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I've got a weird one, hope I can dig up some answers!
The only laptop I have in my house with a good battery still has spinning rust for data storage. Windows 10 is so full of bloat the 4GB of ram makes it a painful experience to use.
I spun up a Debian install on it and the most minimal GUI interface possible because the thing just needs to serve basically this one purpose.
I then used apt to install Java. The earliest version they package for it is open jre 11, so I installed that with the i386 flag to ensure I got the 32 bit packages, and romraider successfully installs (not even elevated to root, which may be an important detail later) and is launchable from the dmenu shortcut.
So far, so good, right?
Well, the logger loads and the dialog pops up and complains about not having the logger defs.. which is to be expected. This is where the problems begin, because the logger window is basically blank. Its kinda 2 panels, a lighter and a darker side if you will. There is no context menus, buttons or ui elements to interact with. I thought maybe because of my minimal window manager it showed this way, so I install gnome-session. No different.
So I grab the oracle java 8 runtime tar and install that, change java to that and try again. First the install fails if I'm not elevated, so I elevate to root and it installs in /usr/default. Now, no dmenu shortcut even after a restart, so I try again as root, this time selecting my home folder as the install location.
still no dice on the dmenu shortcut that way.. so I try to run the command from the .desktop shortcut and get a warning dialog box that says "cannot find bundle for base name com.RomRaider.EcuExec, locale en_CA"
so, I try and change my OS locale to en_US. same dialog, but complains about the same thing but this time for US.
then, I try to change it to just EN. no luck with that.
then, I try changing the locale of java using command line flag. same error, no matter what I try, but corresponds to the selected locale instead.
I'm out of ideas now, windows simply does not work for my needs, and going back to an older, insecure or outdated OS is also not an option for me.
Another detail that may or may not be important is I uninstalled java 11 packages, then when I tried to launch (from terminal) I got some errors about missing libraries (which would have been removed with "apt autoremove", so I manually installed the missing packages, got past that, but then get the other dialog.
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