Open Engineering on Linux

The .deb, AppImage and archive are built on Ubuntu 22.04, so they need glibc 2.35 or newer.

OpenDraft opens these libraries when it starts, so a bare system must have them. Desktop installations almost always do. On Debian, Ubuntu and Mint:

libgl1-mesa-dri libegl1 libgl1 libx11-6 libx11-xcb1 libxcb1 libxcursor1 libxi6
libxkbcommon0 libxkbcommon-x11-0 libwayland-client0 libwayland-cursor0 libwayland-egl1

• File dialogs (Open, Save As) need xdg-desktop-portal with a backend for your desktop (xdg-desktop-portal-gtk, -kde, -gnome…), or zenity. Every mainstream desktop already has a portal.
• Package lists for Fedora, Arch and openSUSE are in the Linux notes in the repository.

Every change is built once on Ubuntu 22.04, and that same program is run on the distributions below. On X11 the test starts the real program, opens a drawing, checks the screen is drawn, types L, clicks twice and Enter to draw a line, undoes it with Ctrl+Z, and checks the assistant connection. On Wayland it starts, draws, opens the drawing and closes cleanly. The release workflow also installs the .deb on a bare Ubuntu 22.04 and runs the same checks against it, and starts the AppImage there.

These runs use a virtual display with software rendering. They do not cover real GPUs, desktop environments or physical printers.

• Real graphics hardware: drivers, GPUs, multiple monitors and variable refresh.
• Real desktop environments. GNOME and KDE have their own window handling and decorations.
• Keyboard and mouse on Wayland, real file dialogs, the clipboard, drag and drop and input methods.
• Printing to paper. The CUPS backend is tested against a cups-pdf queue on Ubuntu 22.04. No real printer or its driver has been tried.
• Pixel-for-pixel appearance. The tests check that the screen is drawn, not that it matches a reference image.

• It does not start, or closes at once. Run it from a terminal and read the last line. If graphics fail, install the Mesa packages above, or try LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 opendraft.
• Open or Save As does nothing. Install xdg-desktop-portal and a backend for your desktop, or zenity. Meanwhile, start it with a file name: opendraft drawing.dxf.
• The window is the wrong size on a high-resolution screen. On X11 force a scale: WINIT_X11_SCALE_FACTOR=1.5 opendraft.
• To force X11 in a Wayland session: env -u WAYLAND_DISPLAY opendraft. To force Wayland: env -u DISPLAY opendraft.
• Settings, recent files, autosave copies and crash.log live in ~/.local/share/opendraft. Delete the folder to start afresh.

Please include your distribution and version, X11 or Wayland (echo $XDG_SESSION_TYPE), your desktop environment, your graphics hardware or “virtual machine”, how you installed OpenDraft, what you did, what you expected and what happened. Add the terminal output if you started it from a terminal, and crash.log if there is one. A screenshot helps.