Kinetis Design Studio crashes on Kubuntu 14.04

On Kubuntu 14.04, Kinetis Design Studio (KDS) could be started, but when I tried to create a new project, it’d crash with the following message displayed in the terminal: KDS is a Eclipse-based IDE. So I suspect the issue is related to Eclipse IDE itself. (I can’t confirm this as I’m not running the Eclipse IDE on this machine. I know I could have just downloaded and test it; but I don’t have time....

August 3, 2015 · 2 min · 263 words · kenno

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module “overlay-scrollbar”

On Ubuntu distro, if you see the error message in console as the following whenever you run a Gnome-based applications, chances are you had ‘overlay-scrollbar’ package previously installed but now removed. However, the configuration file which came with that package remained on your system. We can verify this with this command: rc : remove but config file still presents. On my Ubuntu desktop, this config file resides at /etc/X11/Xsession.d/81overlay-scrollbar. To correct this problem, we can purge ‘overlay-scrollbar’ package with this command:...

December 9, 2014 · 1 min · 105 words · kenno