Subj : Audacity (was GIMP Up)
To   : BARRY MARTIN
From : Mike Powell
Date : Sun Sep 07 2025 11:03:18

>  MP> The issues I was having with Audacity appear to be related to
>  MP> LXQt, but only on my laptop.  If I use gnome flashback instead,
>  MP> the glitch (the key stroke shortcuts quit working in the middle
>  MP> of a project) goes away.
>  MP> With LXQt/IceWM on my other machine, it also seems to work fine.

> That's a good discovery!  I'm wondering if the problem with the key
> shortcuts is possibly due to a small cache?  Cache gets filled with the
> project (before being written to the hard drive) and so FIFO kicks in
> and you loose the shortcut information.

Not sure that'd be the case here.  We are talking about clips that are
maybe 8-10 seconds long where I would only be cutting out some "dead air"
and applying an amplify and a noise reduction effect.  Once I apply one
effect, regardless of which one, the keyboard shortcuts (like cut, paste,
spacebar to play, etc.) stop working.  CTRL-Q to quit keeps working, though.

In past I have had no issue working with such clips, or working with ones
closer to two minutes long.  Only started with the upgrade to 13 and the
new version of audacity that came with it.

I suspect it is some odd thing missing, or set funny, that is causing some
incompatability betweeen audacity and lxqt.  It is not worth
troubleshooting as it works fine with gnome-flashback, and I am fine using
either on that machine.

Mike

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