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LTspice and Linux
orbanp:
Hello Everyone,
I moved over to Linux and installed LTspiceXVII. It works more or less.
Not working fully is the transistor selection, there is no menu bar in the selection window, the entries can not be sorted.
Not working is the displaying of power dissipation curves in the Waveform Viewer. When pressing the "alt" key over a component in the schematics window the thermometer appears but no curve is displayed in the Waveform Viewer window.
In the help section only the "Contents" tab is displayed, the tabs for the topics and search (or whatever they are called) are missing.
There probably are other things that does not fully work, this is just after some brief use/testing.
Linux is Ubuntu 18.04 with KDE Plasma 5.12.9 front-end (Kubuntu).LTspice is the latest build, 64-bit version.The LTspice Wine environment is set up with the help of PlayOnLinux (v. 4.3.4).LTspice has its own prefix, or virtual drive, and Wine version is 4.21.The Ltspice user group on groups.io mentions that LTspice has been tested under wine for some time, but they do not give any specifics.It would be nice if LTspice worked as under Windows.
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks, Peter
Zero999:
--- Quote from: orbanp on February 10, 2020, 05:04:52 pm ---Hello Everyone,
I moved over to Linux and installed LTspiceXVII. It works more or less.
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Yes, it mostly works. Fortunately, there are workarounds for most issues.
--- Quote ---Not working fully is the transistor selection, there is no menu bar in the selection window, the entries can not be sorted.
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Try resizing the window.
--- Quote ---Not working is the displaying of power dissipation curves in the Waveform Viewer. When pressing the "alt" key over a component in the schematics window the thermometer appears but no curve is displayed in the Waveform Viewer window.
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Use both Alt keys, or Windows key+left Alt.
--- Quote ---In the help section only the "Contents" tab is displayed, the tabs for the topics and search (or whatever they are called) are missing.
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I believe that feature isn't implemented by WINE's Windows help file viewer. You might be able to download a copy of Windows help from somewhere, but I've never bothered. I normally Google most things, rather than using the help file.
--- Quote ---There probably are other things that does not fully work, this is just after some brief use/testing.
Linux is Ubuntu 18.04 with KDE Plasma 5.12.9 front-end (Kubuntu).LTspice is the latest build, 64-bit version.The LTspice Wine environment is set up with the help of PlayOnLinux (v. 4.3.4).LTspice has its own prefix, or virtual drive, and Wine version is 4.21.The Ltspice user group on groups.io mentions that LTspice has been tested under wine for some time, but they do not give any specifics.It would be nice if LTspice worked as under Windows.
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks, Peter
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Interestingly, despite these issues, I've found LTSpice crashes less often, under WINE, than Windows 10.
orbanp:
Many thanks for the tips!
Resizing the window and using both "Windows" and "Alt" key works!
I am trying to avoid W10. I moved to Linux from WXP, it is now a dual-boot system.Interestingly LTspice is not much faster (actually very little) despite that LTspiceXVII, Linux, and Wine makes use of the other CPU cores as well. I used LTspice IV on WXP and never had any problem with crashing.
Thanks again for the help!
Regards, Peter
magic:
You may try version IV, it's still available.
Zero999:
I doubt there will be a significant speed difference between using LTSpice under WINE vs Windows. Some things will be slower, others faster.
Regarding the help file: I've Googled and there are other non-Windows viewers for .CHM files, which are probably better than WINE's built-in viewer.
The older IV version had similar issues, which are due to WINE, rather than LTSpice.
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