• Moebius ANSI editor for Linux

    From Nightfox@21:1/137 to All on Thursday, September 15, 2022 09:07:32
    Does anyone here use Moebius (ANSI editor) for Linux?

    I had Linux Mint 20.3 installed on my BBS PC and had used Moebius on it to edit some ANSI screens for my BBS. Recently I updated to Linux Mint 21, and all has been good so far, but today I tried installing Moebius (I used the same .deb package I had used for Mint 20.3), but when I run Moebius from that, it crashes. I then tried downloading the Moebius source code - It seems to be a Node.js app, and as per the readme, I ran the "npm install" and "npm start", but when it's starting up, it says "GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye." and it quits. My BBS PC has an Nvidia 1060 and I have the Nvidia driver installed. At the time I wasn't using the GPU for anything.

    I've downloaded PabloDraw for Linux too, but I remember Moebius being a fairly good ANSI editor for Linux.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to All on Thursday, September 15, 2022 09:24:24
    Re: Moebius ANSI editor for Linux
    By: Nightfox to All on Thu Sep 15 2022 09:07 am

    install" and "npm start", but when it's starting up, it says "GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye." and it quits.

    I found a solution for this. Moebius uses electron to run it, and there's a command-line parameter for electron, --in-process-gpu which allowed it to run. One thing to note is I'm using my BBS PC via VNC, so perhaps that has something to do with it.

    I found the solution here:

    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68874940/gpu-process-isnt-usable-goodbye

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  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to Nightfox on Thursday, September 15, 2022 13:00:45

    Twas Thursday, September 15th when Nightfox said...
    Does anyone here use Moebius (ANSI editor) for Linux?

    I use Moebius under Elementary OS, which is essentially Ubuntu under the covers -- I always run from the Node.js source.

    You might try Googling that error along with "Electron" which is how the app is built. There may be some clues...


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  • From NuSkooler@21:1/121 to Nightfox on Thursday, September 15, 2022 13:01:09

    Twas Thursday, September 15th when Nightfox said...
    I found a solution for this. Moebius uses electron to run it, and there's a command-line parameter for electron, --in-process-gpu which

    lol, I was too late in my last message. Glad you got it working :D


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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to NuSkooler on Thursday, September 15, 2022 12:46:03
    Re: RE: Moebius ANSI editor for Linux
    By: NuSkooler to Nightfox on Thu Sep 15 2022 01:01 pm

    I found a solution for this. Moebius uses electron to run it, and
    there's a command-line parameter for electron, --in-process-gpu
    which

    lol, I was too late in my last message. Glad you got it working :D

    Yeah, I'm not really familiar with Electron at all, and at first I thought the error was specific to Moebius. But I saw it came from Electron..

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  • From paulie420@21:2/150 to Nightfox on Thursday, September 15, 2022 16:40:56
    I had Linux Mint 20.3 installed on my BBS PC and had used Moebius on it
    to edit some ANSI screens for my BBS. Recently I updated to Linux Mint 21, and all has been good so far, but today I tried installing Moebius
    (I used the same .deb package I had used for Mint 20.3), but when I run Moebius from that, it crashes. I then tried downloading the Moebius source code - It seems to be a Node.js app, and as per the readme, I ran the "npm install" and "npm start", but when it's starting up, it says
    "GPU process isn't usable. Goodbye." and it quits. My BBS PC has an Nvidia 1060 and I have the Nvidia driver installed. At the time I wasn't using the GPU for anything.

    I just ran into this issue on Arch, and found a work-around that MIGHT help you. On the Moebius github page, you can download a .DEB or .RPM format of the install - can't you install one of those under Mint? Or, use a helper program to install one of them that your system doesn't natively support?



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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to paulie420 on Thursday, September 15, 2022 20:13:24
    Re: Re: Moebius ANSI editor for Linux
    By: paulie420 to Nightfox on Thu Sep 15 2022 04:40 pm

    I just ran into this issue on Arch, and found a work-around that MIGHT help you. On the Moebius github page, you can download a .DEB or .RPM format of the install - can't you install one of those under Mint? Or, use a helper program to install one of them that your system doesn't natively support?

    The .deb package was what I tried first, and Moebius crashed when I ran that version.

    But I found a fix. There's a --in-process-gpu command-line option that you can pass to electron, which allowed Moebius to run.

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  • From Charles Blackburn@21:1/221 to Nightfox on Friday, September 16, 2022 21:15:44
    Re: Moebius ANSI editor for Linux
    By: Nightfox to All on Thu Sep 15 2022 09:24:24


    I found a solution for this. Moebius uses electron to run it, and there's a command-line parameter for electron,
    --in-process-gpu which allowed it to run. One thing to note is I'm using my BBS PC via VNC, so perhaps that has something to
    do with it.

    sounds like it's not likging the VNC virtual video adapter.

    i'm assuming it's an X11 program? if it is, have you tried something like MobaXterm? That has a built in X11 server and can run stuff over an SSH tunnel.

    I do it all the time.

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  • From Nightfox@21:1/137 to Charles Blackburn on Friday, September 16, 2022 21:24:36
    Re: Moebius ANSI editor for Linux
    By: Charles Blackburn to Nightfox on Fri Sep 16 2022 09:15 pm

    I found a solution for this. Moebius uses electron to run it, and
    there's a command-line parameter for electron, --in-process-gpu
    which allowed it to run. One thing to note is I'm using my BBS PC
    via VNC, so perhaps that has something to do with it.

    sounds like it's not likging the VNC virtual video adapter.

    i'm assuming it's an X11 program? if it is, have you tried something like MobaXterm? That has a built in X11 server and can run stuff over an SSH tunnel.

    I do it all the time.

    I wondered if it had something to do with VNC. But the solution I found lets me use it over VNC.

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  • From Charles Blackburn@21:1/221 to Nightfox on Saturday, September 17, 2022 08:25:38
    Re: Moebius ANSI editor for Linux
    By: Nightfox to Charles Blackburn on Fri Sep 16 2022 21:24:36

    I found a solution for this. Moebius uses electron to run it, and
    there's a command-line parameter for electron, --in-process-gpu
    which allowed it to run. One thing to note is I'm using my BBS PC
    via VNC, so perhaps that has something to do with it.
    sounds like it's not likging the VNC virtual video adapter.
    I wondered if it had something to do with VNC. But the solution I found lets me use it over VNC.


    Yea. I gues si'm old school in that i like my old insecure unencrypted (outside of ssh) protocols LOL

    regards
    Charles Blackburn
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