Had a few issues and generally the answer has been upgrading to dev, so now I’m in 6.0 . . . more or less OK, except if I want to add a citation to a sub group, the item will load at the top of the page, but sometimes it will be “highlighted” and sometimes not . . . it is intermittent. The item will be added to the subgroup, but in previous distros the newly added citation will stay highlighted, so it’s clear what we are adding to the sub-group . . . in this case, less clear.
The other, in a sense, more nagging problem is when right-clicking on the sub-group line the drop down menu will load, but then clicking on “add selected item to group” will add it, but then the drop down menu doesn’t go away, it hangs there, making it difficult to confirm that it was added . . . . I have to click somewhere else to get it to go away. Any way to fix that problem?
I don’t have a solution, but I can reproduce the problem. The entry remained highlighted for me, but the persistent menu was inconsistent. The first time I added the entry to a subgroup, it worked normally. After that, the menu stayed open each time. Clicking elsewhere or pressing Esc makes the menu disappear. The menu also stays open after removing entries from a subgroup.
JabRef 100.0.0
Linux 6.11.8-1-default amd64
Java 23.0.1
JavaFX 23.0.1+4
Thanks for looking into it . . . thanks for the “pressing esc” idea . . . I did find the “clicking elsewhere” option.
It’s not a show-stopper, just an inconvenience . . . in my case on the new citation added, it does consistently load on the top line, but the first few citations does not “highlight” . . . but after adding a few new items then it will . . . .
Usually running Pop_OS . . . which is still a stack on Jammy . . . so far from “bleeding edge” kernel and / . . . .
openSUSE Tumbleweed for me, and running JabRef from source, so you live with old bugs while I live with young ones, but it seems that the sticky menu is indiscriminate.
Sluggish groups and disorientation have been persistent or recurring difficulties for me. Overall, groups are working much better now than just a few months ago, so I have stuck with the development version and started participating more in reporting the (mostly minor) bugs that come with the changes.
Ironically, improvements sometimes keep me guessing, because I am not always entirely conscious of what changed and when. Just the same, I think row highlighting and other ways to maintain orientation could benefit from some more attention. It might be nice to pin entries to the top, open separate windows, or simply keep more entries visible by positioning the editor on the right, for example.
Ah, the rolling Tumbleweed . . . yep . . . have TW installed on my desktop, does my grub handling for the multi-boot situation . . . . I like having the latest bleeding edge stuff . . . overall a very good system with great support from the forum. Lately it has been running well, but sometimes it is more “unstable” than my Sid install . . . . : - )
Hmm . . . the problems have expanded now in 6.0 . . . today is citation management day, and today trying to add a citation to a group via right click the “add selection to group” in the drop down menu would not highlight or work, multiple tries . . . and then finally it would work.
Tried to quit the app and try again, problem remains . . . often times I want to add a citation to several groups, so this is now “inconvenient” to the workflow . . . .
Historically when there have been problems the answer has been to go to the newest iteration, I checked what I had for “main builds” . . . seems like 6.0 is the latest edition???
Problem s with adding citations into groups continues to be “interruptive” to the work flow, requiring many, many right-clicks to get an operational “add to group” . . . then sometimes, less often, working properly . . . making JR “cumbersome” rather than “intuitive” for the user.
I would hope that a newer dev version might have a fix for this problem??? So far the problems continue more or less unabated or unrestricted . . . .
Maybe. Don’t know if I could hold a cell phone, while right-clicking on the group listing and showing the multiple clicks to get a citation added to it.
The problem has morphed a bit from the original subject line of this thread, although that drop down menu hanging around problem is still happening, that is less of a problem than the current failure to add a citation into the group with a single mouse click . . . problem.
I’ll see if I can come up with some evidence. I think I might have already tried to screenshot it, but moving to the screenshot app seemed to clear the dropdown menu, so nothing could be grabbed???
Got a cell video of multiple tries of right-clicking to add to group, that failed. It is 68MB mp4??? file that isn’t showing up when I click on the upload symbol here in the forum post as an option from within the Downloads directory??? I can see it when I navi to the Downloads directory, but it isn’t in the list of items that can be uploaded . . . due to size??
I had to upload it to my Google Drive folder to get it from my cell to my laptop . . . so do I have to share it somehow to this forum via hyperlink option??? Not sure if I want to publicly post my Drive location??? Is there a work around to getting videos uploaded here?
It’s not a solution to the problem, but maybe as a workaround for the time being, you could drag and drop entries to a group instead of trying to use the right-click menu?
OK, thanks for the reminder on that. I did give that a try . . . and it “worked” . . . but then it seemed to “freeze” the scrolling to the next group for a few seconds . . . and then I could scroll down.
This general problem is intermittent . . . but consistent enough to be a problem. After I took the video shot, where I tried three or four times to add a citation, and then it worked; I tried another citation and maybe ten times and still failed to add to a group.
I often add a citation to multiple groups, I’m not just adding one citation to one group and then moving on. That practice hasn’t changed since I got into Jabref, but the problem seems to be getting worse in 6.0 . . . or in the more recent iterations.
I’ll look around for some “dropbox” type service . . . jammed at work right now.
Other thought, Pop_OS is still running an older kernel stack . . . is it 6.5 now?? Not sure if Jabref is leaving that kernel in the dust??
Alrighty . . . I have a proton account, so I used their Drive to upload the video, set to expire in one week, 1/14 . . . pasword is the 6 letter name of the app in lower case.
OK, the power was off here in LA for 22 hours yesterday, so I just got the time to download your “merged” update??? I used GDebi to try to install the downloaded .deb file, which is what I have used previously and it errored out. “Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libasound2t64.”
Looking at the >Lintian Output" tab it shows a huge amount of “E” lines, finishing with 3 “W” lines:
W: jabref: executable-not-elf-or-script opt/jabref/lib/runtime/bin/JabRef.bat
W: jabref: jar-not-in-usr-share opt/jabref/lib/runtime/lib/jrt-fs.jar
W: jabref: synopsis-too-long
Lintian finished with exit status 0
Happy to try again . . . this one doesn’t seem to be flying with Pop_OS! at the moment.
@esteelpaz Oh dear. I hope you are in a safe area. Horrible fire.
Can you please try again from that link? I downgraded the ubuntu version we use to build the deb version (apparently github updated their runner images)
Thanks, yep, I’m on the “flats” of the basin, it’s the hill/mountainous areas that get the high speed winds that do catastrophic damage in a short period.
So, I went to the link above, I’m picking the only .deb file, the amd64.deb file . . . clicking on the link it shows a few updated files to 1/10, but the deb file was still showing 1/8 . . . . I downloaded it and Gdebi finds the same error . . . . Don’t know if that file got updated there??
