pycharm does not work in Slackware64-14.2 if I use dwm
by FlinchX from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4VQGK)
I've decided to try pycharm and downloaded the last community edition that is version 2019.2.5. I know there is a buildscript for 2019.2.4 on SBo to produce a real Slackware package, but pycharm just runs fine (well, it doesn't for me, but more about that below) from the extracted tarball.
It asks me a few questions like setting up dark/light theme etc, then offers a dialog to create a new project. After I complete all those steps, I get an empty window that stays forever. pycharm never completes to load. It displays some java-esque backtraces in console (since I run the launcher script from a terminal), but it all looks strictly internal and no useful hints about what could be wrong.
I am using dwm-6.1 window manager. Again, I know there's 6.2 on SBo, I dare to assume this is irrelevant for the reason stated below.
I tried the 2019.2.4 from SBo with exactly the same symptoms.
Then I tried the 2019.2.5 version again in a VM with another Linux distro (Debian) and it started fine.
This made me think there's a problem with my particular setup. For testing purposes, I switced from dwm to KDE and pycharm started fine. So it looks like pycharm doesn't play well with dwm for some reason.
What could I try to make it work? Since dwm is quite rudimentary, maybe I should start something additional that's eventually provided by a full featured DE like KDE?
Since both dwm and pycharm are third party software, perhaps a better idea would be to send a bug report to pycharm developers?
It asks me a few questions like setting up dark/light theme etc, then offers a dialog to create a new project. After I complete all those steps, I get an empty window that stays forever. pycharm never completes to load. It displays some java-esque backtraces in console (since I run the launcher script from a terminal), but it all looks strictly internal and no useful hints about what could be wrong.
I am using dwm-6.1 window manager. Again, I know there's 6.2 on SBo, I dare to assume this is irrelevant for the reason stated below.
I tried the 2019.2.4 from SBo with exactly the same symptoms.
Then I tried the 2019.2.5 version again in a VM with another Linux distro (Debian) and it started fine.
This made me think there's a problem with my particular setup. For testing purposes, I switced from dwm to KDE and pycharm started fine. So it looks like pycharm doesn't play well with dwm for some reason.
What could I try to make it work? Since dwm is quite rudimentary, maybe I should start something additional that's eventually provided by a full featured DE like KDE?
Since both dwm and pycharm are third party software, perhaps a better idea would be to send a bug report to pycharm developers?