscs]

How was it installed?
Is it a SNAP?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Snap#Text_unreadable

[Bink]

If looks like a font and/or icon issue @rich52

You could always try an X11 session, just to rule that out?

[Bink]

Good point. Have both systems installed the same package (or a Snap )?

There are three options in the AUR.

• goldendict-ng
• goldendict-ng-git
• goldendict-ng-appimage

[rich52]

Downloaded via pacseek ‘goldendict-ng git’ . installed and this was the end result.

Rich

[Bink]

Perhaps try goldendict-ng instead?

-git versions are going to have their issues, and depending on when it was installed, the two systems may have built against different revisions.

[Moonbase59]

I wanted to install it anyway, so I gave goldendict-ng a quick spin on EOS/Cinnamon: No errors on install.

German hunspell morphology suggests I want a Rendezvous with EndeavourOS, go figure!

$ pacman -Qs goldendict
local/goldendict-ng 25.5.0-1
    The Next Generation GoldenDict (supports Qt WebEngine & Qt6)

[rich52]

Looks like it’s working today. . . . no messed up text screen. I’m using the git version. Can’t explain how or what happened or if any file updated today had any influence on the software app. The other computer has the same setting and it was working fine from the get go. Problem solved. . . . in a manner of speaking. . .

Rich

[Moonbase59]

Both the -git and -appimage versions are rather old, I wouldn’t use them. This often happens in the AUR, always worth checking.

$ yay -Ss goldendict-ng
aur/goldendict-ng-appimage 23.09.29-1 (+0 0.00) 
    Feature-rich dictionary lookup program supporting multiple dictionary formats.
aur/goldendict-ng-git 24.11.0.r5693.15207cf4-1 (+32 0.00) 
    The next generation GoldenDict (Supports Qt WebEngine & Qt6).
aur/goldendict-ng 25.5.0-1 (+24 1.88) (Installiert)
    The Next Generation GoldenDict (supports Qt WebEngine & Qt6)

[rich52]

I noticed a QT6 update today. . . . thanks for you information. . . much appreciated.

Rich;)

[Bink]

For -git versions, the AUR package needs no update unless dependencies or build process has changed, and so may not be updated for years, and yet still be useful as a “current” package, because when installed, it’ll still be pulling from the latest Git revision at that moment.

The onus is on the user to manually update a -git package when they feel inclined.

[cscs]

@Moonbase59

Both the -git and -appimage versions are rather old, I wouldn’t use them.

-git packages frequently have old looking versions because they are always built from source.. the version on the AUR package listing doesnt really mean much except when the PKGBUILD/assets were last manually updated.

… and it seems @Bink already explained this above.

@rich52

Looks like it’s working today.

If it was an AUR package did it need/get a rebuild?

[Moonbase59]

Thanks for the clarification, @Bink & @cscs, wasn’t really aware of that!