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Known Issues and Solutions

bubnikv edited this page Mar 19, 2019 · 6 revisions

This document describes known problems that people ran into when running Slic3r and provides a way to solve them.

Are you color blind?

Then you can set some colors to your liking. https://github.com/prusa3d/Slic3r/issues/1986#issuecomment-474235239

Running post processing perl scripts on Windows

If you see the following error message: post processing script failed you may need to move your perl script from the system directory (c:) into your user directory, see #975.

Ubuntu 16.04

Clicking on menu items hangs page

Symptom

Page is no longer responding after clicking on the left side menu (e.g. Layers, Infill, Skirt, Support, etc.)

Solution

Enable legacy mode for scrolling. For this you need to:

  1. Install Unity Tweak Tool. Use sudo apt-get install unity-tweak-tool
  2. Launch Unity Tweak Tool from Unity’s Dash menu or command line
  3. Set scrollbars to "Legacy"

Ubuntu 18.04

Clicking on menu items hangs page

Symptom

Page is no longer responding after clicking on the left side menu (e.g. Layers, Infill, Skirt, Support, etc.)

Solution (workaround)

Enable legacy mode for scrolling. For this you need to open a terminal and enter:

gsettings set com.canonical.desktop.interface scrollbar-mode normal

Linux specific

ibus incompatibility

If you have issues with weird behavior of keyboard input on Linux, please make sure you are not having the ibus tool running. It is known to cause issues with wxWidgets, see the discussion at kicad list and our github issue #1943.